Gn0101 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.  
Gn0102 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.  
Gn0103 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.  
Gn0104 And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.  
Gn0105 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.  
Gn0106 And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”  
Gn0107 And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so.  
Gn0108 And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.  
Gn0109 And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.  
Gn0110 God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.  
Gn0111 And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so.  
Gn0112 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.  
Gn0113 And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.  
Gn0114 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years,  
Gn0115 and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so.  
Gn0116 And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars.  
Gn0117 And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth,  
Gn0118 to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.  
Gn0119 And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.  
Gn0120 And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.”  
Gn0121 So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.  
Gn0122 And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”  
Gn0123 And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.  
Gn0124 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.  
Gn0125 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.  
Gn0126 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”  
Gn0127 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.  
Gn0128 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”  
Gn0129 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.  
Gn0130 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.  
Gn0131 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.  
Gn0201 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.  
Gn0202 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.  
Gn0203 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.  
Gn0204 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.  
Gn0205 When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground,  
Gn0206 and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—  
Gn0207 then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.  
Gn0208 And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.  
Gn0209 And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  
Gn0210 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers.  
Gn0211 The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.  
Gn0212 And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.  
Gn0213 The name of the second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush.  
Gn0214 And the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.  
Gn0215 The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.  
Gn0216 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,  
Gn0217 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”  
Gn0218 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”  
Gn0219 Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.  
Gn0220 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.  
Gn0221 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.  
Gn0222 And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.  
Gn0223 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”  
Gn0224 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.  
Gn0225 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.  
Gn0301 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”  
Gn0302 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,  
Gn0303 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”  
Gn0304 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.  
Gn0305 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”  
Gn0306 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.  
Gn0307 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.  
Gn0308 And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.  
Gn0309 But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”  
Gn0310 And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”  
Gn0311 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”  
Gn0312 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”  
Gn0313 Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”  
Gn0314 The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.  
Gn0315 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”  
Gn0316 To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”  
Gn0317 And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;  
Gn0318 thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.  
Gn0319 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”  
Gn0320 The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.  
Gn0321 And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.  
Gn0322 Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”  
Gn0323 therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.  
Gn0324 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.  
Gn0401 Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the LORD.”  
Gn0402 And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.  
Gn0403 In the course of time Cain brought to the LORD an offering of the fruit of the ground,  
Gn0404 and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and his offering,  
Gn0405 but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.  
Gn0406 The LORD said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?  
Gn0407 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is contrary to you, but you must rule over it.”  
Gn0408 Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.  
Gn0409 Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?”  
Gn0410 And the LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground.  
Gn0411 And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.  
Gn0412 When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”  
Gn0413 Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.  
Gn0414 Behold, you have driven me today away from the ground, and from your face I shall be hidden. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”  
Gn0415 Then the LORD said to him, “Not so! If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” And the LORD put a mark on Cain, lest any who found him should attack him.  
Gn0416 Then Cain went away from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.  
Gn0417 Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.  
Gn0418 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.  
Gn0419 And Lamech took two wives. The name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.  
Gn0420 Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.  
Gn0421 His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.  
Gn0422 Zillah also bore Tubal-cain; he was the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron. The sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.  
Gn0423 Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say: I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.  
Gn0424 If Cain’s revenge is sevenfold, then Lamech’s is seventy-sevenfold.”  
Gn0425 And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and called his name Seth, for she said, “God has appointed for me another offspring instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”  
Gn0426 To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the LORD.  
Gn0501 This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.  
Gn0502 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.  
Gn0503 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.  
Gn0504 The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters.  
Gn0505 Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.  
Gn0506 When Seth had lived 105 years, he fathered Enosh.  
Gn0507 Seth lived after he fathered Enosh 807 years and had other sons and daughters.  
Gn0508 Thus all the days of Seth were 912 years, and he died.  
Gn0509 When Enosh had lived 90 years, he fathered Kenan.  
Gn0510 Enosh lived after he fathered Kenan 815 years and had other sons and daughters.  
Gn0511 Thus all the days of Enosh were 905 years, and he died.  
Gn0512 When Kenan had lived 70 years, he fathered Mahalalel.  
Gn0513 Kenan lived after he fathered Mahalalel 840 years and had other sons and daughters.  
Gn0514 Thus all the days of Kenan were 910 years, and he died.  
Gn0515 When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he fathered Jared.  
Gn0516 Mahalalel lived after he fathered Jared 830 years and had other sons and daughters.  
Gn0517 Thus all the days of Mahalalel were 895 years, and he died.  
Gn0518 When Jared had lived 162 years, he fathered Enoch.  
Gn0519 Jared lived after he fathered Enoch 800 years and had other sons and daughters.  
Gn0520 Thus all the days of Jared were 962 years, and he died.  
Gn0521 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah.  
Gn0522 Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.  
Gn0523 Thus all the days of Enoch were 365 years.  
Gn0524 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.  
Gn0525 When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he fathered Lamech.  
Gn0526 Methuselah lived after he fathered Lamech 782 years and had other sons and daughters.  
Gn0527 Thus all the days of Methuselah were 969 years, and he died.  
Gn0528 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he fathered a son  
Gn0529 and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground that the LORD has cursed, this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.”  
Gn0530 Lamech lived after he fathered Noah 595 years and had other sons and daughters.  
Gn0531 Thus all the days of Lamech were 777 years, and he died.  
Gn0532 After Noah was 500 years old, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.  
Gn0601 When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them,  
Gn0602 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.  
Gn0603 Then the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”  
Gn0604 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.  
Gn0605 The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  
Gn0606 And the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.  
Gn0607 So the LORD said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”  
Gn0608 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.  
Gn0609 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.  
Gn0610 And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.  
Gn0611 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.  
Gn0612 And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.  
Gn0613 And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.  
Gn0614 Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.  
Gn0615 This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits.  
Gn0616 Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks.  
Gn0617 For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.  
Gn0618 But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.  
Gn0619 And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.  
Gn0620 Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground, according to its kind, two of every sort shall come in to you to keep them alive.  
Gn0621 Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them.”  
Gn0622 Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.  
Gn0701 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.  
Gn0702 Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate,  
Gn0703 and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.  
Gn0704 For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground.”  
Gn0705 And Noah did all that the LORD had commanded him.  
Gn0706 Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon the earth.  
Gn0707 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.  
Gn0708 Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground,  
Gn0709 two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.  
Gn0710 And after seven days the waters of the flood came upon the earth.  
Gn0711 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.  
Gn0712 And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.  
Gn0713 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,  
Gn0714 they and every beast, according to its kind, and all the livestock according to their kinds, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, according to its kind, and every bird, according to its kind, every winged creature.  
Gn0715 They went into the ark with Noah, two and two of all flesh in which there was the breath of life.  
Gn0716 And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him. And the LORD shut him in.  
Gn0717 The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.  
Gn0718 The waters prevailed and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the face of the waters.  
Gn0719 And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.  
Gn0720 The waters prevailed above the mountains, covering them fifteen cubits deep.  
Gn0721 And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind.  
Gn0722 Everything on the dry land in whose nostrils was the breath of life died.  
Gn0723 He blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens. They were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.  
Gn0724 And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.  
Gn0801 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the livestock that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.  
Gn0802 The fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, the rain from the heavens was restrained,  
Gn0803 and the waters receded from the earth continually. At the end of 150 days the waters had abated,  
Gn0804 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.  
Gn0805 And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.  
Gn0806 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made  
Gn0807 and sent forth a raven. It went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.  
Gn0808 Then he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ground.  
Gn0809 But the dove found no place to set her foot, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her and brought her into the ark with him.  
Gn0810 He waited another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark.  
Gn0811 And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a freshly plucked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the earth.  
Gn0812 Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, and she did not return to him anymore.  
Gn0813 In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.  
Gn0814 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out.  
Gn0815 Then God said to Noah,  
Gn0816 “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.  
Gn0817 Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”  
Gn0818 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.  
Gn0819 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark.  
Gn0820 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.  
Gn0821 And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man’s heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done.  
Gn0822 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”  
Gn0901 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.  
Gn0902 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.  
Gn0903 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.  
Gn0904 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.  
Gn0905 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.  
Gn0906 “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.  
Gn0907 And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”  
Gn0908 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,  
Gn0909 “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you,  
Gn0910 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth.  
Gn0911 I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”  
Gn0912 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:  
Gn0913 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.  
Gn0914 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds,  
Gn0915 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.  
Gn0916 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”  
Gn0917 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”  
Gn0918 The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)  
Gn0919 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.  
Gn0920 Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.  
Gn0921 He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.  
Gn0922 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.  
Gn0923 Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father’s nakedness.  
Gn0924 When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him,  
Gn0925 he said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”  
Gn0926 He also said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant.  
Gn0927 May God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.”  
Gn0928 After the flood Noah lived 350 years.  
Gn0929 All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.  
Gn1001 These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.  
Gn1002 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.  
Gn1003 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.  
Gn1004 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.  
Gn1005 From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.  
Gn1006 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.  
Gn1007 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.  
Gn1008 Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.  
Gn1009 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.”  
Gn1010 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.  
Gn1011 From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and  
Gn1012 Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.  
Gn1013 Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,  
Gn1014 Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorim.  
Gn1015 Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,  
Gn1016 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,  
Gn1017 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,  
Gn1018 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites dispersed.  
Gn1019 And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.  
Gn1020 These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.  
Gn1021 To Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, children were born.  
Gn1022 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.  
Gn1023 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.  
Gn1024 Arpachshad fathered Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber.  
Gn1025 To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.  
Gn1026 Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,  
Gn1027   Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,   
Gn1028 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,  
Gn1029 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.  
Gn1030 The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar to the hill country of the east.  
Gn1031 These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.  
Gn1032 These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.  
Gn1101 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.  
Gn1102 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.  
Gn1103 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.  
Gn1104 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”  
Gn1105 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.  
Gn1106 And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.  
Gn1107 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.”  
Gn1108 So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.  
Gn1109 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.  
Gn1110 These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.  
Gn1111 And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad 500 years and had other sons and daughters.  
Gn1112 When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Shelah.  
Gn1113 And Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah 403 years and had other sons and daughters.  
Gn1114 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he fathered Eber.  
Gn1115 And Shelah lived after he fathered Eber 403 years and had other sons and daughters.  
Gn1116 When Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered Peleg.  
Gn1117 And Eber lived after he fathered Peleg 430 years and had other sons and daughters.  
Gn1118 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he fathered Reu.  
Gn1119 And Peleg lived after he fathered Reu 209 years and had other sons and daughters.  
Gn1120 When Reu had lived 32 years, he fathered Serug.  
Gn1121 And Reu lived after he fathered Serug 207 years and had other sons and daughters.  
Gn1122 When Serug had lived 30 years, he fathered Nahor.  
Gn1123 And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor 200 years and had other sons and daughters.  
Gn1124 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah.  
Gn1125 And Nahor lived after he fathered Terah 119 years and had other sons and daughters.  
Gn1126 When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.  
Gn1127 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.  
Gn1128 Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans.  
Gn1129 And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.  
Gn1130 Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.  
Gn1131 Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.  
Gn1132 The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.  
Gn1201 Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.  
Gn1202 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.  
Gn1203 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”  
Gn1204 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.  
Gn1205 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,  
Gn1206 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.  
Gn1207 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.  
Gn1208 From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.  
Gn1209 And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.  
Gn1210 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.  
Gn1211 When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,  
Gn1212 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.  
Gn1213 Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.”  
Gn1214 When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.  
Gn1215 And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.  
Gn1216 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.  
Gn1217 But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.  
Gn1218 So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?  
Gn1219 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.”  
Gn1220 And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.  
Gn1301 So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.  
Gn1302 Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.  
Gn1303 And he journeyed on from the Negeb as far as Bethel to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,  
Gn1304 to the place where he had made an altar at the first. And there Abram called upon the name of the LORD.  
Gn1305 And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents,  
Gn1306 so that the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together,  
Gn1307 and there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land.  
Gn1308 Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.  
Gn1309 Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I will go to the right, or if you take the right hand, then I will go to the left.”  
Gn1310 And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)  
Gn1311 So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. Thus they separated from each other.  
Gn1312 Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom.  
Gn1313 Now the men of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the LORD.  
Gn1314 The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,  
Gn1315 for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever.  
Gn1316 I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.  
Gn1317 Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you.”  
Gn1318 So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD.  
Gn1401 In the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,  
Gn1402 these kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).  
Gn1403 And all these joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).  
Gn1404 Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.  
Gn1405 In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,  
Gn1406 and the Horites in their hill country of Seir as far as El-paran on the border of the wilderness.  
Gn1407 Then they turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh) and defeated all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who were dwelling in Hazazon-tamar.  
Gn1408 Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and they joined battle in the Valley of Siddim  
Gn1409 with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five.  
Gn1410 Now the Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them, and the rest fled to the hill country.  
Gn1411 So the enemy took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their provisions, and went their way.  
Gn1412 They also took Lot, the son of Abram’s brother, who was dwelling in Sodom, and his possessions, and went their way.  
Gn1413 Then one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and of Aner. These were allies of Abram.  
Gn1414 When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.  
Gn1415 And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.  
Gn1416 Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his possessions, and the women and the people.  
Gn1417 After his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).  
Gn1418 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.)  
Gn1419 And he blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;  
Gn1420 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand!” And Abram gave him a tenth of everything.  
Gn1421 And the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the persons, but take the goods for yourself.”  
Gn1422 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted my hand to the LORD, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth,  
Gn1423 that I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’  
Gn1424 I will take nothing but what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me. Let Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share.”  
Gn1501 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”  
Gn1502 But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”  
Gn1503 And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.”  
Gn1504 And behold, the word of the LORD came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir.”  
Gn1505 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”  
Gn1506 And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.  
Gn1507 And he said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”  
Gn1508 But he said, “O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess it?”  
Gn1509 He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”  
Gn1510 And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half.  
Gn1511 And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.  
Gn1512 As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him.  
Gn1513 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years.  
Gn1514 But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.  
Gn1515 As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.  
Gn1516 And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”  
Gn1517 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.  
Gn1518 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates,  
Gn1519 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,  
Gn1520 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,  
Gn1521 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”  
Gn1601 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.  
Gn1602 And Sarai said to Abram, “Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.  
Gn1603 So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.  
Gn1604 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.  
Gn1605 And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!”  
Gn1606 But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please.” Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.  
Gn1607 The angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.  
Gn1608 And he said, “Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai.”  
Gn1609 The angel of the LORD said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her.”  
Gn1610 The angel of the LORD also said to her, “I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude.”  
Gn1611 And the angel of the LORD said to her, “Behold, you are pregnant and shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has listened to your affliction.  
Gn1612 He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.”  
Gn1613 So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “You are a God of seeing,” for she said, “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.”  
Gn1614 Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.  
Gn1615 And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.  
Gn1616 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.  
Gn1701 When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,  
Gn1702 that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.”  
Gn1703 Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him,  
Gn1704 “Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.  
Gn1705 No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.  
Gn1706 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.  
Gn1707 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.  
Gn1708 And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”  
Gn1709 And God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.  
Gn1710 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.  
Gn1711 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.  
Gn1712 He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring,  
Gn1713 both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.  
Gn1714 Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”  
Gn1715 And God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.  
Gn1716 I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”  
Gn1717 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”  
Gn1718 And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”  
Gn1719 God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.  
Gn1720 As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.  
Gn1721 But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year.”  
Gn1722 When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.  
Gn1723 Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.  
Gn1724 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.  
Gn1725 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.  
Gn1726 That very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.  
Gn1727 And all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.  
Gn1801 And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.  
Gn1802 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth  
Gn1803 and said, “O Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant.  
Gn1804 Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree,  
Gn1805 while I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on—since you have come to your servant.” So they said, “Do as you have said.”  
Gn1806 And Abraham went quickly into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quick! Three seahs of fine flour! Knead it, and make cakes.”  
Gn1807 And Abraham ran to the herd and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to a young man, who prepared it quickly.  
Gn1808 Then he took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared, and set it before them. And he stood by them under the tree while they ate.  
Gn1809 They said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he said, “She is in the tent.”  
Gn1810 The LORD said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.  
Gn1811 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years. The way of women had ceased to be with Sarah.  
Gn1812 So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?”  
Gn1813 The LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’  
Gn1814 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.”  
Gn1815 But Sarah denied it, saying, “I did not laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”  
Gn1816 Then the men set out from there, and they looked down toward Sodom. And Abraham went with them to set them on their way.  
Gn1817 The LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do,  
Gn1818 seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?  
Gn1819 For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”  
Gn1820 Then the LORD said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave,  
Gn1821 I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know.”  
Gn1822 So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the LORD.  
Gn1823 Then Abraham drew near and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?  
Gn1824 Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it?  
Gn1825 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?”  
Gn1826 And the LORD said, “If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”  
Gn1827 Abraham answered and said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.  
Gn1828 Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And he said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”  
Gn1829 Again he spoke to him and said, “Suppose forty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of forty I will not do it.”  
Gn1830 Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there.” He answered, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.”  
Gn1831 He said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it.”  
Gn1832 Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.”  
Gn1833 And the LORD went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.  
Gn1901 The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth  
Gn1902 and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.”  
Gn1903 But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.  
Gn1904 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house.  
Gn1905 And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.”  
Gn1906 Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him,  
Gn1907 and said, “I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.  
Gn1908 Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.”  
Gn1909 But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This fellow came to sojourn, and he has become the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door down.  
Gn1910 But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them and shut the door.  
Gn1911 And they struck with blindness the men who were at the entrance of the house, both small and great, so that they wore themselves out groping for the door.  
Gn1912 Then the men said to Lot, “Have you anyone else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone you have in the city, bring them out of the place.  
Gn1913 For we are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become great before the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.”  
Gn1914 So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up! Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.  
Gn1915 As morning dawned, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be swept away in the punishment of the city.”  
Gn1916 But he lingered. So the men seized him and his wife and his two daughters by the hand, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.  
Gn1917 And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.”  
Gn1918 And Lot said to them, “Oh, no, my lords.  
Gn1919 Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.  
Gn1920 Behold, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there—is it not a little one?—and my life will be saved!”  
Gn1921 He said to him, “Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.  
Gn1922 Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.  
Gn1923 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.  
Gn1924 Then the LORD rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the LORD out of heaven.  
Gn1925 And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.  
Gn1926 But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.  
Gn1927 And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.  
Gn1928 And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.  
Gn1929 So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.  
Gn1930 Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.  
Gn1931 And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.  
Gn1932 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.”  
Gn1933 So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose.  
Gn1934 The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also. Then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.”  
Gn1935 So they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.  
Gn1936 Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father.  
Gn1937 The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.  
Gn1938 The younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites to this day.  
Gn2001 From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.  
Gn2002 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.  
Gn2003 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife.”  
Gn2004 Now Abimelech had not approached her. So he said, “Lord, will you kill an innocent people?  
Gn2005 Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.”  
Gn2006 Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.  
Gn2007 Now then, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.”  
Gn2008 So Abimelech rose early in the morning and called all his servants and told them all these things. And the men were very much afraid.  
Gn2009 Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.”  
Gn2010 And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you did this thing?”  
Gn2011 Abraham said, “I did it because I thought, ‘There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.’  
Gn2012 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.  
Gn2013 And when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”  
Gn2014 Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and returned Sarah his wife to him.  
Gn2015 And Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you; dwell where it pleases you.”  
Gn2016 To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is a sign of your innocence in the eyes of all who are with you, and before everyone you are vindicated.”  
Gn2017 Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children.  
Gn2018 For the LORD had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.  
Gn2101 The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had promised.  
Gn2102 And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.  
Gn2103 Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac.  
Gn2104 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.  
Gn2105 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.  
Gn2106 And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me.”  
Gn2107 And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”  
Gn2108 And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.  
Gn2109 But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.  
Gn2110 So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.”  
Gn2111 And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son.  
Gn2112 But God said to Abraham, “Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.  
Gn2113 And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring.”  
Gn2114 So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.  
Gn2115 When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes.  
Gn2116 Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot, for she said, “Let me not look on the death of the child.” And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.  
Gn2117 And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.  
Gn2118 Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”  
Gn2119 Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.  
Gn2120 And God was with the boy, and he grew up. He lived in the wilderness and became an expert with the bow.  
Gn2121 He lived in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.  
Gn2122 At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.  
Gn2123 Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned.”  
Gn2124 And Abraham said, “I will swear.”  
Gn2125 When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized,  
Gn2126 Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until today.”  
Gn2127 So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.  
Gn2128 Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock apart.  
Gn2129 And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?”  
Gn2130 He said, “These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”  
Gn2131 Therefore that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath.  
Gn2132 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.  
Gn2133 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.  
Gn2134 And Abraham sojourned many days in the land of the Philistines.  
Gn2201 After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”  
Gn2202 He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”  
Gn2203 So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.  
Gn2204 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.  
Gn2205 Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.”  
Gn2206 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together.  
Gn2207 And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”  
Gn2208 Abraham said, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together.  
Gn2209 When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.  
Gn2210 Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.  
Gn2211 But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”  
Gn2212 He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”  
Gn2213 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.  
Gn2214 So Abraham called the name of that place, “The LORD will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided.”  
Gn2215 And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven  
Gn2216 and said, “By myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,  
Gn2217 I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies,  
Gn2218 and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”  
Gn2219 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba.  
Gn2220 Now after these things it was told to Abraham, “Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:  
Gn2221 Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,  
Gn2222 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”  
Gn2223 (Bethuel fathered Rebekah.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.  
Gn2224 Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.  
Gn2301 Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.  
Gn2302 And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.  
Gn2303 And Abraham rose up from before his dead and said to the Hittites,  
Gn2304 “I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”  
Gn2305 The Hittites answered Abraham,  
Gn2306 “Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead.”  
Gn2307 Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.  
Gn2308 And he said to them, “If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,  
Gn2309 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as property for a burying place.”  
Gn2310 Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who went in at the gate of his city,  
Gn2311 “No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.”  
Gn2312 Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.  
Gn2313 And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there.”  
Gn2314 Ephron answered Abraham,  
Gn2315 “My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.”  
Gn2316 Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.  
Gn2317 So the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made over  
Gn2318 to Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who went in at the gate of his city.  
Gn2319 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.  
Gn2320 The field and the cave that is in it were made over to Abraham as property for a burying place by the Hittites.  
Gn2401 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.  
Gn2402 And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh,  
Gn2403 that I may make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,  
Gn2404 but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”  
Gn2405 The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”  
Gn2406 Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there.  
Gn2407 The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.  
Gn2408 But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there.”  
Gn2409 So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.  
Gn2410 Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed, taking all sorts of choice gifts from his master; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia to the city of Nahor.  
Gn2411 And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time when women go out to draw water.  
Gn2412 And he said, “O LORD, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.  
Gn2413 Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.  
Gn2414 Let the young woman to whom I shall say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who shall say, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels’—let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master.”  
Gn2415 Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, came out with her water jar on her shoulder.  
Gn2416 The young woman was very attractive in appearance, a maiden whom no man had known. She went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.  
Gn2417 Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please give me a little water to drink from your jar.”  
Gn2418 She said, “Drink, my lord.” And she quickly let down her jar upon her hand and gave him a drink.  
Gn2419 When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will draw water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking.”  
Gn2420 So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw water, and she drew for all his camels.  
Gn2421 The man gazed at her in silence to learn whether the LORD had prospered his journey or not.  
Gn2422 When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,  
Gn2423 and said, “Please tell me whose daughter you are. Is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”  
Gn2424 She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”  
Gn2425 She added, “We have plenty of both straw and fodder, and room to spend the night.”  
Gn2426 The man bowed his head and worshiped the LORD  
Gn2427 and said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the LORD has led me in the way to the house of my master’s kinsmen.”  
Gn2428 Then the young woman ran and told her mother’s household about these things.  
Gn2429 Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban. Laban ran out toward the man, to the spring.  
Gn2430 As soon as he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister’s arms, and heard the words of Rebekah his sister, “Thus the man spoke to me,” he went to the man. And behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.  
Gn2431 He said, “Come in, O blessed of the LORD. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”  
Gn2432 So the man came to the house and unharnessed the camels, and gave straw and fodder to the camels, and there was water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.  
Gn2433 Then food was set before him to eat. But he said, “I will not eat until I have said what I have to say.” He said, “Speak on.”  
Gn2434 So he said, “I am Abraham’s servant.  
Gn2435 The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys.  
Gn2436 And Sarah my master’s wife bore a son to my master when she was old, and to him he has given all that he has.  
Gn2437 My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell,  
Gn2438 but you shall go to my father’s house and to my clan and take a wife for my son.’  
Gn2439 I said to my master, ‘Perhaps the woman will not follow me.’  
Gn2440 But he said to me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father’s house.  
Gn2441 Then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my clan. And if they will not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.’  
Gn2442 “I came today to the spring and said, ‘O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now you are prospering the way that I go,  
Gn2443 behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let the virgin who comes out to draw water, to whom I shall say, “Please give me a little water from your jar to drink,”  
Gn2444 and who will say to me, “Drink, and I will draw for your camels also,” let her be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for my master’s son.’  
Gn2445 “Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her water jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’  
Gn2446 She quickly let down her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will give your camels drink also.’ So I drank, and she gave the camels drink also.  
Gn2447 Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her arms.  
Gn2448 Then I bowed my head and worshiped the LORD and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master’s kinsman for his son.  
Gn2449 Now then, if you are going to show steadfast love and faithfulness to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand or to the left.”  
Gn2450 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, “The thing has come from the LORD; we cannot speak to you bad or good.  
Gn2451 Behold, Rebekah is before you; take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master’s son, as the LORD has spoken.”  
Gn2452 When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the earth before the LORD.  
Gn2453 And the servant brought out jewelry of silver and of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.  
Gn2454 And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night there. When they arose in the morning, he said, “Send me away to my master.”  
Gn2455 Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young woman remain with us a while, at least ten days; after that she may go.”  
Gn2456 But he said to them, “Do not delay me, since the LORD has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”  
Gn2457 They said, “Let us call the young woman and ask her.”  
Gn2458 And they called Rebekah and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” She said, “I will go.”  
Gn2459 So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant and his men.  
Gn2460 And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become thousands of ten thousands, and may your offspring possess the gate of those who hate him!”  
Gn2461 Then Rebekah and her young women arose and rode on the camels and followed the man. Thus the servant took Rebekah and went his way.  
Gn2462 Now Isaac had returned from Beer-lahai-roi and was dwelling in the Negeb.  
Gn2463 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening. And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, there were camels coming.  
Gn2464 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the camel  
Gn2465 and said to the servant, “Who is that man, walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself.  
Gn2466 And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.  
Gn2467 Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.  
Gn2501 Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.  
Gn2502 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.  
Gn2503 Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.  
Gn2504 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.  
Gn2505 Abraham gave all he had to Isaac.  
Gn2506 But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.  
Gn2507 These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life, 175 years.  
Gn2508 Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.  
Gn2509 Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre,  
Gn2510 the field that Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried, with Sarah his wife.  
Gn2511 After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled at Beer- lahai-roi.  
Gn2512 These are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.  
Gn2513 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, named in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael; and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,  
Gn2514 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,  
Gn2515 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.  
Gn2516 These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their tribes.  
Gn2517 (These are the years of the life of Ishmael: 137 years. He breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.)  
Gn2518 They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria. He settled over against all his kinsmen.  
Gn2519 These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham fathered Isaac,  
Gn2520 and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.  
Gn2521 And Isaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived.  
Gn2522 The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the LORD.  
Gn2523 And the LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.”  
Gn2524 When her days to give birth were completed, behold, there were twins in her womb.  
Gn2525 The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau.  
Gn2526 Afterward his brother came out with his hand holding Esau’s heel, so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.  
Gn2527 When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.  
Gn2528 Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.  
Gn2529 Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted.  
Gn2530 And Esau said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am exhausted!” (Therefore his name was called Edom.)  
Gn2531 Jacob said, “Sell me your birthright now.”  
Gn2532 Esau said, “I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?”  
Gn2533 Jacob said, “Swear to me now.” So he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.  
Gn2534 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank and rose and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.  
Gn2601 Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines.  
Gn2602 And the LORD appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you.  
Gn2603 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.  
Gn2604 I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,  
Gn2605 because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”  
Gn2606 So Isaac settled in Gerar.  
Gn2607 When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he feared to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah,” because she was attractive in appearance.  
Gn2608 When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with Rebekah his wife.  
Gn2609 So Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I thought, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”  
Gn2610 Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”  
Gn2611 So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”  
Gn2612 And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The LORD blessed him,  
Gn2613 and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy.  
Gn2614 He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him.  
Gn2615 (Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.)  
Gn2616 And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”  
Gn2617 So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.  
Gn2618 And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them.  
Gn2619 But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water,  
Gn2620 the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.  
Gn2621 Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah.  
Gn2622 And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, saying, “For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”  
Gn2623 From there he went up to Beersheba.  
Gn2624 And the LORD appeared to him the same night and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”  
Gn2625 So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the LORD and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac’s servants dug a well.  
Gn2626 When Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army,  
Gn2627 Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you?”  
Gn2628 They said, “We see plainly that the LORD has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,  
Gn2629 that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the LORD.”  
Gn2630 So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.  
Gn2631 In the morning they rose early and exchanged oaths. And Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.  
Gn2632 That same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well that they had dug and said to him, “We have found water.”  
Gn2633 He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.  
Gn2634 When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite,  
Gn2635 and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.  
Gn2701 When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son”; and he answered, “Here I am.”  
Gn2702 He said, “Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.  
Gn2703 Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me,  
Gn2704 and prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.”  
Gn2705 Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it,  
Gn2706 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “I heard your father speak to your brother Esau,  
Gn2707 ‘Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the LORD before I die.’  
Gn2708 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you.  
Gn2709 Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves.  
Gn2710 And you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.”  
Gn2711 But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.  
Gn2712 Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing.”  
Gn2713 His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me.”  
Gn2714 So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared delicious food, such as his father loved.  
Gn2715 Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.  
Gn2716 And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.  
Gn2717 And she put the delicious food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.  
Gn2718 So he went in to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”  
Gn2719 Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me.”  
Gn2720 But Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He answered, “Because the LORD your God granted me success.”  
Gn2721 Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not.”  
Gn2722 So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”  
Gn2723 And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.  
Gn2724 He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He answered, “I am.”  
Gn2725 Then he said, “Bring it near to me, that I may eat of my son’s game and bless you.” So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.  
Gn2726 Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come near and kiss me, my son.”  
Gn2727 So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, “See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed!  
Gn2728 May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine.  
Gn2729 Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!”  
Gn2730 As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.  
Gn2731 He also prepared delicious food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, “Let my father arise and eat of his son’s game, that you may bless me.”  
Gn2732 His father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?” He answered, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”  
Gn2733 Then Isaac trembled very violently and said, “Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed.”  
Gn2734 As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!”  
Gn2735 But he said, “Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing.”  
Gn2736 Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing.” Then he said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”  
Gn2737 Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?”  
Gn2738 Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father.” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.  
Gn2739 Then Isaac his father answered and said to him: “Behold, away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be, and away from the dew of heaven on high.  
Gn2740 By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you grow restless you shall break his yoke from your neck.”  
Gn2741 Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”  
Gn2742 But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.  
Gn2743 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haran  
Gn2744 and stay with him a while, until your brother’s fury turns away—  
Gn2745 until your brother’s anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereft of you both in one day?”  
Gn2746 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”  
Gn2801 Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.  
Gn2802 Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.  
Gn2803 God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.  
Gn2804 May he give the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!”  
Gn2805 Thus Isaac sent Jacob away. And he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.  
Gn2806 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women,”  
Gn2807 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram.  
Gn2808 So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father,  
Gn2809 Esau went to Ishmael and took as his wife, besides the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth.  
Gn2810 Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran.  
Gn2811 And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep.  
Gn2812 And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!  
Gn2813 And behold, the LORD stood above it and said, “I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring.  
Gn2814 Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.  
Gn2815 Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”  
Gn2816 Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I did not know it.”  
Gn2817 And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”  
Gn2818 So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.  
Gn2819 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.  
Gn2820 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear,  
Gn2821 so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, then the LORD shall be my God,  
Gn2822 and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house. And of all that you give me I will give a full tenth to you.”  
Gn2901 Then Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.  
Gn2902 As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep lying beside it, for out of that well the flocks were watered. The stone on the well’s mouth was large,  
Gn2903 and when all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place over the mouth of the well.  
Gn2904 Jacob said to them, “My brothers, where do you come from?” They said, “We are from Haran.”  
Gn2905 He said to them, “Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.”  
Gn2906 He said to them, “Is it well with him?” They said, “It is well; and see, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep!”  
Gn2907 He said, “Behold, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered together. Water the sheep and go, pasture them.”  
Gn2908 But they said, “We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.”  
Gn2909 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.  
Gn2910 Now as soon as Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.  
Gn2911 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.  
Gn2912 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s kinsman, and that he was Rebekah’s son, and she ran and told her father.  
Gn2913 As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things,  
Gn2914 and Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh!” And he stayed with him a month.  
Gn2915 Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?”  
Gn2916 Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.  
Gn2917 Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.  
Gn2918 Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”  
Gn2919 Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.”  
Gn2920 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.  
Gn2921 Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.”  
Gn2922 So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a feast.  
Gn2923 But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he went in to her.  
Gn2924 (Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)  
Gn2925 And in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”  
Gn2926 Laban said, “It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.  
Gn2927 Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.”  
Gn2928 Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.  
Gn2929 (Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.)  
Gn2930 So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.  
Gn2931 When the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.  
Gn2932 And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, “Because the LORD has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”  
Gn2933 She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also.” And she called his name Simeon.  
Gn2934 Again she conceived and bore a son, and said, “Now this time my husband will be attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” Therefore his name was called Levi.  
Gn2935 And she conceived again and bore a son, and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” Therefore she called his name Judah. Then she ceased bearing.  
Gn3001 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!”  
Gn3002 Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”  
Gn3003 Then she said, “Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her.”  
Gn3004 So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.  
Gn3005 And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.  
Gn3006 Then Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.  
Gn3007 Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.  
Gn3008 Then Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed.” So she called his name Naphtali.  
Gn3009 When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.  
Gn3010 Then Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.  
Gn3011 And Leah said, “Good fortune has come!” so she called his name Gad.  
Gn3012 Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.  
Gn3013 And Leah said, “Happy am I! For women have called me happy.” So she called his name Asher.  
Gn3014 In the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”  
Gn3015 But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?” Rachel said, “Then he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”  
Gn3016 When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he lay with her that night.  
Gn3017 And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son.  
Gn3018 Leah said, “God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.  
Gn3019 And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son.  
Gn3020 Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name Zebulun.  
Gn3021 Afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah.  
Gn3022 Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb.  
Gn3023 She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”  
Gn3024 And she called his name Joseph, saying, “May the LORD add to me another son!”  
Gn3025 As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.  
Gn3026 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you.”  
Gn3027 But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.  
Gn3028 Name your wages, and I will give it.”  
Gn3029 Jacob said to him, “You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me.  
Gn3030 For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly, and the LORD has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?”  
Gn3031 He said, “What shall I give you?” Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this for me, I will again pasture your flock and keep it:  
Gn3032 let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and they shall be my wages.  
Gn3033 So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen.”  
Gn3034 Laban said, “Good! Let it be as you have said.”  
Gn3035 But that day Laban removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in the charge of his sons.  
Gn3036 And he set a distance of three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the rest of Laban’s flock.  
Gn3037 Then Jacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks.  
Gn3038 He set the sticks that he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink,  
Gn3039 the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.  
Gn3040 And Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban. He put his own droves apart and did not put them with Laban’s flock.  
Gn3041 Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob would lay the sticks in the troughs before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed among the sticks,  
Gn3042 but for the feebler of the flock he would not lay them there. So the feebler would be Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.  
Gn3043 Thus the man increased greatly and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.  
Gn3101 Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has gained all this wealth.”  
Gn3102 And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before.  
Gn3103 Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”  
Gn3104 So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah into the field where his flock was  
Gn3105 and said to them, “I see that your father does not regard me with favor as he did before. But the God of my father has been with me.  
Gn3106 You know that I have served your father with all my strength,  
Gn3107 yet your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not permit him to harm me.  
Gn3108 If he said, ‘The spotted shall be your wages,’ then all the flock bore spotted; and if he said, ‘The striped shall be your wages,’ then all the flock bore striped.  
Gn3109 Thus God has taken away the livestock of your father and given them to me.  
Gn3110 In the breeding season of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream that the goats that mated with the flock were striped, spotted, and mottled.  
Gn3111 Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am!’  
Gn3112 And he said, ‘Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that mate with the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.  
Gn3113 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.’”  
Gn3114 Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, “Is there any portion or inheritance left to us in our father’s house?  
Gn3115 Are we not regarded by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and he has indeed devoured our money.  
Gn3116 All the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”  
Gn3117 So Jacob arose and set his sons and his wives on camels.  
Gn3118 He drove away all his livestock, all his property that he had gained, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.  
Gn3119 Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household gods.  
Gn3120 And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he intended to flee.  
Gn3121 He fled with all that he had and arose and crossed the Euphrates, and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.  
Gn3122 When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,  
Gn3123 he took his kinsmen with him and pursued him for seven days and followed close after him into the hill country of Gilead.  
Gn3124 But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”  
Gn3125 And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen pitched tents in the hill country of Gilead.  
Gn3126 And Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have tricked me and driven away my daughters like captives of the sword?  
Gn3127 Why did you flee secretly and trick me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre?  
Gn3128 And why did you not permit me to kiss my sons and my daughters farewell? Now you have done foolishly.  
Gn3129 It is in my power to do you harm. But the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’  
Gn3130 And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house, but why did you steal my gods?”  
Gn3131 Jacob answered and said to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.  
Gn3132 Anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In the presence of our kinsmen point out what I have that is yours, and take it.” Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.  
Gn3133 So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find them. And he went out of Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.  
Gn3134 Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel’s saddle and sat on them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them.  
Gn3135 And she said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the household gods.  
Gn3136 Then Jacob became angry and berated Laban. Jacob said to Laban, “What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?  
Gn3137 For you have felt through all my goods; what have you found of all your household goods? Set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen, that they may decide between us two.  
Gn3138 These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, and I have not eaten the rams of your flocks.  
Gn3139 What was torn by wild beasts I did not bring to you. I bore the loss of it myself. From my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.  
Gn3140 There I was: by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.  
Gn3141 These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.  
Gn3142 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been on my side, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my affliction and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night.”  
Gn3143 Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day for these my daughters or for their children whom they have borne?  
Gn3144 Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I. And let it be a witness between you and me.”  
Gn3145 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.  
Gn3146 And Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.  
Gn3147 Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.  
Gn3148 Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore he named it Galeed,  
Gn3149 and Mizpah, for he said, “The LORD watch between you and me, when we are out of one another’s sight.  
Gn3150 If you oppress my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one is with us, see, God is witness between you and me.”  
Gn3151 Then Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap and the pillar, which I have set between you and me.  
Gn3152 This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, to do harm.  
Gn3153 The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac,  
Gn3154 and Jacob offered a sacrifice in the hill country and called his kinsmen to eat bread. They ate bread and spent the night in the hill country.  
Gn3155 Early in the morning Laban arose and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned home.  
Gn3201 Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.  
Gn3202 And when Jacob saw them he said, “This is God’s camp!” So he called the name of that place Mahanaim.  
Gn3203 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom,  
Gn3204 instructing them, “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, ‘I have sojourned with Laban and stayed until now.  
Gn3205 I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, in order that I may find favor in your sight.’”  
Gn3206 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and there are four hundred men with him.”  
Gn3207 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two camps,  
Gn3208 thinking, “If Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it, then the camp that is left will escape.”  
Gn3209 And Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O LORD who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your kindred, that I may do you good,’  
Gn3210 I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.  
Gn3211 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, that he may come and attack me, the mothers with the children.  
Gn3212 But you said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”  
Gn3213 So he stayed there that night, and from what he had with him he took a present for his brother Esau,  
Gn3214 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,  
Gn3215 thirty milking camels and their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.  
Gn3216 These he handed over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on ahead of me and put a space between drove and drove.”  
Gn3217 He instructed the first, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?’  
Gn3218 then you shall say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a present sent to my lord Esau. And moreover, he is behind us.’”  
Gn3219 He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, “You shall say the same thing to Esau when you find him,  
Gn3220 and you shall say, ‘Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”  
Gn3221 So the present passed on ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.  
Gn3222 The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.  
Gn3223 He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had.  
Gn3224 And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.  
Gn3225 When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.  
Gn3226 Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”  
Gn3227 And he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.”  
Gn3228 Then he said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.”  
Gn3229 Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him.  
Gn3230 So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”  
Gn3231 The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip.  
Gn3232 Therefore to this day the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip on the sinew of the thigh.  
Gn3301 And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two female servants.  
Gn3302 And he put the servants with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.  
Gn3303 He himself went on before them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.  
Gn3304 But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.  
Gn3305 And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”  
Gn3306 Then the servants drew near, they and their children, and bowed down.  
Gn3307 Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down. And last Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down.  
Gn3308 Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company that I met?” Jacob answered, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”  
Gn3309 But Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.”  
Gn3310 Jacob said, “No, please, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand. For I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me.  
Gn3311 Please accept my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” Thus he urged him, and he took it.  
Gn3312 Then Esau said, “Let us journey on our way, and I will go ahead of you.”  
Gn3313 But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and that the nursing flocks and herds are a care to me. If they are driven hard for one day, all the flocks will die.  
Gn3314 Let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, at the pace of the livestock that are ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”  
Gn3315 So Esau said, “Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”  
Gn3316 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.  
Gn3317 But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.  
Gn3318 And Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city.  
Gn3319 And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.  
Gn3320 There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.  
Gn3401 Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the women of the land.  
Gn3402 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her.  
Gn3403 And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.  
Gn3404 So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl for my wife.”  
Gn3405 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled his daughter Dinah. But his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob held his peace until they came.  
Gn3406 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.  
Gn3407 The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing must not be done.  
Gn3408 But Hamor spoke with them, saying, “The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him to be his wife.  
Gn3409 Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.  
Gn3410 You shall dwell with us, and the land shall be open to you. Dwell and trade in it, and get property in it.”  
Gn3411 Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give.  
Gn3412 Ask me for as great a bride-price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife.”  
Gn3413 The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, because he had defiled their sister Dinah.  
Gn3414 They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.  
Gn3415 Only on this condition will we agree with you—that you will become as we are by every male among you being circumcised.  
Gn3416 Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to ourselves, and we will dwell with you and become one people.  
Gn3417 But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter, and we will be gone.”  
Gn3418 Their words pleased Hamor and Hamor’s son Shechem.  
Gn3419 And the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he delighted in Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most honored of all his father’s house.  
Gn3420 So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying,  
Gn3421 “These men are at peace with us; let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters as wives, and let us give them our daughters.  
Gn3422 Only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us to become one people—when every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.  
Gn3423 Will not their livestock, their property and all their beasts be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will dwell with us.”  
Gn3424 And all who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.  
Gn3425 On the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords and came against the city while it felt secure and killed all the males.  
Gn3426 They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house and went away.  
Gn3427 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.  
Gn3428 They took their flocks and their herds, their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field.  
Gn3429 All their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses, they captured and plundered.  
Gn3430 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me stink to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. My numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”  
Gn3431 But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?”  
Gn3501 God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”  
Gn3502 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments.  
Gn3503 Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”  
Gn3504 So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree that was near Shechem.  
Gn3505 And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.  
Gn3506 And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,  
Gn3507 and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.  
Gn3508 And Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried under an oak below Bethel. So he called its name Allon-bacuth.  
Gn3509 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.  
Gn3510 And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.” So he called his name Israel.  
Gn3511 And God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.  
Gn3512 The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your offspring after you.”  
Gn3513 Then God went up from him in the place where he had spoken with him.  
Gn3514 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.  
Gn3515 So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.  
Gn3516 Then they journeyed from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor, and she had hard labor.  
Gn3517 And when her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for you have another son.”  
Gn3518 And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.  
Gn3519 So Rachel died, and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem),  
Gn3520 and Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb. It is the pillar of Rachel’s tomb, which is there to this day.  
Gn3521 Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.  
Gn3522 While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine. And Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.  
Gn3523 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.  
Gn3524 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.  
Gn3525 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant: Dan and Naphtali.  
Gn3526 The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s servant: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.  
Gn3527 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.  
Gn3528 Now the days of Isaac were 180 years.  
Gn3529 And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.  
Gn3601 These are the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).  
Gn3602 Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,  
Gn3603 and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.  
Gn3604 And Adah bore to Esau, Eliphaz; Basemath bore Reuel;  
Gn3605 and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.  
Gn3606 Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his livestock, all his beasts, and all his property that he had acquired in the land of Canaan. He went into a land away from his brother Jacob.  
Gn3607 For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together. The land of their sojournings could not support them because of their livestock.  
Gn3608 So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir. (Esau is Edom.)  
Gn3609 These are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.  
Gn3610 These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau.  
Gn3611 The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.  
Gn3612 (Timna was a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau’s son; she bore Amalek to Eliphaz.) These are the sons of Adah, Esau’s wife.  
Gn3613 These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.  
Gn3614 These are the sons of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.  
Gn3615 These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: the chiefs Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,  
Gn3616 Korah, Gatam, and Amalek; these are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.  
Gn3617 These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: the chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah; these are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.  
Gn3618 These are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau’s wife: the chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the chiefs born of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife.  
Gn3619 These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.  
Gn3620 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,  
Gn3621 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom.  
Gn3622 The sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna.  
Gn3623 These are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.  
Gn3624 These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he pastured the donkeys of Zibeon his father.  
Gn3625 These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah.  
Gn3626 These are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.  
Gn3627 These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.  
Gn3628 These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.  
Gn3629 These are the chiefs of the Horites: the chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,  
Gn3630 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan; these are the chiefs of the Horites, chief by chief in the land of Seir.  
Gn3631 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the Israelites.  
Gn3632 Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, the name of his city being Dinhabah.  
Gn3633 Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.  
Gn3634 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.  
Gn3635 Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place, the name of his city being Avith.  
Gn3636 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.  
Gn3637 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his place.  
Gn3638 Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.  
Gn3639 Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place, the name of his city being Pau; his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab.  
Gn3640 These are the names of the chiefs of Esau, according to their clans and their dwelling places, by their names: the chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,  
Gn3641 Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,  
Gn3642 Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,  
Gn3643 Magdiel, and Iram; these are the chiefs of Edom (that is, Esau, the father of Edom), according to their dwelling places in the land of their possession.  
Gn3701 Jacob lived in the land of his father’s sojournings, in the land of Canaan.  
Gn3702 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.  
Gn3703 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors.  
Gn3704 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.  
Gn3705 Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more.  
Gn3706 He said to them, “Hear this dream that I have dreamed:  
Gn3707 Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”  
Gn3708 His brothers said to him, “Are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.  
Gn3709 Then he dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and said, “Behold, I have dreamed another dream. Behold, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”  
Gn3710 But when he told it to his father and to his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you?”  
Gn3711 And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.  
Gn3712 Now his brothers went to pasture their father’s flock near Shechem.  
Gn3713 And Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them.” And he said to him, “Here I am.”  
Gn3714 So he said to him, “Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word.” So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.  
Gn3715 And a man found him wandering in the fields. And the man asked him, “What are you seeking?”  
Gn3716 “I am seeking my brothers,” he said. “Tell me, please, where they are pasturing the flock.”  
Gn3717 And the man said, “They have gone away, for I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.  
Gn3718 They saw him from afar, and before he came near to them they conspired against him to kill him.  
Gn3719 They said to one another, “Here comes this dreamer.  
Gn3720 Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. Then we will say that a fierce animal has devoured him, and we will see what will become of his dreams.”  
Gn3721 But when Reuben heard it, he rescued him out of their hands, saying, “Let us not take his life.”  
Gn3722 And Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood; throw him into this pit here in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him”—that he might rescue him out of their hand to restore him to his father.  
Gn3723 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe, the robe of many colors that he wore.  
Gn3724 And they took him and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it.  
Gn3725 Then they sat down to eat. And looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.  
Gn3726 Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?  
Gn3727 Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened to him.  
Gn3728 Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.  
Gn3729 When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes  
Gn3730 and returned to his brothers and said, “The boy is gone, and I, where shall I go?”  
Gn3731 Then they took Joseph’s robe and slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood.  
Gn3732 And they sent the robe of many colors and brought it to their father and said, “This we have found; please identify whether it is your son’s robe or not.”  
Gn3733 And he identified it and said, “It is my son’s robe. A fierce animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn to pieces.”  
Gn3734 Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.  
Gn3735 All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted and said, “No, I shall go down to Sheol to my son, mourning.” Thus his father wept for him.  
Gn3736 Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard.  
Gn3801 It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and turned aside to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.  
Gn3802 There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her and went in to her,  
Gn3803 and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.  
Gn3804 She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan.  
Gn3805 Yet again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. Judah was in Chezib when she bore him.  
Gn3806 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.  
Gn3807 But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD put him to death.  
Gn3808 Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife and perform the duty of a brother- in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”  
Gn3809 But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother’s wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother.  
Gn3810 And what he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and he put him to death also.  
Gn3811 Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, till Shelah my son grows up”—for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and remained in her father’s house.  
Gn3812 In the course of time the wife of Judah, Shua’s daughter, died. When Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.  
Gn3813 And when Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”  
Gn3814 she took off her widow’s garments and covered herself with a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage.  
Gn3815 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.  
Gn3816 He turned to her at the roadside and said, “Come, let me come in to you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”  
Gn3817 He answered, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” And she said, “If you give me a pledge, until you send it—”  
Gn3818 He said, “What pledge shall I give you?” She replied, “Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand.” So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.  
Gn3819 Then she arose and went away, and taking off her veil she put on the garments of her widowhood.  
Gn3820 When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite to take back the pledge from the woman’s hand, he did not find her.  
Gn3821 And he asked the men of the place, “Where is the cult prostitute who was at Enaim at the roadside?” And they said, “No cult prostitute has been here.”  
Gn3822 So he returned to Judah and said, “I have not found her. Also, the men of the place said, ‘No cult prostitute has been here.’”  
Gn3823 And Judah replied, “Let her keep the things as her own, or we shall be laughed at. You see, I sent this young goat, and you did not find her.”  
Gn3824 About three months later Judah was told, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has been immoral. Moreover, she is pregnant by immorality.” And Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”  
Gn3825 As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, “By the man to whom these belong, I am pregnant.” And she said, “Please identify whose these are, the signet and the cord and the staff.”  
Gn3826 Then Judah identified them and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not know her again.  
Gn3827 When the time of her labor came, there were twins in her womb.  
Gn3828 And when she was in labor, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, “This one came out first.”  
Gn3829 But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out. And she said, “What a breach you have made for yourself!” Therefore his name was called Perez.  
Gn3830 Afterward his brother came out with the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah.  
Gn3901 Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.  
Gn3902 The LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master.  
Gn3903 His master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD caused all that he did to succeed in his hands.  
Gn3904 So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had.  
Gn3905 From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had, the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; the blessing of the LORD was on all that he had, in house and field.  
Gn3906 So he left all that he had in Joseph’s charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.  
Gn3907 And after a time his master’s wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.”  
Gn3908 But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.  
Gn3909 He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”  
Gn3910 And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.  
Gn3911 But one day, when he went into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house was there in the house,  
Gn3912 she caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house.  
Gn3913 And as soon as she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled out of the house,  
Gn3914 she called to the men of her household and said to them, “See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to laugh at us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.  
Gn3915 And as soon as he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried out, he left his garment beside me and fled and got out of the house.”  
Gn3916 Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home,  
Gn3917 and she told him the same story, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought among us, came in to me to laugh at me.  
Gn3918 But as soon as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment beside me and fled out of the house.”  
Gn3919 As soon as his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, “This is the way your servant treated me,” his anger was kindled.  
Gn3920 And Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.  
Gn3921 But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.  
Gn3922 And the keeper of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever was done there, he was the one who did it.  
Gn3923 The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was in Joseph’s charge, because the LORD was with him. And whatever he did, the LORD made it succeed.  
Gn4001 Some time after this, the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker committed an offense against their lord the king of Egypt.  
Gn4002 And Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,  
Gn4003 and he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison where Joseph was confined.  
Gn4004 The captain of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them. They continued for some time in custody.  
Gn4005 And one night they both dreamed—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison—each his own dream, and each dream with its own interpretation.  
Gn4006 When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were troubled.  
Gn4007 So he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, “Why are your faces downcast today?”  
Gn4008 They said to him, “We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them.” And Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me.”  
Gn4009 So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph and said to him, “In my dream there was a vine before me,  
Gn4010 and on the vine there were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters ripened into grapes.  
Gn4011 Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup and placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”  
Gn4012 Then Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.  
Gn4013 In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh’s cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer.  
Gn4014 Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house.  
Gn4015 For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.”  
Gn4016 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I also had a dream: there were three cake baskets on my head,  
Gn4017 and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head.”  
Gn4018 And Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days.  
Gn4019 In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from you!—and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you.”  
Gn4020 On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants and lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.  
Gn4021 He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.  
Gn4022 But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.  
Gn4023 Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.  
Gn4101 After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile,  
Gn4102 and behold, there came up out of the Nile seven cows, attractive and plump, and they fed in the reed grass.  
Gn4103 And behold, seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile after them, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile.  
Gn4104 And the ugly, thin cows ate up the seven attractive, plump cows. And Pharaoh awoke.  
Gn4105 And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time. And behold, seven ears of grain, plump and good, were growing on one stalk.  
Gn4106 And behold, after them sprouted seven ears, thin and blighted by the east wind.  
Gn4107 And the thin ears swallowed up the seven plump, full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.  
Gn4108 So in the morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was none who could interpret them to Pharaoh.  
Gn4109 Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “I remember my offenses today.  
Gn4110 When Pharaoh was angry with his servants and put me and the chief baker in custody in the house of the captain of the guard,  
Gn4111 we dreamed on the same night, he and I, each having a dream with its own interpretation.  
Gn4112 A young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. When we told him, he interpreted our dreams to us, giving an interpretation to each man according to his dream.  
Gn4113 And as he interpreted to us, so it came about. I was restored to my office, and the baker was hanged.”  
Gn4114 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they quickly brought him out of the pit. And when he had shaved himself and changed his clothes, he came in before Pharaoh.  
Gn4115 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”  
Gn4116 Joseph answered Pharaoh, “It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”  
Gn4117 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Behold, in my dream I was standing on the banks of the Nile.  
Gn4118 Seven cows, plump and attractive, came up out of the Nile and fed in the reed grass.  
Gn4119 Seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I had never seen in all the land of Egypt.  
Gn4120 And the thin, ugly cows ate up the first seven plump cows,  
Gn4121 but when they had eaten them no one would have known that they had eaten them, for they were still as ugly as at the beginning. Then I awoke.  
Gn4122 I also saw in my dream seven ears growing on one stalk, full and good.  
Gn4123 Seven ears, withered, thin, and blighted by the east wind, sprouted after them,  
Gn4124 and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”  
Gn4125 Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.  
Gn4126 The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dreams are one.  
Gn4127 The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also seven years of famine.  
Gn4128 It is as I told Pharaoh; God has shown to Pharaoh what he is about to do.  
Gn4129 There will come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt,  
Gn4130 but after them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,  
Gn4131 and the plenty will be unknown in the land by reason of the famine that will follow, for it will be very severe.  
Gn4132 And the doubling of Pharaoh’s dream means that the thing is fixed by God, and God will shortly bring it about.  
Gn4133 Now therefore let Pharaoh select a discerning and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.  
Gn4134 Let Pharaoh proceed to appoint overseers over the land and take one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven plentiful years.  
Gn4135 And let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming and store up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.  
Gn4136 That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine that are to occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine.”  
Gn4137 This proposal pleased Pharaoh and all his servants.  
Gn4138 And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, in whom is the Spirit of God?”  
Gn4139 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are.  
Gn4140 You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as regards the throne will I be greater than you.”  
Gn4141 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.”  
Gn4142 Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck.  
Gn4143 And he made him ride in his second chariot. And they called out before him, “Bow the knee!” Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.  
Gn4144 Moreover, Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no one shall lift up hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.”  
Gn4145 And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.  
Gn4146 Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.  
Gn4147 During the seven plentiful years the earth produced abundantly,  
Gn4148 and he gathered up all the food of these seven years, which occurred in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities. He put in every city the food from the fields around it.  
Gn4149 And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.  
Gn4150 Before the year of famine came, two sons were born to Joseph. Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore them to him.  
Gn4151 Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.”  
Gn4152 The name of the second he called Ephraim, “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”  
Gn4153 The seven years of plenty that occurred in the land of Egypt came to an end,  
Gn4154 and the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.  
Gn4155 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do.”  
Gn4156 So when the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.  
Gn4157 Moreover, all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.  
Gn4201 When Jacob learned that there was grain for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”  
Gn4202 And he said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt. Go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live and not die.”  
Gn4203 So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.  
Gn4204 But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with his brothers, for he feared that harm might happen to him.  
Gn4205 Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.  
Gn4206 Now Joseph was governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.  
Gn4207 Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke roughly to them. “Where do you come from?” he said. They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”  
Gn4208 And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.  
Gn4209 And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed of them. And he said to them, “You are spies; you have come to see the nakedness of the land.”  
Gn4210 They said to him, “No, my lord, your servants have come to buy food.  
Gn4211 We are all sons of one man. We are honest men. Your servants have never been spies.”  
Gn4212 He said to them, “No, it is the nakedness of the land that you have come to see.”  
Gn4213 And they said, “We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more.”  
Gn4214 But Joseph said to them, “It is as I said to you. You are spies.  
Gn4215 By this you shall be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.  
Gn4216 Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you remain confined, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. Or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies.”  
Gn4217 And he put them all together in custody for three days.  
Gn4218 On the third day Joseph said to them, “Do this and you will live, for I fear God:  
Gn4219 if you are honest men, let one of your brothers remain confined where you are in custody, and let the rest go and carry grain for the famine of your households,  
Gn4220 and bring your youngest brother to me. So your words will be verified, and you shall not die.” And they did so.  
Gn4221 Then they said to one another, “In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”  
Gn4222 And Reuben answered them, “Did I not tell you not to sin against the boy? But you did not listen. So now there comes a reckoning for his blood.”  
Gn4223 They did not know that Joseph understood them, for there was an interpreter between them.  
Gn4224 Then he turned away from them and wept. And he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.  
Gn4225 And Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, and to replace every man’s money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. This was done for them.  
Gn4226 Then they loaded their donkeys with their grain and departed.  
Gn4227 And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.  
Gn4228 He said to his brothers, “My money has been put back; here it is in the mouth of my sack!” At this their hearts failed them, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”  
Gn4229 When they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them, saying,  
Gn4230 “The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us and took us to be spies of the land.  
Gn4231 But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we have never been spies.  
Gn4232 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father. One is no more, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.’  
Gn4233 Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I shall know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your households, and go your way.  
Gn4234 Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I shall know that you are not spies but honest men, and I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’”  
Gn4235 As they emptied their sacks, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.  
Gn4236 And Jacob their father said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has come against me.”  
Gn4237 Then Reuben said to his father, “Kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my hands, and I will bring him back to you.”  
Gn4238 But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”  
Gn4301 Now the famine was severe in the land.  
Gn4302 And when they had eaten the grain that they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little food.”  
Gn4303 But Judah said to him, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.’  
Gn4304 If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food.  
Gn4305 But if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, ‘You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.’”  
Gn4306 Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly as to tell the man that you had another brother?”  
Gn4307 They replied, “The man questioned us carefully about ourselves and our kindred, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ What we told him was in answer to these questions. Could we in any way know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”  
Gn4308 And Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones.  
Gn4309 I will be a pledge of his safety. From my hand you shall require him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.  
Gn4310 If we had not delayed, we would now have returned twice.”  
Gn4311 Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry a present down to the man, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.  
Gn4312 Take double the money with you. Carry back with you the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.  
Gn4313 Take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man.  
Gn4314 May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”  
Gn4315 So the men took this present, and they took double the money with them, and Benjamin. They arose and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.  
Gn4316 When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, “Bring the men into the house, and slaughter an animal and make ready, for the men are to dine with me at noon.”  
Gn4317 The man did as Joseph told him and brought the men to Joseph’s house.  
Gn4318 And the men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph’s house, and they said, “It is because of the money, which was replaced in our sacks the first time, that we are brought in, so that he may assault us and fall upon us to make us servants and seize our donkeys.”  
Gn4319 So they went up to the steward of Joseph’s house and spoke with him at the door of the house,  
Gn4320 and said, “Oh, my lord, we came down the first time to buy food.  
Gn4321 And when we came to the lodging place we opened our sacks, and there was each man’s money in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. So we have brought it again with us,  
Gn4322 and we have brought other money down with us to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks.”  
Gn4323 He replied, “Peace to you, do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has put treasure in your sacks for you. I received your money.” Then he brought Simeon out to them.  
Gn4324 And when the man had brought the men into Joseph’s house and given them water, and they had washed their feet, and when he had given their donkeys fodder,  
Gn4325 they prepared the present for Joseph’s coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.  
Gn4326 When Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present that they had with them and bowed down to him to the ground.  
Gn4327 And he inquired about their welfare and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?”  
Gn4328 They said, “Your servant our father is well; he is still alive.” And they bowed their heads and prostrated themselves.  
Gn4329 And he lifted up his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? God be gracious to you, my son!”  
Gn4330 Then Joseph hurried out, for his compassion grew warm for his brother, and he sought a place to weep. And he entered his chamber and wept there.  
Gn4331 Then he washed his face and came out. And controlling himself he said, “Serve the food.”  
Gn4332 They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because the Egyptians could not eat with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.  
Gn4333 And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth. And the men looked at one another in amazement.  
Gn4334 Portions were taken to them from Joseph’s table, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank and were merry with him.  
Gn4401 Then he commanded the steward of his house, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack,  
Gn4402 and put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, with his money for the grain.” And he did as Joseph told him.  
Gn4403 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away with their donkeys.  
Gn4404 They had gone only a short distance from the city. Now Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid evil for good?  
Gn4405 Is it not from this that my lord drinks, and by this that he practices divination? You have done evil in doing this.’”  
Gn4406 When he overtook them, he spoke to them these words.  
Gn4407 They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!  
Gn4408 Behold, the money that we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord’s house?  
Gn4409 Whichever of your servants is found with it shall die, and we also will be my lord’s servants.”  
Gn4410 He said, “Let it be as you say: he who is found with it shall be my servant, and the rest of you shall be innocent.”  
Gn4411 Then each man quickly lowered his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack.  
Gn4412 And he searched, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest. And the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.  
Gn4413 Then they tore their clothes, and every man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.  
Gn4414 When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, he was still there. They fell before him to the ground.  
Gn4415 Joseph said to them, “What deed is this that you have done? Do you not know that a man like me can indeed practice divination?”  
Gn4416 And Judah said, “What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we and he also in whose hand the cup has been found.”  
Gn4417 But he said, “Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the man in whose hand the cup was found shall be my servant. But as for you, go up in peace to your father.”  
Gn4418 Then Judah went up to him and said, “Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself.  
Gn4419 My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’  
Gn4420 And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’  
Gn4421 Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.’  
Gn4422 We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father, for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’  
Gn4423 Then you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not see my face again.’  
Gn4424 “When we went back to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.  
Gn4425 And when our father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food,’  
Gn4426 we said, ‘We cannot go down. If our youngest brother goes with us, then we will go down. For we cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’  
Gn4427 Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons.  
Gn4428 One left me, and I said, “Surely he has been torn to pieces,” and I have never seen him since.  
Gn4429 If you take this one also from me, and harm happens to him, you will bring down my gray hairs in evil to Sheol.’  
Gn4430 “Now therefore, as soon as I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the boy’s life,  
Gn4431 as soon as he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.  
Gn4432 For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.’  
Gn4433 Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a servant to my lord, and let the boy go back with his brothers.  
Gn4434 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father.”  
Gn4501 Then Joseph could not control himself before all those who stood by him. He cried, “Make everyone go out from me.” So no one stayed with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers.  
Gn4502 And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard it.  
Gn4503 And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence.  
Gn4504 So Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” And they came near. And he said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.  
Gn4505 And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.  
Gn4506 For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.  
Gn4507 And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.  
Gn4508 So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.  
Gn4509 Hurry and go up to my father and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not tarry.  
Gn4510 You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children’s children, and your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.  
Gn4511 There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.’  
Gn4512 And now your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is my mouth that speaks to you.  
Gn4513 You must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. Hurry and bring my father down here.”  
Gn4514 Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck.  
Gn4515 And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. After that his brothers talked with him.  
Gn4516 When the report was heard in Pharaoh’s house, “Joseph’s brothers have come,” it pleased Pharaoh and his servants.  
Gn4517 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your beasts and go back to the land of Canaan,  
Gn4518 and take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.’  
Gn4519 And you, Joseph, are commanded to say, ‘Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.  
Gn4520 Have no concern for your goods, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.’”  
Gn4521 The sons of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.  
Gn4522 To each and all of them he gave a change of clothes, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five changes of clothes.  
Gn4523 To his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and provision for his father on the journey.  
Gn4524 Then he sent his brothers away, and as they departed, he said to them, “Do not quarrel on the way.”  
Gn4525 So they went up out of Egypt and came to the land of Canaan to their father Jacob.  
Gn4526 And they told him, “Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt.” And his heart became numb, for he did not believe them.  
Gn4527 But when they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.  
Gn4528 And Israel said, “It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”  
Gn4601 So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.  
Gn4602 And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.”  
Gn4603 Then he said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you into a great nation.  
Gn4604 I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph’s hand shall close your eyes.”  
Gn4605 Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.  
Gn4606 They also took their livestock and their goods, which they had gained in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,  
Gn4607 his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters. All his offspring he brought with him into Egypt.  
Gn4608 Now these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn,  
Gn4609 and the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.  
Gn4610 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.  
Gn4611 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.  
Gn4612 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan); and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.  
Gn4613 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Yob, and Shimron.  
Gn4614 The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.  
Gn4615 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, together with his daughter Dinah; altogether his sons and his daughters numbered thirty-three.  
Gn4616 The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.  
Gn4617 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, with Serah their sister. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.  
Gn4618 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob—sixteen persons.  
Gn4619 The sons of Rachel, Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.  
Gn4620 And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera the priest of On, bore to him.  
Gn4621 And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.  
Gn4622 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob—fourteen persons in all.  
Gn4623 The son of Dan: Hushim.  
Gn4624 The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.  
Gn4625 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob—seven persons in all.  
Gn4626 All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt, who were his own descendants, not including Jacob’s sons’ wives, were sixty-six persons in all.  
Gn4627 And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.  
Gn4628 He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him in Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.  
Gn4629 Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.  
Gn4630 Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.”  
Gn4631 Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh and will say to him, ‘My brothers and my father’s household, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.  
Gn4632 And the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’  
Gn4633 When Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’  
Gn4634 you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”  
Gn4701 So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen.”  
Gn4702 And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them to Pharaoh.  
Gn4703 Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, as our fathers were.”  
Gn4704 They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”  
Gn4705 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.  
Gn4706 The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them settle in the land of Goshen, and if you know any able men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”  
Gn4707 Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.  
Gn4708 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?”  
Gn4709 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”  
Gn4710 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.  
Gn4711 Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.  
Gn4712 And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their dependents.  
Gn4713 Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine.  
Gn4714 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they bought. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.  
Gn4715 And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone.”  
Gn4716 And Joseph answered, “Give your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money is gone.”  
Gn4717 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys. He supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year.  
Gn4718 And when that year was ended, they came to him the following year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent. The herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land.  
Gn4719 Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”  
Gn4720 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for all the Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe on them. The land became Pharaoh’s.  
Gn4721 As for the people, he made servants of them from one end of Egypt to the other.  
Gn4722 Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.  
Gn4723 Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.  
Gn4724 And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households, and as food for your little ones.”  
Gn4725 And they said, “You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh.”  
Gn4726 So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; the land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh’s.  
Gn4727 Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.  
Gn4728 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years.  
Gn4729 And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,  
Gn4730 but let me lie with my fathers. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place.” He answered, “I will do as you have said.”  
Gn4731 And he said, “Swear to me”; and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.  
Gn4801 After this, Joseph was told, “Behold, your father is ill.” So he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.  
Gn4802 And it was told to Jacob, “Your son Joseph has come to you.” Then Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed.  
Gn4803 And Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,  
Gn4804 and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’  
Gn4805 And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are.  
Gn4806 And the children that you fathered after them shall be yours. They shall be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance.  
Gn4807 As for me, when I came from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”  
Gn4808 When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he said, “Who are these?”  
Gn4809 Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” And he said, “Bring them to me, please, that I may bless them.”  
Gn4810 Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. So Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.  
Gn4811 And Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face; and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”  
Gn4812 Then Joseph removed them from his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.  
Gn4813 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near him.  
Gn4814 And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands (for Manasseh was the firstborn).  
Gn4815 And he blessed Joseph and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,  
Gn4816 the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the boys; and in them let my name be carried on, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”  
Gn4817 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.  
Gn4818 And Joseph said to his father, “Not this way, my father; since this one is the firstborn, put your right hand on his head.”  
Gn4819 But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”  
Gn4820 So he blessed them that day, saying, “By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh.’” Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.  
Gn4821 Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.  
Gn4822 Moreover, I have given to you rather than to your brothers one mountain slope that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.”  
Gn4901 Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in days to come.  
Gn4902 “Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob, listen to Israel your father.  
Gn4903 “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the firstfruits of my strength, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.  
Gn4904 Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence, because you went up to your father’s bed; then you defiled it—he went up to my couch!  
Gn4905 “Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords.  
Gn4906 Let my soul come not into their council; O my glory, be not joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and in their willfulness they hamstrung oxen.  
Gn4907 Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.  
Gn4908 “Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down before you.  
Gn4909 Judah is a lion’s cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?  
Gn4910 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.  
Gn4911 Binding his foal to the vine and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes.  
Gn4912 His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.  
Gn4913 “Zebulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea; he shall become a haven for ships, and his border shall be at Sidon.  
Gn4914 “Issachar is a strong donkey, crouching between the sheepfolds.  
Gn4915 He saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant, so he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant at forced labor.  
Gn4916 “Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.  
Gn4917 Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse’s heels so that his rider falls backward.  
Gn4918 I wait for your salvation, O LORD.  
Gn4919 “Raiders shall raid Gad, but he shall raid at their heels.  
Gn4920 “Asher’s food shall be rich, and he shall yield royal delicacies.  
Gn4921 “Naphtali is a doe let loose that bears beautiful fawns.  
Gn4922 “Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.  
Gn4923 The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him severely,  
Gn4924 yet his bow remained unmoved; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),  
Gn4925 by the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.  
Gn4926 The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents, up to the bounties of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.  
Gn4927 “Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey and at evening dividing the spoil.”  
Gn4928 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him.  
Gn4929 Then he commanded them and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,  
Gn4930 in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.  
Gn4931 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah—  
Gn4932 the field and the cave that is in it were bought from the Hittites.”  
Gn4933 When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.  
Gn5001 Then Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him.  
Gn5002 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.  
Gn5003 Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.  
Gn5004 And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,  
Gn5005 ‘My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.” Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return.’”  
Gn5006 And Pharaoh answered, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.”  
Gn5007 So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,  
Gn5008 as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen.  
Gn5009 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.  
Gn5010 When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.  
Gn5011 When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim; it is beyond the Jordan.  
Gn5012 Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them,  
Gn5013 for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.  
Gn5014 After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.  
Gn5015 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us and pay us back for all the evil that we did to him.”  
Gn5016 So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father gave this command before he died:  
Gn5017 ‘Say to Joseph, “Please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.  
Gn5018 His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.”  
Gn5019 But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God?  
Gn5020 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.  
Gn5021 So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.  
Gn5022 So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and his father’s house. Joseph lived 110 years.  
Gn5023 And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were counted as Joseph’s own.  
Gn5024 And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”  
Gn5025 Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”  
Gn5026 So Joseph died, being 110 years old. They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.  
Ex0101 These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:  
Ex0102 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,  
Ex0103 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,  
Ex0104 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.  
Ex0105 All the descendants of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.  
Ex0106 Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.  
Ex0107 But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.  
Ex0108 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.  
Ex0109 And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.  
Ex0110 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”  
Ex0111 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.  
Ex0112 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.  
Ex0113 So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves  
Ex0114 and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.  
Ex0115 Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,  
Ex0116 “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”  
Ex0117 But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.  
Ex0118 So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the male children live?”  
Ex0119 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”  
Ex0120 So God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong.  
Ex0121 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.  
Ex0122 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”  
Ex0201 Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman.  
Ex0202 The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.  
Ex0203 When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.  
Ex0204 And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.  
Ex0205 Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it.  
Ex0206 When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”  
Ex0207 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”  
Ex0208 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother.  
Ex0209 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.  
Ex0210 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”  
Ex0211 One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.  
Ex0212 He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.  
Ex0213 When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, “Why do you strike your companion?”  
Ex0214 He answered, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing is known.”  
Ex0215 When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well.  
Ex0216 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.  
Ex0217 The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock.  
Ex0218 When they came home to their father Reuel, he said, “How is it that you have come home so soon today?”  
Ex0219 They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and watered the flock.”  
Ex0220 He said to his daughters, “Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”  
Ex0221 And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.  
Ex0222 She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”  
Ex0223 During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.  
Ex0224 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.  
Ex0225 God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.  
Ex0301 Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.  
Ex0302 And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.  
Ex0303 And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”  
Ex0304 When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”  
Ex0305 Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”  
Ex0306 And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.  
Ex0307 Then the LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings,  
Ex0308 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.  
Ex0309 And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.  
Ex0310 Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”  
Ex0311 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”  
Ex0312 He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”  
Ex0313 Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?”  
Ex0314 God said to Moses, “ I AM WHO I AM.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘ I AM has sent me to you.’”  
Ex0315 God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.  
Ex0316 Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt,  
Ex0317 and I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.”’  
Ex0318 And they will listen to your voice, and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’  
Ex0319 But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand.  
Ex0320 So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all the wonders that I will do in it; after that he will let you go.  
Ex0321 And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and when you go, you shall not go empty,  
Ex0322 but each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and any woman who lives in her house, for silver and gold jewelry, and for clothing. You shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. So you shall plunder the Egyptians.”  
Ex0401 Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you.’”  
Ex0402 The LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.”  
Ex0403 And he said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it.  
Ex0404 But the LORD said to Moses, “Put out your hand and catch it by the tail”—so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand—  
Ex0405 “that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”  
Ex0406 Again, the LORD said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow.  
Ex0407 Then God said, “Put your hand back inside your cloak.” So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.  
Ex0408 “If they will not believe you,” God said, “or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign.  
Ex0409 If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”  
Ex0410 But Moses said to the LORD, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.”  
Ex0411 Then the LORD said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?  
Ex0412 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.”  
Ex0413 But he said, “Oh, my Lord, please send someone else.”  
Ex0414 Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses and he said, “Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.  
Ex0415 You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do.  
Ex0416 He shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and you shall be as God to him.  
Ex0417 And take in your hand this staff, with which you shall do the signs.”  
Ex0418 Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”  
Ex0419 And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”  
Ex0420 So Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand.  
Ex0421 And the LORD said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.  
Ex0422 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the LORD, Israel is my firstborn son,  
Ex0423 and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve me.” If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.’”  
Ex0424 At a lodging place on the way the LORD met him and sought to put him to death.  
Ex0425 Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!”  
Ex0426 So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.  
Ex0427 The LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.  
Ex0428 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD with which he had sent him to speak, and all the signs that he had commanded him to do.  
Ex0429 Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of Israel.  
Ex0430 Aaron spoke all the words that the LORD had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people.  
Ex0431 And the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped.  
Ex0501 Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’”  
Ex0502 But Pharaoh said, “Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.”  
Ex0503 Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”  
Ex0504 But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens.”  
Ex0505 And Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens!”  
Ex0506 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen,  
Ex0507 “You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves.  
Ex0508 But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’  
Ex0509 Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.”  
Ex0510 So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not give you straw.  
Ex0511 Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.’”  
Ex0512 So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.  
Ex0513 The taskmasters were urgent, saying, “Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.”  
Ex0514 And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?”  
Ex0515 Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, “Why do you treat your servants like this?  
Ex0516 No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”  
Ex0517 But he said, “You are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the LORD.’  
Ex0518 Go now and work. No straw will be given you, but you must still deliver the same number of bricks.”  
Ex0519 The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said, “You shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily task each day.”  
Ex0520 They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came out from Pharaoh;  
Ex0521 and they said to them, “The LORD look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.”  
Ex0522 Then Moses turned to the LORD and said, “O Lord, why have you done evil to this people? Why did you ever send me?  
Ex0523 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have not delivered your people at all.”  
Ex0601 But the LORD said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”  
Ex0602 God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD.  
Ex0603 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.  
Ex0604 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners.  
Ex0605 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.  
Ex0606 Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.  
Ex0607 I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.  
Ex0608 I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the LORD.’”  
Ex0609 Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery.  
Ex0610 So the LORD said to Moses,  
Ex0611 “Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land.”  
Ex0612 But Moses said to the LORD, “Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?”  
Ex0613 But the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge about the people of Israel and about Pharaoh king of Egypt: to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.  
Ex0614 These are the heads of their fathers’ houses: the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the clans of Reuben.  
Ex0615 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the clans of Simeon.  
Ex0616 These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, the years of the life of Levi being 137 years.  
Ex0617 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, by their clans.  
Ex0618 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, the years of the life of Kohath being 133 years.  
Ex0619 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their generations.  
Ex0620 Amram took as his wife Jochebed his father’s sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being 137 years.  
Ex0621 The sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.  
Ex0622 The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.  
Ex0623 Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and the sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.  
Ex0624 The sons of Korah: Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the clans of the Korahites.  
Ex0625 Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites by their clans.  
Ex0626 These are the Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said: “Bring out the people of Israel from the land of Egypt by their hosts.”  
Ex0627 It was they who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the people of Israel from Egypt, this Moses and this Aaron.  
Ex0628 On the day when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,  
Ex0629 the LORD said to Moses, “I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.”  
Ex0630 But Moses said to the LORD, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips. How will Pharaoh listen to me?”  
Ex0701 And the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.  
Ex0702 You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land.  
Ex0703 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,  
Ex0704 Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.  
Ex0705 The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.”  
Ex0706 Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the LORD commanded them.  
Ex0707 Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.  
Ex0708 Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,  
Ex0709 “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Prove yourselves by working a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’”  
Ex0710 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD commanded. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.  
Ex0711 Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts.  
Ex0712 For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.  
Ex0713 Still Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.  
Ex0714 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go.  
Ex0715 Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water. Stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that turned into a serpent.  
Ex0716 And you shall say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness.” But so far, you have not obeyed.  
Ex0717 Thus says the LORD, “By this you shall know that I am the LORD: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood.  
Ex0718 The fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will grow weary of drinking water from the Nile.”’”  
Ex0719 And the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”  
Ex0720 Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile turned into blood.  
Ex0721 And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.  
Ex0722 But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts. So Pharaoh’s heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.  
Ex0723 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart.  
Ex0724 And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.  
Ex0725 Seven full days passed after the LORD had struck the Nile.  
Ex0801 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.  
Ex0802 But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs.  
Ex0803 The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls.  
Ex0804 The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your servants.”’”  
Ex0805 And the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt!’”  
Ex0806 So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.  
Ex0807 But the magicians did the same by their secret arts and made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.  
Ex0808 Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, “Plead with the LORD to take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.”  
Ex0809 Moses said to Pharaoh, “Be pleased to command me when I am to plead for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be cut off from you and your houses and be left only in the Nile.”  
Ex0810 And he said, “Tomorrow.” Moses said, “Be it as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.  
Ex0811 The frogs shall go away from you and your houses and your servants and your people. They shall be left only in the Nile.”  
Ex0812 So Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the LORD about the frogs, as he had agreed with Pharaoh.  
Ex0813 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses. The frogs died out in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields.  
Ex0814 And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.  
Ex0815 But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.  
Ex0816 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, so that it may become gnats in all the land of Egypt.’”  
Ex0817 And they did so. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and there were gnats on man and beast. All the dust of the earth became gnats in all the land of Egypt.  
Ex0818 The magicians tried by their secret arts to produce gnats, but they could not. So there were gnats on man and beast.  
Ex0819 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.  
Ex0820 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh, as he goes out to the water, and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.  
Ex0821 Or else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and your servants and your people, and into your houses. And the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand.  
Ex0822 But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.  
Ex0823 Thus I will put a division between my people and your people. Tomorrow this sign shall happen.”’”  
Ex0824 And the LORD did so. There came great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants’ houses. Throughout all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by the swarms of flies.  
Ex0825 Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.”  
Ex0826 But Moses said, “It would not be right to do so, for the offerings we shall sacrifice to the LORD our God are an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice offerings abominable to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?  
Ex0827 We must go three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as he tells us.”  
Ex0828 So Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you must not go very far away. Plead for me.”  
Ex0829 Then Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you and I will plead with the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow. Only let not Pharaoh cheat again by not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.”  
Ex0830 So Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD.  
Ex0831 And the LORD did as Moses asked, and removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one remained.  
Ex0832 But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and did not let the people go.  
Ex0901 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.  
Ex0902 For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,  
Ex0903 behold, the hand of the LORD will fall with a very severe plague upon your livestock that are in the field, the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.  
Ex0904 But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing of all that belongs to the people of Israel shall die.”’”  
Ex0905 And the LORD set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the LORD will do this thing in the land.”  
Ex0906 And the next day the LORD did this thing. All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one of the livestock of the people of Israel died.  
Ex0907 And Pharaoh sent, and behold, not one of the livestock of Israel was dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.  
Ex0908 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from the kiln, and let Moses throw them in the air in the sight of Pharaoh.  
Ex0909 It shall become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and become boils breaking out in sores on man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt.”  
Ex0910 So they took soot from the kiln and stood before Pharaoh. And Moses threw it in the air, and it became boils breaking out in sores on man and beast.  
Ex0911 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils came upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians.  
Ex0912 But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had spoken to Moses.  
Ex0913 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.  
Ex0914 For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.  
Ex0915 For by now I could have put out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.  
Ex0916 But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.  
Ex0917 You are still exalting yourself against my people and will not let them go.  
Ex0918 Behold, about this time tomorrow I will cause very heavy hail to fall, such as never has been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.  
Ex0919 Now therefore send, get your livestock and all that you have in the field into safe shelter, for every man and beast that is in the field and is not brought home will die when the hail falls on them.”’”  
Ex0920 Then whoever feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh hurried his slaves and his livestock into the houses,  
Ex0921 but whoever did not pay attention to the word of the LORD left his slaves and his livestock in the field.  
Ex0922 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man and beast and every plant of the field, in the land of Egypt.”  
Ex0923 Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.  
Ex0924 There was hail and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.  
Ex0925 The hail struck down everything that was in the field in all the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And the hail struck down every plant of the field and broke every tree of the field.  
Ex0926 Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, was there no hail.  
Ex0927 Then Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, “This time I have sinned; the LORD is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.  
Ex0928 Plead with the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”  
Ex0929 Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.  
Ex0930 But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the LORD God.”  
Ex0931 (The flax and the barley were struck down, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.  
Ex0932 But the wheat and the emmer were not struck down, for they are late in coming up.)  
Ex0933 So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and stretched out his hands to the LORD, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth.  
Ex0934 But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again and hardened his heart, he and his servants.  
Ex0935 So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go, just as the LORD had spoken through Moses.  
Ex1001 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of mine among them,  
Ex1002 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of your grandson how I have dealt harshly with the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them, that you may know that I am the LORD.”  
Ex1003 So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.  
Ex1004 For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,  
Ex1005 and they shall cover the face of the land, so that no one can see the land. And they shall eat what is left to you after the hail, and they shall eat every tree of yours that grows in the field,  
Ex1006 and they shall fill your houses and the houses of all your servants and of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day they came on earth to this day.’” Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.  
Ex1007 Then Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God. Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined?”  
Ex1008 So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. And he said to them, “Go, serve the LORD your God. But which ones are to go?”  
Ex1009 Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old. We will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”  
Ex1010 But he said to them, “The LORD be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Look, you have some evil purpose in mind.  
Ex1011 No! Go, the men among you, and serve the LORD, for that is what you are asking.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.  
Ex1012 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left.”  
Ex1013 So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts.  
Ex1014 The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled on the whole country of Egypt, such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before, nor ever will be again.  
Ex1015 They covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt.  
Ex1016 Then Pharaoh hastily called Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.  
Ex1017 Now therefore, forgive my sin, please, only this once, and plead with the LORD your God only to remove this death from me.”  
Ex1018 So he went out from Pharaoh and pleaded with the LORD.  
Ex1019 And the LORD turned the wind into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt.  
Ex1020 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go.  
Ex1021 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.”  
Ex1022 So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.  
Ex1023 They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the people of Israel had light where they lived.  
Ex1024 Then Pharaoh called Moses and said, “Go, serve the LORD; your little ones also may go with you; only let your flocks and your herds remain behind.”  
Ex1025 But Moses said, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.  
Ex1026 Our livestock also must go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for we must take of them to serve the LORD our God, and we do not know with what we must serve the LORD until we arrive there.”  
Ex1027 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go.  
Ex1028 Then Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me; take care never to see my face again, for on the day you see my face you shall die.”  
Ex1029 Moses said, “As you say! I will not see your face again.”  
Ex1101 The LORD said to Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely.  
Ex1102 Speak now in the hearing of the people, that they ask, every man of his neighbor and every woman of her neighbor, for silver and gold jewelry.”  
Ex1103 And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants and in the sight of the people.  
Ex1104 So Moses said, “Thus says the LORD: ‘About midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt,  
Ex1105 and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.  
Ex1106 There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again.  
Ex1107 But not a dog shall growl against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.’  
Ex1108 And all these your servants shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, ‘Get out, you and all the people who follow you.’ And after that I will go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.  
Ex1109 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”  
Ex1110 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.  
Ex1201 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,  
Ex1202 “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.  
Ex1203 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household.  
Ex1204 And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.  
Ex1205 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats,  
Ex1206 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.  
Ex1207 “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.  
Ex1208 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.  
Ex1209 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.  
Ex1210 And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.  
Ex1211 In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD’s Passover.  
Ex1212 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.  
Ex1213 The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.  
Ex1214 “This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.  
Ex1215 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.  
Ex1216 On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you.  
Ex1217 And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever.  
Ex1218 In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.  
Ex1219 For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land.  
Ex1220 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.”  
Ex1221 Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb.  
Ex1222 Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.  
Ex1223 For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.  
Ex1224 You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever.  
Ex1225 And when you come to the land that the LORD will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service.  
Ex1226 And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’  
Ex1227 you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.  
Ex1228 Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.  
Ex1229 At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.  
Ex1230 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead.  
Ex1231 Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said.  
Ex1232 Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!”  
Ex1233 The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.”  
Ex1234 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.  
Ex1235 The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing.  
Ex1236 And the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.  
Ex1237 And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.  
Ex1238 A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds.  
Ex1239 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.  
Ex1240 The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.  
Ex1241 At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.  
Ex1242 It was a night of watching by the LORD, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the LORD by all the people of Israel throughout their generations.  
Ex1243 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it,  
Ex1244 but every slave that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him.  
Ex1245 No foreigner or hired worker may eat of it.  
Ex1246 It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and you shall not break any of its bones.  
Ex1247 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.  
Ex1248 If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.  
Ex1249 There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.”  
Ex1250 All the people of Israel did just as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron.  
Ex1251 And on that very day the LORD brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.  
Ex1301 The LORD said to Moses,  
Ex1302 “Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”  
Ex1303 Then Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by a strong hand the LORD brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.  
Ex1304 Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out.  
Ex1305 And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month.  
Ex1306 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.  
Ex1307 Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory.  
Ex1308 You shall tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’  
Ex1309 And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.  
Ex1310 You shall therefore keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year.  
Ex1311 “When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and your fathers, and shall give it to you,  
Ex1312 you shall set apart to the LORD all that first opens the womb. All the firstborn of your animals that are males shall be the LORD’s.  
Ex1313 Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. Every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem.  
Ex1314 And when in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, ‘By a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.  
Ex1315 For when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of animals. Therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all the males that first open the womb, but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’  
Ex1316 It shall be as a mark on your hand or frontlets between your eyes, for by a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”  
Ex1317 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, “Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.”  
Ex1318 But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle.  
Ex1319 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here.”  
Ex1320 And they moved on from Succoth and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness.  
Ex1321 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night.  
Ex1322 The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.  
Ex1401 Then the LORD said to Moses,  
Ex1402 “Tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; you shall encamp facing it, by the sea.  
Ex1403 For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are wandering in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’  
Ex1404 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD.” And they did so.  
Ex1405 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, the mind of Pharaoh and his servants was changed toward the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”  
Ex1406 So he made ready his chariot and took his army with him,  
Ex1407 and took six hundred chosen chariots and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them.  
Ex1408 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the people of Israel while the people of Israel were going out defiantly.  
Ex1409 The Egyptians pursued them, all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and his horsemen and his army, and overtook them encamped at the sea, by Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.  
Ex1410 When Pharaoh drew near, the people of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they feared greatly. And the people of Israel cried out to the LORD.  
Ex1411 They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt?  
Ex1412 Is not this what we said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”  
Ex1413 And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.  
Ex1414 The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”  
Ex1415 The LORD said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward.  
Ex1416 Lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground.  
Ex1417 And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen.  
Ex1418 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen.”  
Ex1419 Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them,  
Ex1420 coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night without one coming near the other all night.  
Ex1421 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.  
Ex1422 And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.  
Ex1423 The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.  
Ex1424 And in the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic,  
Ex1425 clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians.”  
Ex1426 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.”  
Ex1427 So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the LORD threw the Egyptians into the midst of the sea.  
Ex1428 The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained.  
Ex1429 But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.  
Ex1430 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.  
Ex1431 Israel saw the great power that the LORD used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.  
Ex1501 Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD, saying, “I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.  
Ex1502 The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.  
Ex1503 The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his name.  
Ex1504 “Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea.  
Ex1505 The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.  
Ex1506 Your right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.  
Ex1507 In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble.  
Ex1508 At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up; the floods stood up in a heap; the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.  
Ex1509 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’  
Ex1510 You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.  
Ex1511 “Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?  
Ex1512 You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them.  
Ex1513 “You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed; you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.  
Ex1514 The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.  
Ex1515 Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed; trembling seizes the leaders of Moab; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.  
Ex1516 Terror and dread fall upon them; because of the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone, till your people, O LORD, pass by, till the people pass by whom you have purchased.  
Ex1517 You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain, the place, O LORD, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.  
Ex1518 The LORD will reign forever and ever.”  
Ex1519 For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea.  
Ex1520 Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.  
Ex1521 And Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”  
Ex1522 Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water.  
Ex1523 When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.  
Ex1524 And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”  
Ex1525 And he cried to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them,  
Ex1526 saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, your healer.”  
Ex1527 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.  
Ex1601 They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.  
Ex1602 And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,  
Ex1603 and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”  
Ex1604 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.  
Ex1605 On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.”  
Ex1606 So Moses and Aaron said to all the people of Israel, “At evening you shall know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt,  
Ex1607 and in the morning you shall see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your grumbling against the LORD. For what are we, that you grumble against us?”  
Ex1608 And Moses said, “When the LORD gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the LORD has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the LORD.”  
Ex1609 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Say to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, ‘Come near before the LORD, for he has heard your grumbling.’”  
Ex1610 And as soon as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.  
Ex1611 And the LORD said to Moses,  
Ex1612 “I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, ‘At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the LORD your God.’”  
Ex1613 In the evening quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning dew lay around the camp.  
Ex1614 And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground.  
Ex1615 When the people of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.  
Ex1616 This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Gather of it, each one of you, as much as he can eat. You shall each take an omer, according to the number of the persons that each of you has in his tent.’”  
Ex1617 And the people of Israel did so. They gathered, some more, some less.  
Ex1618 But when they measured it with an omer, whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack. Each of them gathered as much as he could eat.  
Ex1619 And Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it over till the morning.”  
Ex1620 But they did not listen to Moses. Some left part of it till the morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them.  
Ex1621 Morning by morning they gathered it, each as much as he could eat; but when the sun grew hot, it melted.  
Ex1622 On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers each. And when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,  
Ex1623 he said to them, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till the morning.’”  
Ex1624 So they laid it aside till the morning, as Moses commanded them, and it did not stink, and there were no worms in it.  
Ex1625 Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the field.  
Ex1626 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.”  
Ex1627 On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none.  
Ex1628 And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?  
Ex1629 See! The LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”  
Ex1630 So the people rested on the seventh day.  
Ex1631 Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.  
Ex1632 Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Let an omer of it be kept throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”  
Ex1633 And Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar, and put an omer of manna in it, and place it before the LORD to be kept throughout your generations.”  
Ex1634 As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the testimony to be kept.  
Ex1635 The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.  
Ex1636 (An omer is the tenth part of an ephah.)  
Ex1701 All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.  
Ex1702 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?”  
Ex1703 But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”  
Ex1704 So Moses cried to the LORD, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.”  
Ex1705 And the LORD said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.  
Ex1706 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.  
Ex1707 And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the LORD by saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”  
Ex1708 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim.  
Ex1709 So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”  
Ex1710 So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.  
Ex1711 Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed.  
Ex1712 But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.  
Ex1713 And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword.  
Ex1714 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”  
Ex1715 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The LORD Is My Banner,  
Ex1716 saying, “A hand upon the throne of the LORD! The LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”  
Ex1801 Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.  
Ex1802 Now Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, had taken Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her home,  
Ex1803 along with her two sons. The name of the one was Gershom (for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land”),  
Ex1804 and the name of the other, Eliezer (for he said, “The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh”).  
Ex1805 Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was encamped at the mountain of God.  
Ex1806 And when he sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her,”  
Ex1807 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. And they asked each other of their welfare and went into the tent.  
Ex1808 Then Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardship that had come upon them in the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.  
Ex1809 And Jethro rejoiced for all the good that the LORD had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.  
Ex1810 Jethro said, “Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh and has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.  
Ex1811 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods, because in this affair they dealt arrogantly with the people.”  
Ex1812 And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God; and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.  
Ex1813 The next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning till evening.  
Ex1814 When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning till evening?”  
Ex1815 And Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God;  
Ex1816 when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws.”  
Ex1817 Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.  
Ex1818 You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone.  
Ex1819 Now obey my voice; I will give you advice, and God be with you! You shall represent the people before God and bring their cases to God,  
Ex1820 and you shall warn them about the statutes and the laws, and make them know the way in which they must walk and what they must do.  
Ex1821 Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.  
Ex1822 And let them judge the people at all times. Every great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall decide themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.  
Ex1823 If you do this, God will direct you, you will be able to endure, and all this people also will go to their place in peace.”  
Ex1824 So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.  
Ex1825 Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.  
Ex1826 And they judged the people at all times. Any hard case they brought to Moses, but any small matter they decided themselves.  
Ex1827 Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went away to his own country.  
Ex1901 On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.  
Ex1902 They set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamped in the wilderness. There Israel encamped before the mountain,  
Ex1903 while Moses went up to God. The LORD called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel:  
Ex1904 ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.  
Ex1905 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;  
Ex1906 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”  
Ex1907 So Moses came and called the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him.  
Ex1908 All the people answered together and said, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do.” And Moses reported the words of the people to the LORD.  
Ex1909 And the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” When Moses told the words of the people to the LORD,  
Ex1910 the LORD said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments  
Ex1911 and be ready for the third day. For on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.  
Ex1912 And you shall set limits for the people all around, saying, ‘Take care not to go up into the mountain or touch the edge of it. Whoever touches the mountain shall be put to death.  
Ex1913 No hand shall touch him, but he shall be stoned or shot; whether beast or man, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.”  
Ex1914 So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and consecrated the people; and they washed their garments.  
Ex1915 And he said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman.”  
Ex1916 On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled.  
Ex1917 Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain.  
Ex1918 Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly.  
Ex1919 And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder.  
Ex1920 The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. And the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.  
Ex1921 And the LORD said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to look and many of them perish.  
Ex1922 Also let the priests who come near to the LORD consecrate themselves, lest the LORD break out against them.”  
Ex1923 And Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for you yourself warned us, saying, ‘Set limits around the mountain and consecrate it.’”  
Ex1924 And the LORD said to him, “Go down, and come up bringing Aaron with you. But do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the LORD, lest he break out against them.”  
Ex1925 So Moses went down to the people and told them.  
Ex2001 And God spoke all these words, saying,  
Ex2002 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.  
Ex2003 “You shall have no other gods before me.  
Ex2004 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.  
Ex2005 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,  
Ex2006 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.  
Ex2007 “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.  
Ex2008 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.  
Ex2009 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work,  
Ex2010 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.  
Ex2011 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.  
Ex2012 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.  
Ex2013 “You shall not murder.  
Ex2014 “You shall not commit adultery.  
Ex2015 “You shall not steal.  
Ex2016 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.  
Ex2017 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”  
Ex2018 Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off  
Ex2019 and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”  
Ex2020 Moses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to test you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.”  
Ex2021 The people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.  
Ex2022 And the LORD said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the people of Israel: ‘You have seen for yourselves that I have talked with you from heaven.  
Ex2023 You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.  
Ex2024 An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you.  
Ex2025 If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it.  
Ex2026 And you shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.’  
Ex2101 “Now these are the rules that you shall set before them.  
Ex2102 When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.  
Ex2103 If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him.  
Ex2104 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out alone.  
Ex2105 But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’  
Ex2106 then his master shall bring him to God, and he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall be his slave forever.  
Ex2107 “When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do.  
Ex2108 If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her.  
Ex2109 If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a daughter.  
Ex2110 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.  
Ex2111 And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.  
Ex2112 “Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death.  
Ex2113 But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee.  
Ex2114 But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.  
Ex2115 “Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.  
Ex2116 “Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.  
Ex2117 “Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.  
Ex2118 “When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed,  
Ex2119 then if the man rises again and walks outdoors with his staff, he who struck him shall be clear; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall have him thoroughly healed.  
Ex2120 “When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged.  
Ex2121 But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.  
Ex2122 “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman’s husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine.  
Ex2123 But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life,  
Ex2124 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,  
Ex2125 burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.  
Ex2126 “When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye.  
Ex2127 If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth.  
Ex2128 “When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall not be liable.  
Ex2129 But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.  
Ex2130 If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed on him.  
Ex2131 If it gores a man’s son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule.  
Ex2132 If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.  
Ex2133 “When a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,  
Ex2134 the owner of the pit shall make restoration. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead beast shall be his.  
Ex2135 “When one man’s ox butts another’s, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and share its price, and the dead beast also they shall share.  
Ex2136 Or if it is known that the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall repay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his.  
Ex2201 “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.  
Ex2202 If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him,  
Ex2203 but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.  
Ex2204 If the stolen beast is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he shall pay double.  
Ex2205 “If a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard.  
Ex2206 “If fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he who started the fire shall make full restitution.  
Ex2207 “If a man gives to his neighbor money or goods to keep safe, and it is stolen from the man’s house, then, if the thief is found, he shall pay double.  
Ex2208 If the thief is not found, the owner of the house shall come near to God to show whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor’s property.  
Ex2209 For every breach of trust, whether it is for an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep, for a cloak, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, ‘This is it,’ the case of both parties shall come before God. The one whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.  
Ex2210 “If a man gives to his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep safe, and it dies or is injured or is driven away, without anyone seeing it,  
Ex2211 an oath by the LORD shall be between them both to see whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor’s property. The owner shall accept the oath, and he shall not make restitution.  
Ex2212 But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.  
Ex2213 If it is torn by beasts, let him bring it as evidence. He shall not make restitution for what has been torn.  
Ex2214 “If a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it is injured or dies, the owner not being with it, he shall make full restitution.  
Ex2215 If the owner was with it, he shall not make restitution; if it was hired, it came for its hiring fee.  
Ex2216 “If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife.  
Ex2217 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.  
Ex2218 “You shall not permit a sorceress to live.  
Ex2219 “Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death.  
Ex2220 “Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the LORD alone, shall be devoted to destruction.  
Ex2221 “You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.  
Ex2222 You shall not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.  
Ex2223 If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry,  
Ex2224 and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.  
Ex2225 “If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him.  
Ex2226 If ever you take your neighbor’s cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,  
Ex2227 for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.  
Ex2228 “You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.  
Ex2229 “You shall not delay to offer from the fullness of your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to me.  
Ex2230 You shall do the same with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it shall be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.  
Ex2231 “You shall be consecrated to me. Therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.  
Ex2301 “You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness.  
Ex2302 You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,  
Ex2303 nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.  
Ex2304 “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him.  
Ex2305 If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him.  
Ex2306 “You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in his lawsuit.  
Ex2307 Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.  
Ex2308 And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.  
Ex2309 “You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.  
Ex2310 “For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield,  
Ex2311 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.  
Ex2312 “Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.  
Ex2313 “Pay attention to all that I have said to you, and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.  
Ex2314 “Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.  
Ex2315 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear before me empty-handed.  
Ex2316 You shall keep the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.  
Ex2317 Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord GOD.  
Ex2318 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the fat of my feast remain until the morning.  
Ex2319 “The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.  
Ex2320 “Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.  
Ex2321 Pay careful attention to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, for he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.  
Ex2322 “But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.  
Ex2323 “When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I blot them out,  
Ex2324 you shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces.  
Ex2325 You shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.  
Ex2326 None shall miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.  
Ex2327 I will send my terror before you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.  
Ex2328 And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.  
Ex2329 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you.  
Ex2330 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land.  
Ex2331 And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.  
Ex2332 You shall make no covenant with them and their gods.  
Ex2333 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”  
Ex2401 Then he said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar.  
Ex2402 Moses alone shall come near to the LORD, but the others shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him.”  
Ex2403 Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the rules. And all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words that the LORD has spoken we will do.”  
Ex2404 And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.  
Ex2405 And he sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the LORD.  
Ex2406 And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he threw against the altar.  
Ex2407 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”  
Ex2408 And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”  
Ex2409 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up,  
Ex2410 and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.  
Ex2411 And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank.  
Ex2412 The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.”  
Ex2413 So Moses rose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God.  
Ex2414 And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever has a dispute, let him go to them.”  
Ex2415 Then Moses went up on the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.  
Ex2416 The glory of the LORD dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.  
Ex2417 Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel.  
Ex2418 Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.  
Ex2501 The LORD said to Moses,  
Ex2502 “Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me.  
Ex2503 And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze,  
Ex2504 blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats’ hair,  
Ex2505 tanned rams’ skins, goatskins, acacia wood,  
Ex2506 oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,  
Ex2507 onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.  
Ex2508 And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst.  
Ex2509 Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.  
Ex2510 “They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.  
Ex2511 You shall overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside shall you overlay it, and you shall make on it a molding of gold around it.  
Ex2512 You shall cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.  
Ex2513 You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.  
Ex2514 And you shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark by them.  
Ex2515 The poles shall remain in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it.  
Ex2516 And you shall put into the ark the testimony that I shall give you.  
Ex2517 “You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.  
Ex2518 And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat.  
Ex2519 Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends.  
Ex2520 The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.  
Ex2521 And you shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I shall give you.  
Ex2522 There I will meet with you, and from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.  
Ex2523 “You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.  
Ex2524 You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a molding of gold around it.  
Ex2525 And you shall make a rim around it a handbreadth wide, and a molding of gold around the rim.  
Ex2526 And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs.  
Ex2527 Close to the frame the rings shall lie, as holders for the poles to carry the table.  
Ex2528 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these.  
Ex2529 And you shall make its plates and dishes for incense, and its flagons and bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold.  
Ex2530 And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.  
Ex2531 “You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand shall be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.  
Ex2532 And there shall be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it;  
Ex2533 three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.  
Ex2534 And on the lampstand itself there shall be four cups made like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and flowers,  
Ex2535 and a calyx of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand.  
Ex2536 Their calyxes and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it a single piece of hammered work of pure gold.  
Ex2537 You shall make seven lamps for it. And the lamps shall be set up so as to give light on the space in front of it.  
Ex2538 Its tongs and their trays shall be of pure gold.  
Ex2539 It shall be made, with all these utensils, out of a talent of pure gold.  
Ex2540 And see that you make them after the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain.  
Ex2601 “Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.  
Ex2602 The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall be the same size.  
Ex2603 Five curtains shall be coupled to one another, and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another.  
Ex2604 And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set. Likewise you shall make loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.  
Ex2605 Fifty loops you shall make on the one curtain, and fifty loops you shall make on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops shall be opposite one another.  
Ex2606 And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to the other with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be a single whole.  
Ex2607 “You shall also make curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains shall you make.  
Ex2608 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains shall be the same size.  
Ex2609 You shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and the sixth curtain you shall double over at the front of the tent.  
Ex2610 You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set.  
Ex2611 “You shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together that it may be a single whole.  
Ex2612 And the part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.  
Ex2613 And the extra that remains in the length of the curtains, the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and that side, to cover it.  
Ex2614 And you shall make for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and a covering of goatskins on top.  
Ex2615 “You shall make upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.  
Ex2616 Ten cubits shall be the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame.  
Ex2617 There shall be two tenons in each frame, for fitting together. So shall you do for all the frames of the tabernacle.  
Ex2618 You shall make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side;  
Ex2619 and forty bases of silver you shall make under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under the next frame for its two tenons;  
Ex2620 and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side twenty frames,  
Ex2621 and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame, and two bases under the next frame.  
Ex2622 And for the rear of the tabernacle westward you shall make six frames.  
Ex2623 And you shall make two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear;  
Ex2624 they shall be separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first ring. Thus shall it be with both of them; they shall form the two corners.  
Ex2625 And there shall be eight frames, with their bases of silver, sixteen bases; two bases under one frame, and two bases under another frame.  
Ex2626 “You shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle,  
Ex2627 and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the side of the tabernacle at the rear westward.  
Ex2628 The middle bar, halfway up the frames, shall run from end to end.  
Ex2629 You shall overlay the frames with gold and shall make their rings of gold for holders for the bars, and you shall overlay the bars with gold.  
Ex2630 Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to the plan for it that you were shown on the mountain.  
Ex2631 “And you shall make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. It shall be made with cherubim skillfully worked into it.  
Ex2632 And you shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, with hooks of gold, on four bases of silver.  
Ex2633 And you shall hang the veil from the clasps, and bring the ark of the testimony in there within the veil. And the veil shall separate for you the Holy Place from the Most Holy.  
Ex2634 You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place.  
Ex2635 And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle opposite the table, and you shall put the table on the north side.  
Ex2636 “You shall make a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework.  
Ex2637 And you shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold. Their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five bases of bronze for them.  
Ex2701 “You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits broad. The altar shall be square, and its height shall be three cubits.  
Ex2702 And you shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.  
Ex2703 You shall make pots for it to receive its ashes, and shovels and basins and forks and fire pans. You shall make all its utensils of bronze.  
Ex2704 You shall also make for it a grating, a network of bronze, and on the net you shall make four bronze rings at its four corners.  
Ex2705 And you shall set it under the ledge of the altar so that the net extends halfway down the altar.  
Ex2706 And you shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.  
Ex2707 And the poles shall be put through the rings, so that the poles are on the two sides of the altar when it is carried.  
Ex2708 You shall make it hollow, with boards. As it has been shown you on the mountain, so shall it be made.  
Ex2709 “You shall make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side the court shall have hangings of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side.  
Ex2710 Its twenty pillars and their twenty bases shall be of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.  
Ex2711 And likewise for its length on the north side there shall be hangings a hundred cubits long, its pillars twenty and their bases twenty, of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.  
Ex2712 And for the breadth of the court on the west side there shall be hangings for fifty cubits, with ten pillars and ten bases.  
Ex2713 The breadth of the court on the front to the east shall be fifty cubits.  
Ex2714 The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and three bases.  
Ex2715 On the other side the hangings shall be fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and three bases.  
Ex2716 For the gate of the court there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework. It shall have four pillars and with them four bases.  
Ex2717 All the pillars around the court shall be filleted with silver. Their hooks shall be of silver, and their bases of bronze.  
Ex2718 The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, the breadth fifty, and the height five cubits, with hangings of fine twined linen and bases of bronze.  
Ex2719 All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, and all its pegs and all the pegs of the court, shall be of bronze.  
Ex2720 “You shall command the people of Israel that they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the light, that a lamp may regularly be set up to burn.  
Ex2721 In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it from evening to morning before the LORD. It shall be a statute forever to be observed throughout their generations by the people of Israel.  
Ex2801 “Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests—Aaron and Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.  
Ex2802 And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.  
Ex2803 You shall speak to all the skillful, whom I have filled with a spirit of skill, that they make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him for my priesthood.  
Ex2804 These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests.  
Ex2805 They shall receive gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen.  
Ex2806 “And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and of fine twined linen, skillfully worked.  
Ex2807 It shall have two shoulder pieces attached to its two edges, so that it may be joined together.  
Ex2808 And the skillfully woven band on it shall be made like it and be of one piece with it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen.  
Ex2809 You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel,  
Ex2810 six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, in the order of their birth.  
Ex2811 As a jeweler engraves signets, so shall you engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel. You shall enclose them in settings of gold filigree.  
Ex2812 And you shall set the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, as stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel. And Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD on his two shoulders for remembrance.  
Ex2813 You shall make settings of gold filigree,  
Ex2814 and two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords; and you shall attach the corded chains to the settings.  
Ex2815 “You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, in skilled work. In the style of the ephod you shall make it—of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen shall you make it.  
Ex2816 It shall be square and doubled, a span its length and a span its breadth.  
Ex2817 You shall set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row;  
Ex2818 and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;  
Ex2819 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;  
Ex2820 and the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They shall be set in gold filigree.  
Ex2821 There shall be twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel. They shall be like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.  
Ex2822 You shall make for the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold.  
Ex2823 And you shall make for the breastpiece two rings of gold, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece.  
Ex2824 And you shall put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece.  
Ex2825 The two ends of the two cords you shall attach to the two settings of filigree, and so attach it in front to the shoulder pieces of the ephod.  
Ex2826 You shall make two rings of gold, and put them at the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inside edge next to the ephod.  
Ex2827 And you shall make two rings of gold, and attach them in front to the lower part of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, at its seam above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.  
Ex2828 And they shall bind the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it may lie on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, so that the breastpiece shall not come loose from the ephod.  
Ex2829 So Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment on his heart, when he goes into the Holy Place, to bring them to regular remembrance before the LORD.  
Ex2830 And in the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron’s heart, when he goes in before the LORD. Thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the people of Israel on his heart before the LORD regularly.  
Ex2831 “You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.  
Ex2832 It shall have an opening for the head in the middle of it, with a woven binding around the opening, like the opening in a garment, so that it may not tear.  
Ex2833 On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, around its hem, with bells of gold between them,  
Ex2834 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.  
Ex2835 And it shall be on Aaron when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the Holy Place before the LORD, and when he comes out, so that he does not die.  
Ex2836 “You shall make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet, ‘Holy to the LORD.’  
Ex2837 And you shall fasten it on the turban by a cord of blue. It shall be on the front of the turban.  
Ex2838 It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear any guilt from the holy things that the people of Israel consecrate as their holy gifts. It shall regularly be on his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.  
Ex2839 “You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash embroidered with needlework.  
Ex2840 “For Aaron’s sons you shall make coats and sashes and caps. You shall make them for glory and beauty.  
Ex2841 And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.  
Ex2842 You shall make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked flesh. They shall reach from the hips to the thighs;  
Ex2843 and they shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they go into the tent of meeting or when they come near the altar to minister in the Holy Place, lest they bear guilt and die. This shall be a statute forever for him and for his offspring after him.  
Ex2901 “Now this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests. Take one bull of the herd and two rams without blemish,  
Ex2902 and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.  
Ex2903 You shall put them in one basket and bring them in the basket, and bring the bull and the two rams.  
Ex2904 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.  
Ex2905 Then you shall take the garments, and put on Aaron the coat and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastpiece, and gird him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod.  
Ex2906 And you shall set the turban on his head and put the holy crown on the turban.  
Ex2907 You shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him.  
Ex2908 Then you shall bring his sons and put coats on them,  
Ex2909 and you shall gird Aaron and his sons with sashes and bind caps on them. And the priesthood shall be theirs by a statute forever. Thus you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.  
Ex2910 “Then you shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting. Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.  
Ex2911 Then you shall kill the bull before the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting,  
Ex2912 and shall take part of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and the rest of the blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar.  
Ex2913 And you shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the long lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.  
Ex2914 But the flesh of the bull and its skin and its dung you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.  
Ex2915 “Then you shall take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram,  
Ex2916 and you shall kill the ram and shall take its blood and throw it against the sides of the altar.  
Ex2917 Then you shall cut the ram into pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head,  
Ex2918 and burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD. It is a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.  
Ex2919 “You shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram,  
Ex2920 and you shall kill the ram and take part of its blood and put it on the tip of the right ear of Aaron and on the tips of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the great toes of their right feet, and throw the rest of the blood against the sides of the altar.  
Ex2921 Then you shall take part of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and his sons’ garments with him. He and his garments shall be holy, and his sons and his sons’ garments with him.  
Ex2922 “You shall also take the fat from the ram and the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails, and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh (for it is a ram of ordination),  
Ex2923 and one loaf of bread and one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.  
Ex2924 You shall put all these on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.  
Ex2925 Then you shall take them from their hands and burn them on the altar on top of the burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma before the LORD. It is a food offering to the LORD.  
Ex2926 “You shall take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD, and it shall be your portion.  
Ex2927 And you shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering that is waved and the thigh of the priests’ portion that is contributed from the ram of ordination, from what was Aaron’s and his sons’.  
Ex2928 It shall be for Aaron and his sons as a perpetual due from the people of Israel, for it is a contribution. It shall be a contribution from the people of Israel from their peace offerings, their contribution to the LORD.  
Ex2929 “The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him; they shall be anointed in them and ordained in them.  
Ex2930 The son who succeeds him as priest, who comes into the tent of meeting to minister in the Holy Place, shall wear them seven days.  
Ex2931 “You shall take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.  
Ex2932 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram and the bread that is in the basket in the entrance of the tent of meeting.  
Ex2933 They shall eat those things with which atonement was made at their ordination and consecration, but an outsider shall not eat of them, because they are holy.  
Ex2934 And if any of the flesh for the ordination or of the bread remain until the morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire. It shall not be eaten, because it is holy.  
Ex2935 “Thus you shall do to Aaron and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. Through seven days shall you ordain them,  
Ex2936 and every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall purify the altar, when you make atonement for it, and shall anoint it to consecrate it.  
Ex2937 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it, and the altar shall be most holy. Whatever touches the altar shall become holy.  
Ex2938 “Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day regularly.  
Ex2939 One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight.  
Ex2940 And with the first lamb a tenth measure of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering.  
Ex2941 The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and shall offer with it a grain offering and its drink offering, as in the morning, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.  
Ex2942 It shall be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you, to speak to you there.  
Ex2943 There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory.  
Ex2944 I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar. Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate to serve me as priests.  
Ex2945 I will dwell among the people of Israel and will be their God.  
Ex2946 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.  
Ex3001 “You shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.  
Ex3002 A cubit shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth. It shall be square, and two cubits shall be its height. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.  
Ex3003 You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it.  
Ex3004 And you shall make two golden rings for it. Under its molding on two opposite sides of it you shall make them, and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it.  
Ex3005 You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.  
Ex3006 And you shall put it in front of the veil that is above the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is above the testimony, where I will meet with you.  
Ex3007 And Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it. Every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall burn it,  
Ex3008 and when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he shall burn it, a regular incense offering before the LORD throughout your generations.  
Ex3009 You shall not offer unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering, and you shall not pour a drink offering on it.  
Ex3010 Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once a year. With the blood of the sin offering of atonement he shall make atonement for it once in the year throughout your generations. It is most holy to the LORD.”  
Ex3011 The LORD said to Moses,  
Ex3012 “When you take the census of the people of Israel, then each shall give a ransom for his life to the LORD when you number them, that there be no plague among them when you number them.  
Ex3013 Each one who is numbered in the census shall give this: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as an offering to the LORD.  
Ex3014 Everyone who is numbered in the census, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the LORD’s offering.  
Ex3015 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel, when you give the LORD’s offering to make atonement for your lives.  
Ex3016 You shall take the atonement money from the people of Israel and shall give it for the service of the tent of meeting, that it may bring the people of Israel to remembrance before the LORD, so as to make atonement for your lives.”  
Ex3017 The LORD said to Moses,  
Ex3018 “You shall also make a basin of bronze, with its stand of bronze, for washing. You shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it,  
Ex3019 with which Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet.  
Ex3020 When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to burn a food offering to the LORD, they shall wash with water, so that they may not die.  
Ex3021 They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they may not die. It shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his offspring throughout their generations.”  
Ex3022 The LORD said to Moses,  
Ex3023 “Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, 250, and 250 of aromatic cane,  
Ex3024 and 500 of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil.  
Ex3025 And you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.  
Ex3026 With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,  
Ex3027 and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,  
Ex3028 and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the basin and its stand.  
Ex3029 You shall consecrate them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them will become holy.  
Ex3030 You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.  
Ex3031 And you shall say to the people of Israel, ‘This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations.  
Ex3032 It shall not be poured on the body of an ordinary person, and you shall make no other like it in composition. It is holy, and it shall be holy to you.  
Ex3033 Whoever compounds any like it or whoever puts any of it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”  
Ex3034 The LORD said to Moses, “Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part),  
Ex3035 and make an incense blended as by the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy.  
Ex3036 You shall beat some of it very small, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I shall meet with you. It shall be most holy for you.  
Ex3037 And the incense that you shall make according to its composition, you shall not make for yourselves. It shall be for you holy to the LORD.  
Ex3038 Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from his people.”  
Ex3101 The LORD said to Moses,  
Ex3102 “See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,  
Ex3103 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship,  
Ex3104 to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze,  
Ex3105 in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft.  
Ex3106 And behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And I have given to all able men ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you:  
Ex3107 the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is on it, and all the furnishings of the tent,  
Ex3108 the table and its utensils, and the pure lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense,  
Ex3109 and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin and its stand,  
Ex3110 and the finely worked garments, the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests,  
Ex3111 and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the Holy Place. According to all that I have commanded you, they shall do.”  
Ex3112 And the LORD said to Moses,  
Ex3113 “You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, ‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the LORD, sanctify you.  
Ex3114 You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.  
Ex3115 Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death.  
Ex3116 Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever.  
Ex3117 It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’”  
Ex3118 And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.  
Ex3201 When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, “Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”  
Ex3202 So Aaron said to them, “Take off the rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”  
Ex3203 So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.  
Ex3204 And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a golden calf. And they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”  
Ex3205 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.”  
Ex3206 And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.  
Ex3207 And the LORD said to Moses, “Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.  
Ex3208 They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”  
Ex3209 And the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.  
Ex3210 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them, in order that I may make a great nation of you.”  
Ex3211 But Moses implored the LORD his God and said, “O LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?  
Ex3212 Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people.  
Ex3213 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”  
Ex3214 And the LORD relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.  
Ex3215 Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both sides; on the front and on the back they were written.  
Ex3216 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.  
Ex3217 When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a noise of war in the camp.”  
Ex3218 But he said, “It is not the sound of shouting for victory, or the sound of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing that I hear.”  
Ex3219 And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses’ anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.  
Ex3220 He took the calf that they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the people of Israel drink it.  
Ex3221 And Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you have brought such a great sin upon them?”  
Ex3222 And Aaron said, “Let not the anger of my lord burn hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.  
Ex3223 For they said to me, ‘Make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’  
Ex3224 So I said to them, ‘Let any who have gold take it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”  
Ex3225 And when Moses saw that the people had broken loose (for Aaron had let them break loose, to the derision of their enemies),  
Ex3226 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Who is on the LORD’s side? Come to me.” And all the sons of Levi gathered around him.  
Ex3227 And he said to them, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel, ‘Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.’”  
Ex3228 And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And that day about three thousand men of the people fell.  
Ex3229 And Moses said, “Today you have been ordained for the service of the LORD, each one at the cost of his son and of his brother, so that he might bestow a blessing upon you this day.”  
Ex3230 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”  
Ex3231 So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Alas, this people has sinned a great sin. They have made for themselves gods of gold.  
Ex3232 But now, if you will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.”  
Ex3233 But the LORD said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book.  
Ex3234 But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.”  
Ex3235 Then the LORD sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf, the one that Aaron made.  
Ex3301 The LORD said to Moses, “Depart; go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give it.’  
Ex3302 I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.  
Ex3303 Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”  
Ex3304 When the people heard this disastrous word, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments.  
Ex3305 For the LORD had said to Moses, “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.’”  
Ex3306 Therefore the people of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.  
Ex3307 Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it outside the camp, far off from the camp, and he called it the tent of meeting. And everyone who sought the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp.  
Ex3308 Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise up, and each would stand at his tent door, and watch Moses until he had gone into the tent.  
Ex3309 When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the LORD would speak with Moses.  
Ex3310 And when all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, all the people would rise up and worship, each at his tent door.  
Ex3311 Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.  
Ex3312 Moses said to the LORD, “See, you say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’  
Ex3313 Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people.”  
Ex3314 And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”  
Ex3315 And he said to him, “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.  
Ex3316 For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?”  
Ex3317 And the LORD said to Moses, “This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”  
Ex3318 Moses said, “Please show me your glory.”  
Ex3319 And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The LORD.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.  
Ex3320 But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.”  
Ex3321 And the LORD said, “Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock,  
Ex3322 and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by.  
Ex3323 Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen.”  
Ex3401 The LORD said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.  
Ex3402 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.  
Ex3403 No one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.”  
Ex3404 So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone.  
Ex3405 The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.  
Ex3406 The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,  
Ex3407 keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”  
Ex3408 And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped.  
Ex3409 And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”  
Ex3410 And he said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.  
Ex3411 “Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.  
Ex3412 Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst.  
Ex3413 You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim  
Ex3414 (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),  
Ex3415 lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice,  
Ex3416 and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.  
Ex3417 “You shall not make for yourself any gods of cast metal.  
Ex3418 “You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib, for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.  
Ex3419 All that open the womb are mine, all your male livestock, the firstborn of cow and sheep.  
Ex3420 The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty-handed.  
Ex3421 “Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.  
Ex3422 You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end.  
Ex3423 Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.  
Ex3424 For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.  
Ex3425 “You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with anything leavened, or let the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover remain until the morning.  
Ex3426 The best of the firstfruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”  
Ex3427 And the LORD said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”  
Ex3428 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.  
Ex3429 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.  
Ex3430 Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.  
Ex3431 But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them.  
Ex3432 Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he commanded them all that the LORD had spoken with him in Mount Sinai.  
Ex3433 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.  
Ex3434 Whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded,  
Ex3435 the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face was shining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him.  
Ex3501 Moses assembled all the congregation of the people of Israel and said to them, “These are the things that the LORD has commanded you to do.  
Ex3502 Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.  
Ex3503 You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day.”  
Ex3504 Moses said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “This is the thing that the LORD has commanded.  
Ex3505 Take from among you a contribution to the LORD. Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the LORD’s contribution: gold, silver, and bronze;  
Ex3506 blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; goats’ hair,  
Ex3507 tanned rams’ skins, and goatskins; acacia wood,  
Ex3508 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,  
Ex3509 and onyx stones and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.  
Ex3510 “Let every skillful craftsman among you come and make all that the LORD has commanded:  
Ex3511 the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks and its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;  
Ex3512 the ark with its poles, the mercy seat, and the veil of the screen;  
Ex3513 the table with its poles and all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence;  
Ex3514 the lampstand also for the light, with its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light;  
Ex3515 and the altar of incense, with its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;  
Ex3516 the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils, the basin and its stand;  
Ex3517 the hangings of the court, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court;  
Ex3518 the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court, and their cords;  
Ex3519 the finely worked garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests.”  
Ex3520 Then all the congregation of the people of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.  
Ex3521 And they came, everyone whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose spirit moved him, and brought the LORD’s contribution to be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments.  
Ex3522 So they came, both men and women. All who were of a willing heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all sorts of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to the LORD.  
Ex3523 And every one who possessed blue or purple or scarlet yarns or fine linen or goats’ hair or tanned rams’ skins or goatskins brought them.  
Ex3524 Everyone who could make a contribution of silver or bronze brought it as the LORD’s contribution. And every one who possessed acacia wood of any use in the work brought it.  
Ex3525 And every skillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.  
Ex3526 All the women whose hearts stirred them to use their skill spun the goats’ hair.  
Ex3527 And the leaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastpiece,  
Ex3528 and spices and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.  
Ex3529 All the men and women, the people of Israel, whose heart moved them to bring anything for the work that the LORD had commanded by Moses to be done brought it as a freewill offering to the LORD.  
Ex3530 Then Moses said to the people of Israel, “See, the LORD has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;  
Ex3531 and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship,  
Ex3532 to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze,  
Ex3533 in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft.  
Ex3534 And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan.  
Ex3535 He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver—by any sort of workman or skilled designer.  
Ex3601 “Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the LORD has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the LORD has commanded.”  
Ex3602 And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the LORD had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work.  
Ex3603 And they received from Moses all the contribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning,  
Ex3604 so that all the craftsmen who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing,  
Ex3605 and said to Moses, “The people bring much more than enough for doing the work that the LORD has commanded us to do.”  
Ex3606 So Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed throughout the camp, “Let no man or woman do anything more for the contribution for the sanctuary.” So the people were restrained from bringing,  
Ex3607 for the material they had was sufficient to do all the work, and more.  
Ex3608 And all the craftsmen among the workmen made the tabernacle with ten curtains. They were made of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns, with cherubim skillfully worked.  
Ex3609 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. All the curtains were the same size.  
Ex3610 He coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another.  
Ex3611 He made loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain of the first set. Likewise he made them on the edge of the outermost curtain of the second set.  
Ex3612 He made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set. The loops were opposite one another.  
Ex3613 And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to the other with clasps. So the tabernacle was a single whole.  
Ex3614 He also made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle. He made eleven curtains.  
Ex3615 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains were the same size.  
Ex3616 He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.  
Ex3617 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain of the one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the other connecting curtain.  
Ex3618 And he made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together that it might be a single whole.  
Ex3619 And he made for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and goatskins.  
Ex3620 Then he made the upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.  
Ex3621 Ten cubits was the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame.  
Ex3622 Each frame had two tenons for fitting together. He did this for all the frames of the tabernacle.  
Ex3623 The frames for the tabernacle he made thus: twenty frames for the south side.  
Ex3624 And he made forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under the next frame for its two tenons.  
Ex3625 For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty frames  
Ex3626 and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame and two bases under the next frame.  
Ex3627 For the rear of the tabernacle westward he made six frames.  
Ex3628 He made two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear.  
Ex3629 And they were separate beneath but joined at the top, at the first ring. He made two of them this way for the two corners.  
Ex3630 There were eight frames with their bases of silver: sixteen bases, under every frame two bases.  
Ex3631 He made bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle,  
Ex3632 and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the tabernacle at the rear westward.  
Ex3633 And he made the middle bar to run from end to end halfway up the frames.  
Ex3634 And he overlaid the frames with gold, and made their rings of gold for holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.  
Ex3635 He made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen; with cherubim skillfully worked into it he made it.  
Ex3636 And for it he made four pillars of acacia and overlaid them with gold. Their hooks were of gold, and he cast for them four bases of silver.  
Ex3637 He also made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework,  
Ex3638 and its five pillars with their hooks. He overlaid their capitals, and their fillets were of gold, but their five bases were of bronze.  
Ex3701 Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Two cubits and a half was its length, a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.  
Ex3702 And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold around it.  
Ex3703 And he cast for it four rings of gold for its four feet, two rings on its one side and two rings on its other side.  
Ex3704 And he made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold  
Ex3705 and put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark.  
Ex3706 And he made a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half was its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.  
Ex3707 And he made two cherubim of gold. He made them of hammered work on the two ends of the mercy seat,  
Ex3708 one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. Of one piece with the mercy seat he made the cherubim on its two ends.  
Ex3709 The cherubim spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat were the faces of the cherubim.  
Ex3710 He also made the table of acacia wood. Two cubits was its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.  
Ex3711 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made a molding of gold around it.  
Ex3712 And he made a rim around it a handbreadth wide, and made a molding of gold around the rim.  
Ex3713 He cast for it four rings of gold and fastened the rings to the four corners at its four legs.  
Ex3714 Close to the frame were the rings, as holders for the poles to carry the table.  
Ex3715 He made the poles of acacia wood to carry the table, and overlaid them with gold.  
Ex3716 And he made the vessels of pure gold that were to be on the table, its plates and dishes for incense, and its bowls and flagons with which to pour drink offerings.  
Ex3717 He also made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of hammered work. Its base, its stem, its cups, its calyxes, and its flowers were of one piece with it.  
Ex3718 And there were six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it;  
Ex3719 three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with calyx and flower, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.  
Ex3720 And on the lampstand itself were four cups made like almond blossoms, with their calyxes and flowers,  
Ex3721 and a calyx of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out of it.  
Ex3722 Their calyxes and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole of it was a single piece of hammered work of pure gold.  
Ex3723 And he made its seven lamps and its tongs and its trays of pure gold.  
Ex3724 He made it and all its utensils out of a talent of pure gold.  
Ex3725 He made the altar of incense of acacia wood. Its length was a cubit, and its breadth was a cubit. It was square, and two cubits was its height. Its horns were of one piece with it.  
Ex3726 He overlaid it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And he made a molding of gold around it,  
Ex3727 and made two rings of gold on it under its molding, on two opposite sides of it, as holders for the poles with which to carry it.  
Ex3728 And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.  
Ex3729 He made the holy anointing oil also, and the pure fragrant incense, blended as by the perfumer.  
Ex3801 He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. Five cubits was its length, and five cubits its breadth. It was square, and three cubits was its height.  
Ex3802 He made horns for it on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.  
Ex3803 And he made all the utensils of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its utensils of bronze.  
Ex3804 And he made for the altar a grating, a network of bronze, under its ledge, extending halfway down.  
Ex3805 He cast four rings on the four corners of the bronze grating as holders for the poles.  
Ex3806 He made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with bronze.  
Ex3807 And he put the poles through the rings on the sides of the altar to carry it with them. He made it hollow, with boards.  
Ex3808 He made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze, from the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered in the entrance of the tent of meeting.  
Ex3809 And he made the court. For the south side the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits;  
Ex3810 their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.  
Ex3811 And for the north side there were hangings of a hundred cubits; their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.  
Ex3812 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their ten pillars, and their ten bases; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.  
Ex3813 And for the front to the east, fifty cubits.  
Ex3814 The hangings for one side of the gate were fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and three bases.  
Ex3815 And so for the other side. On both sides of the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits, with their three pillars and their three bases.  
Ex3816 All the hangings around the court were of fine twined linen.  
Ex3817 And the bases for the pillars were of bronze, but the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver. The overlaying of their capitals was also of silver, and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.  
Ex3818 And the screen for the gate of the court was embroidered with needlework in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. It was twenty cubits long and five cubits high in its breadth, corresponding to the hangings of the court.  
Ex3819 And their pillars were four in number. Their four bases were of bronze, their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their fillets of silver.  
Ex3820 And all the pegs for the tabernacle and for the court all around were of bronze.  
Ex3821 These are the records of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were recorded at the commandment of Moses, the responsibility of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.  
Ex3822 Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses;  
Ex3823 and with him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and designer and embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.  
Ex3824 All the gold that was used for the work, in all the construction of the sanctuary, the gold from the offering, was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary.  
Ex3825 The silver from those of the congregation who were recorded was a hundred talents and 1,775 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary:  
Ex3826 a beka a head (that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone who was listed in the records, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.  
Ex3827 The hundred talents of silver were for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent a base.  
Ex3828 And of the 1,775 shekels he made hooks for the pillars and overlaid their capitals and made fillets for them.  
Ex3829 The bronze that was offered was seventy talents and 2,400 shekels;  
Ex3830 with it he made the bases for the entrance of the tent of meeting, the bronze altar and the bronze grating for it and all the utensils of the altar,  
Ex3831 the bases around the court, and the bases of the gate of the court, all the pegs of the tabernacle, and all the pegs around the court.  
Ex3901 From the blue and purple and scarlet yarns they made finely woven garments, for ministering in the Holy Place. They made the holy garments for Aaron, as the LORD had commanded Moses.  
Ex3902 He made the ephod of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen.  
Ex3903 And they hammered out gold leaf, and he cut it into threads to work into the blue and purple and the scarlet yarns, and into the fine twined linen, in skilled design.  
Ex3904 They made for the ephod attaching shoulder pieces, joined to it at its two edges.  
Ex3905 And the skillfully woven band on it was of one piece with it and made like it, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen, as the LORD had commanded Moses.  
Ex3906 They made the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold filigree, and engraved like the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the sons of Israel.  
Ex3907 And he set them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod to be stones of remembrance for the sons of Israel, as the LORD had commanded Moses.  
Ex3908 He made the breastpiece, in skilled work, in the style of the ephod, of gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen.  
Ex3909 It was square. They made the breastpiece doubled, a span its length and a span its breadth when doubled.  
Ex3910 And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row;  
Ex3911 and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;  
Ex3912 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;  
Ex3913 and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in settings of gold filigree.  
Ex3914 There were twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel. They were like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.  
Ex3915 And they made on the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold.  
Ex3916 And they made two settings of gold filigree and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breastpiece.  
Ex3917 And they put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece.  
Ex3918 They attached the two ends of the two cords to the two settings of filigree. Thus they attached it in front to the shoulder pieces of the ephod.  
Ex3919 Then they made two rings of gold, and put them at the two ends of the breastpiece, on its inside edge next to the ephod.  
Ex3920 And they made two rings of gold, and attached them in front to the lower part of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, at its seam above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.  
Ex3921 And they bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, so that it should lie on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece should not come loose from the ephod, as the LORD had commanded Moses.  
Ex3922 He also made the robe of the ephod woven all of blue,  
Ex3923 and the opening of the robe in it was like the opening in a garment, with a binding around the opening, so that it might not tear.  
Ex3924 On the hem of the robe they made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.  
Ex3925 They also made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates all around the hem of the robe, between the pomegranates—  
Ex3926 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate around the hem of the robe for ministering, as the LORD had commanded Moses.  
Ex3927 They also made the coats, woven of fine linen, for Aaron and his sons,  
Ex3928 and the turban of fine linen, and the caps of fine linen, and the linen undergarments of fine twined linen,  
Ex3929 and the sash of fine twined linen and of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, embroidered with needlework, as the LORD had commanded Moses.  
Ex3930 They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it an inscription, like the engraving of a signet, “Holy to the LORD.”  
Ex3931 And they tied to it a cord of blue to fasten it on the turban above, as the LORD had commanded Moses.  
Ex3932 Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was finished, and the people of Israel did according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses; so they did.  
Ex3933 Then they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its utensils, its hooks, its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;  
Ex3934 the covering of tanned rams’ skins and goatskins, and the veil of the screen;  
Ex3935 the ark of the testimony with its poles and the mercy seat;  
Ex3936 the table with all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence;  
Ex3937 the lampstand of pure gold and its lamps with the lamps set and all its utensils, and the oil for the light;  
Ex3938 the golden altar, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the entrance of the tent;  
Ex3939 the bronze altar, and its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin and its stand;  
Ex3940 the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, and its pegs; and all the utensils for the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;  
Ex3941 the finely worked garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons for their service as priests.  
Ex3942 According to all that the LORD had commanded Moses, so the people of Israel had done all the work.  
Ex3943 And Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it; as the LORD had commanded, so had they done it. Then Moses blessed them.  
Ex4001 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Ex4002 “On the first day of the first month you shall erect the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.  
Ex4003 And you shall put in it the ark of the testimony, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.  
Ex4004 And you shall bring in the table and arrange it, and you shall bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.  
Ex4005 And you shall put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the screen for the door of the tabernacle.  
Ex4006 You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting,  
Ex4007 and place the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.  
Ex4008 And you shall set up the court all around, and hang up the screen for the gate of the court.  
Ex4009 “Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy.  
Ex4010 You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy.  
Ex4011 You shall also anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it.  
Ex4012 Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall wash them with water  
Ex4013 and put on Aaron the holy garments. And you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest.  
Ex4014 You shall bring his sons also and put coats on them,  
Ex4015 and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations.”  
Ex4016 This Moses did; according to all that the LORD commanded him, so he did.  
Ex4017 In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.  
Ex4018 Moses erected the tabernacle. He laid its bases, and set up its frames, and put in its poles, and raised up its pillars.  
Ex4019 And he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent over it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.  
Ex4020 He took the testimony and put it into the ark, and put the poles on the ark and set the mercy seat above on the ark.  
Ex4021 And he brought the ark into the tabernacle and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony, as the LORD had commanded Moses.  
Ex4022 He put the table in the tent of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil,  
Ex4023 and arranged the bread on it before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.  
Ex4024 He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle,  
Ex4025 and set up the lamps before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.  
Ex4026 He put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil,  
Ex4027 and burned fragrant incense on it, as the LORD had commanded Moses.  
Ex4028 He put in place the screen for the door of the tabernacle.  
Ex4029 And he set the altar of burnt offering at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as the LORD had commanded Moses.  
Ex4030 He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it for washing,  
Ex4031 with which Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet.  
Ex4032 When they went into the tent of meeting, and when they approached the altar, they washed, as the LORD commanded Moses.  
Ex4033 And he erected the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.  
Ex4034 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.  
Ex4035 And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.  
Ex4036 Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out.  
Ex4037 But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up.  
Ex4038 For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys.  
Lv0101 The LORD called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying,  
Lv0102 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any one of you brings an offering to the LORD, you shall bring your offering of livestock from the herd or from the flock.  
Lv0103 “If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before the LORD.  
Lv0104 He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.  
Lv0105 Then he shall kill the bull before the LORD, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall bring the blood and throw the blood against the sides of the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.  
Lv0106 Then he shall flay the burnt offering and cut it into pieces,  
Lv0107 and the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.  
Lv0108 And Aaron’s sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, the head, and the fat, on the wood that is on the fire on the altar;  
Lv0109 but its entrails and its legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall burn all of it on the altar, as a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.  
Lv0110 “If his gift for a burnt offering is from the flock, from the sheep or goats, he shall bring a male without blemish,  
Lv0111 and he shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the LORD, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar.  
Lv0112 And he shall cut it into pieces, with its head and its fat, and the priest shall arrange them on the wood that is on the fire on the altar,  
Lv0113 but the entrails and the legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall offer all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.  
Lv0114 “If his offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or pigeons.  
Lv0115 And the priest shall bring it to the altar and wring off its head and burn it on the altar. Its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar.  
Lv0116 He shall remove its crop with its contents and cast it beside the altar on the east side, in the place for ashes.  
Lv0117 He shall tear it open by its wings, but shall not sever it completely. And the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire. It is a burnt offering, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.  
Lv0201 “When anyone brings a grain offering as an offering to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it  
Lv0202 and bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests. And he shall take from it a handful of the fine flour and oil, with all of its frankincense, and the priest shall burn this as its memorial portion on the altar, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.  
Lv0203 But the rest of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the LORD’s food offerings.  
Lv0204 “When you bring a grain offering baked in the oven as an offering, it shall be unleavened loaves of fine flour mixed with oil or unleavened wafers smeared with oil.  
Lv0205 And if your offering is a grain offering baked on a griddle, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mixed with oil.  
Lv0206 You shall break it in pieces and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.  
Lv0207 And if your offering is a grain offering cooked in a pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.  
Lv0208 And you shall bring the grain offering that is made of these things to the LORD, and when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar.  
Lv0209 And the priest shall take from the grain offering its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.  
Lv0210 But the rest of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the LORD’s food offerings.  
Lv0211 “No grain offering that you bring to the LORD shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey as a food offering to the LORD.  
Lv0212 As an offering of firstfruits you may bring them to the LORD, but they shall not be offered on the altar for a pleasing aroma.  
Lv0213 You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.  
Lv0214 “If you offer a grain offering of firstfruits to the LORD, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits fresh ears, roasted with fire, crushed new grain.  
Lv0215 And you shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it; it is a grain offering.  
Lv0216 And the priest shall burn as its memorial portion some of the crushed grain and some of the oil with all of its frankincense; it is a food offering to the LORD.  
Lv0301 “If his offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers an animal from the herd, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.  
Lv0302 And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall throw the blood against the sides of the altar.  
Lv0303 And from the sacrifice of the peace offering, as a food offering to the LORD, he shall offer the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,  
Lv0304 and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys.  
Lv0305 Then Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar on top of the burnt offering, which is on the wood on the fire; it is a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.  
Lv0306 “If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD is an animal from the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.  
Lv0307 If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before the LORD,  
Lv0308 lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it in front of the tent of meeting; and Aaron’s sons shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar.  
Lv0309 Then from the sacrifice of the peace offering he shall offer as a food offering to the LORD its fat; he shall remove the whole fat tail, cut off close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails  
Lv0310 and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys.  
Lv0311 And the priest shall burn it on the altar as a food offering to the LORD.  
Lv0312 “If his offering is a goat, then he shall offer it before the LORD  
Lv0313 and lay his hand on its head and kill it in front of the tent of meeting, and the sons of Aaron shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar.  
Lv0314 Then he shall offer from it, as his offering for a food offering to the LORD, the fat covering the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails  
Lv0315 and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys.  
Lv0316 And the priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering with a pleasing aroma. All fat is the LORD’s.  
Lv0317 It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”  
Lv0401 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv0402 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If anyone sins unintentionally in any of the LORD’s commandments about things not to be done, and does any one of them,  
Lv0403 if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull from the herd without blemish to the LORD for a sin offering.  
Lv0404 He shall bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting before the LORD and lay his hand on the head of the bull and kill the bull before the LORD.  
Lv0405 And the anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull and bring it into the tent of meeting,  
Lv0406 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle part of the blood seven times before the LORD in front of the veil of the sanctuary.  
Lv0407 And the priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before the LORD that is in the tent of meeting, and all the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.  
Lv0408 And all the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall remove from it, the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails  
Lv0409 and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys  
Lv0410 (just as these are taken from the ox of the sacrifice of the peace offerings); and the priest shall burn them on the altar of burnt offering.  
Lv0411 But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung—  
Lv0412 all the rest of the bull—he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, to the ash heap, and shall burn it up on a fire of wood. On the ash heap it shall be burned up.  
Lv0413 “If the whole congregation of Israel sins unintentionally and the thing is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of the things that by the LORD’s commandments ought not to be done, and they realize their guilt,  
Lv0414 when the sin which they have committed becomes known, the assembly shall offer a bull from the herd for a sin offering and bring it in front of the tent of meeting.  
Lv0415 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the LORD, and the bull shall be killed before the LORD.  
Lv0416 Then the anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull into the tent of meeting,  
Lv0417 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD in front of the veil.  
Lv0418 And he shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is in the tent of meeting before the LORD, and the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.  
Lv0419 And all its fat he shall take from it and burn on the altar.  
Lv0420 Thus shall he do with the bull. As he did with the bull of the sin offering, so shall he do with this. And the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be forgiven.  
Lv0421 And he shall carry the bull outside the camp and burn it up as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.  
Lv0422 “When a leader sins, doing unintentionally any one of all the things that by the commandments of the LORD his God ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt,  
Lv0423 or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a goat, a male without blemish,  
Lv0424 and shall lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD; it is a sin offering.  
Lv0425 Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out the rest of its blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering.  
Lv0426 And all its fat he shall burn on the altar, like the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. So the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin, and he shall be forgiven.  
Lv0427 “If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally in doing any one of the things that by the LORD’s commandments ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt,  
Lv0428 or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed.  
Lv0429 And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.  
Lv0430 And the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.  
Lv0431 And all its fat he shall remove, as the fat is removed from the peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar for a pleasing aroma to the LORD. And the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.  
Lv0432 “If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without blemish  
Lv0433 and lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.  
Lv0434 Then the priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering and pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.  
Lv0435 And all its fat he shall remove as the fat of the lamb is removed from the sacrifice of peace offerings, and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on top of the LORD’s food offerings. And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.  
Lv0501 “If anyone sins in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, and though he is a witness, whether he has seen or come to know the matter, yet does not speak, he shall bear his iniquity;  
Lv0502 or if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean wild animal or a carcass of unclean livestock or a carcass of unclean swarming things, and it is hidden from him and he has become unclean, and he realizes his guilt;  
Lv0503 or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort the uncleanness may be with which one becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and realizes his guilt;  
Lv0504 or if anyone utters with his lips a rash oath to do evil or to do good, any sort of rash oath that people swear, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it, and he realizes his guilt in any of these;  
Lv0505 when he realizes his guilt in any of these and confesses the sin he has committed,  
Lv0506 he shall bring to the LORD as his compensation for the sin that he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin.  
Lv0507 “But if he cannot afford a lamb, then he shall bring to the LORD as his compensation for the sin that he has committed two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering.  
Lv0508 He shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer first the one for the sin offering. He shall wring its head from its neck but shall not sever it completely,  
Lv0509 and he shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering.  
Lv0510 Then he shall offer the second for a burnt offering according to the rule. And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven.  
Lv0511 “But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two pigeons, then he shall bring as his offering for the sin that he has committed a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it and shall put no frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.  
Lv0512 And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take a handful of it as its memorial portion and burn this on the altar, on the LORD’s food offerings; it is a sin offering.  
Lv0513 Thus the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed in any one of these things, and he shall be forgiven. And the remainder shall be for the priest, as in the grain offering.”  
Lv0514 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv0515 “If anyone commits a breach of faith and sins unintentionally in any of the holy things of the LORD, he shall bring to the LORD as his compensation, a ram without blemish out of the flock, valued in silver shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, for a guilt offering.  
Lv0516 He shall also make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing and shall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest. And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he shall be forgiven.  
Lv0517 “If anyone sins, doing any of the things that by the LORD’s commandments ought not to be done, though he did not know it, then realizes his guilt, he shall bear his iniquity.  
Lv0518 He shall bring to the priest a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for him for the mistake that he made unintentionally, and he shall be forgiven.  
Lv0519 It is a guilt offering; he has indeed incurred guilt before the LORD.”  
Lv0601 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv0602 “If anyone sins and commits a breach of faith against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in a matter of deposit or security, or through robbery, or if he has oppressed his neighbor  
Lv0603 or has found something lost and lied about it, swearing falsely—in any of all the things that people do and sin thereby—  
Lv0604 if he has sinned and has realized his guilt and will restore what he took by robbery or what he got by oppression or the deposit that was committed to him or the lost thing that he found  
Lv0605 or anything about which he has sworn falsely, he shall restore it in full and shall add a fifth to it, and give it to him to whom it belongs on the day he realizes his guilt.  
Lv0606 And he shall bring to the priest as his compensation to the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering.  
Lv0607 And the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD, and he shall be forgiven for any of the things that one may do and thereby become guilty.”  
Lv0608 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv0609 “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering. The burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it.  
Lv0610 And the priest shall put on his linen garment and put his linen undergarment on his body, and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering on the altar and put them beside the altar.  
Lv0611 Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.  
Lv0612 The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not go out. The priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and he shall arrange the burnt offering on it and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings.  
Lv0613 Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out.  
Lv0614 “And this is the law of the grain offering. The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the LORD in front of the altar.  
Lv0615 And one shall take from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering and its oil and all the frankincense that is on the grain offering and burn this as its memorial portion on the altar, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.  
Lv0616 And the rest of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten unleavened in a holy place. In the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it.  
Lv0617 It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my food offerings. It is a thing most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.  
Lv0618 Every male among the children of Aaron may eat of it, as decreed forever throughout your generations, from the LORD’s food offerings. Whatever touches them shall become holy.”  
Lv0619 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv0620 “This is the offering that Aaron and his sons shall offer to the LORD on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.  
Lv0621 It shall be made with oil on a griddle. You shall bring it well mixed, in baked pieces like a grain offering, and offer it for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.  
Lv0622 The priest from among Aaron’s sons, who is anointed to succeed him, shall offer it to the LORD as decreed forever. The whole of it shall be burned.  
Lv0623 Every grain offering of a priest shall be wholly burned. It shall not be eaten.”  
Lv0624 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv0625 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering. In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the LORD; it is most holy.  
Lv0626 The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. In a holy place it shall be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.  
Lv0627 Whatever touches its flesh shall be holy, and when any of its blood is splashed on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was splashed in a holy place.  
Lv0628 And the earthenware vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken. But if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, that shall be scoured and rinsed in water.  
Lv0629 Every male among the priests may eat of it; it is most holy.  
Lv0630 But no sin offering shall be eaten from which any blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it shall be burned up with fire.  
Lv0701 “This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy.  
Lv0702 In the place where they kill the burnt offering they shall kill the guilt offering, and its blood shall be thrown against the sides of the altar.  
Lv0703 And all its fat shall be offered, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails,  
Lv0704 the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys.  
Lv0705 The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering to the LORD; it is a guilt offering.  
Lv0706 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It shall be eaten in a holy place. It is most holy.  
Lv0707 The guilt offering is just like the sin offering; there is one law for them. The priest who makes atonement with it shall have it.  
Lv0708 And the priest who offers any man’s burnt offering shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering that he has offered.  
Lv0709 And every grain offering baked in the oven and all that is prepared on a pan or a griddle shall belong to the priest who offers it.  
Lv0710 And every grain offering, mixed with oil or dry, shall be shared equally among all the sons of Aaron.  
Lv0711 “And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings that one may offer to the LORD.  
Lv0712 If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the thanksgiving sacrifice unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and loaves of fine flour well mixed with oil.  
Lv0713 With the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving he shall bring his offering with loaves of leavened bread.  
Lv0714 And from it he shall offer one loaf from each offering, as a gift to the LORD. It shall belong to the priest who throws the blood of the peace offerings.  
Lv0715 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering. He shall not leave any of it until the morning.  
Lv0716 But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow offering or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next day what remains of it shall be eaten.  
Lv0717 But what remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned up with fire.  
Lv0718 If any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offering is eaten on the third day, he who offers it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be credited to him. It is tainted, and he who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.  
Lv0719 “Flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned up with fire. All who are clean may eat flesh,  
Lv0720 but the person who eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of the LORD’s peace offerings while an uncleanness is on him, that person shall be cut off from his people.  
Lv0721 And if anyone touches an unclean thing, whether human uncleanness or an unclean beast or any unclean detestable creature, and then eats some flesh from the sacrifice of the LORD’s peace offerings, that person shall be cut off from his people.”  
Lv0722 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv0723 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, You shall eat no fat, of ox or sheep or goat.  
Lv0724 The fat of an animal that dies of itself and the fat of one that is torn by beasts may be put to any other use, but on no account shall you eat it.  
Lv0725 For every person who eats of the fat of an animal of which a food offering may be made to the LORD shall be cut off from his people.  
Lv0726 Moreover, you shall eat no blood whatever, whether of fowl or of animal, in any of your dwelling places.  
Lv0727 Whoever eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.”  
Lv0728 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv0729 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever offers the sacrifice of his peace offerings to the LORD shall bring his offering to the LORD from the sacrifice of his peace offerings.  
Lv0730 His own hands shall bring the LORD’s food offerings. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved as a wave offering before the LORD.  
Lv0731 The priest shall burn the fat on the altar, but the breast shall be for Aaron and his sons.  
Lv0732 And the right thigh you shall give to the priest as a contribution from the sacrifice of your peace offerings.  
Lv0733 Whoever among the sons of Aaron offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh for a portion.  
Lv0734 For the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed I have taken from the people of Israel, out of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons, as a perpetual due from the people of Israel.  
Lv0735 This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the LORD’s food offerings, from the day they were presented to serve as priests of the LORD.  
Lv0736 The LORD commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, from the day that he anointed them. It is a perpetual due throughout their generations.”  
Lv0737 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the grain offering, of the sin offering, of the guilt offering, of the ordination offering, and of the peace offering,  
Lv0738 which the LORD commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day that he commanded the people of Israel to bring their offerings to the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.  
Lv0801 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv0802 “Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil and the bull of the sin offering and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread.  
Lv0803 And assemble all the congregation at the entrance of the tent of meeting.”  
Lv0804 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him, and the congregation was assembled at the entrance of the tent of meeting.  
Lv0805 And Moses said to the congregation, “This is the thing that the LORD has commanded to be done.”  
Lv0806 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them with water.  
Lv0807 And he put the coat on him and tied the sash around his waist and clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him and tied the skillfully woven band of the ephod around him, binding it to him with the band.  
Lv0808 And he placed the breastpiece on him, and in the breastpiece he put the Urim and the Thummim.  
Lv0809 And he set the turban on his head, and on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown, as the LORD commanded Moses.  
Lv0810 Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.  
Lv0811 And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.  
Lv0812 And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him.  
Lv0813 And Moses brought Aaron’s sons and clothed them with coats and tied sashes around their waists and bound caps on them, as the LORD commanded Moses.  
Lv0814 Then he brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.  
Lv0815 And he killed it, and Moses took the blood, and with his finger put it on the horns of the altar around it and purified the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it to make atonement for it.  
Lv0816 And he took all the fat that was on the entrails and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat, and Moses burned them on the altar.  
Lv0817 But the bull and its skin and its flesh and its dung he burned up with fire outside the camp, as the LORD commanded Moses.  
Lv0818 Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.  
Lv0819 And he killed it, and Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar.  
Lv0820 He cut the ram into pieces, and Moses burned the head and the pieces and the fat.  
Lv0821 He washed the entrails and the legs with water, and Moses burned the whole ram on the altar. It was a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering for the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.  
Lv0822 Then he presented the other ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.  
Lv0823 And he killed it, and Moses took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.  
Lv0824 Then he presented Aaron’s sons, and Moses put some of the blood on the lobes of their right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet. And Moses threw the blood against the sides of the altar.  
Lv0825 Then he took the fat and the fat tail and all the fat that was on the entrails and the long lobe of the liver and the two kidneys with their fat and the right thigh,  
Lv0826 and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD he took one unleavened loaf and one loaf of bread with oil and one wafer and placed them on the pieces of fat and on the right thigh.  
Lv0827 And he put all these in the hands of Aaron and in the hands of his sons and waved them as a wave offering before the LORD.  
Lv0828 Then Moses took them from their hands and burned them on the altar with the burnt offering. This was an ordination offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.  
Lv0829 And Moses took the breast and waved it for a wave offering before the LORD. It was Moses’ portion of the ram of ordination, as the LORD commanded Moses.  
Lv0830 Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments, and also on his sons and his sons’ garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments, and his sons and his sons’ garments with him.  
Lv0831 And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the flesh at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’  
Lv0832 And what remains of the flesh and the bread you shall burn up with fire.  
Lv0833 And you shall not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the days of your ordination are completed, for it will take seven days to ordain you.  
Lv0834 As has been done today, the LORD has commanded to be done to make atonement for you.  
Lv0835 At the entrance of the tent of meeting you shall remain day and night for seven days, performing what the LORD has charged, so that you do not die, for so I have been commanded.”  
Lv0836 And Aaron and his sons did all the things that the LORD commanded by Moses.  
Lv0901 On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel,  
Lv0902 and he said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and offer them before the LORD.  
Lv0903 And say to the people of Israel, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, and a calf and a lamb, both a year old without blemish, for a burnt offering,  
Lv0904 and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD, and a grain offering mixed with oil, for today the LORD will appear to you.’”  
Lv0905 And they brought what Moses commanded in front of the tent of meeting, and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.  
Lv0906 And Moses said, “This is the thing that the LORD commanded you to do, that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.”  
Lv0907 Then Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar and offer your sin offering and your burnt offering and make atonement for yourself and for the people, and bring the offering of the people and make atonement for them, as the LORD has commanded.”  
Lv0908 So Aaron drew near to the altar and killed the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.  
Lv0909 And the sons of Aaron presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar and poured out the blood at the base of the altar.  
Lv0910 But the fat and the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver from the sin offering he burned on the altar, as the LORD commanded Moses.  
Lv0911 The flesh and the skin he burned up with fire outside the camp.  
Lv0912 Then he killed the burnt offering, and Aaron’s sons handed him the blood, and he threw it against the sides of the altar.  
Lv0913 And they handed the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head, and he burned them on the altar.  
Lv0914 And he washed the entrails and the legs and burned them with the burnt offering on the altar.  
Lv0915 Then he presented the people’s offering and took the goat of the sin offering that was for the people and killed it and offered it as a sin offering, like the first one.  
Lv0916 And he presented the burnt offering and offered it according to the rule.  
Lv0917 And he presented the grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.  
Lv0918 Then he killed the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings for the people. And Aaron’s sons handed him the blood, and he threw it against the sides of the altar.  
Lv0919 But the fat pieces of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail and that which covers the entrails and the kidneys and the long lobe of the liver—  
Lv0920 they put the fat pieces on the breasts, and he burned the fat pieces on the altar,  
Lv0921 but the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses commanded.  
Lv0922 Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and he came down from offering the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings.  
Lv0923 And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.  
Lv0924 And fire came out from before the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.  
Lv1001 Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them.  
Lv1002 And fire came out from before the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.  
Lv1003 Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Among those who are near me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” And Aaron held his peace.  
Lv1004 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, “Come near; carry your brothers away from the front of the sanctuary and out of the camp.”  
Lv1005 So they came near and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said.  
Lv1006 And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sons, “Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose, and do not tear your clothes, lest you die, and wrath come upon all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning that the LORD has kindled.  
Lv1007 And do not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting, lest you die, for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you.” And they did according to the word of Moses.  
Lv1008 And the LORD spoke to Aaron, saying,  
Lv1009 “Drink no wine or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.  
Lv1010 You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean,  
Lv1011 and you are to teach the people of Israel all the statutes that the LORD has spoken to them by Moses.”  
Lv1012 Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his surviving sons: “Take the grain offering that is left of the LORD’s food offerings, and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy.  
Lv1013 You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your due and your sons’ due, from the LORD’s food offerings, for so I am commanded.  
Lv1014 But the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you, for they are given as your due and your sons’ due from the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the people of Israel.  
Lv1015 The thigh that is contributed and the breast that is waved they shall bring with the food offerings of the fat pieces to wave for a wave offering before the LORD, and it shall be yours and your sons’ with you as a due forever, as the LORD has commanded.”  
Lv1016 Now Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it was burned up! And he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the surviving sons of Aaron, saying,  
Lv1017 “Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is a thing most holy and has been given to you that you may bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?  
Lv1018 Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary. You certainly ought to have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.”  
Lv1019 And Aaron said to Moses, “Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD, and yet such things as these have happened to me! If I had eaten the sin offering today, would the LORD have approved?”  
Lv1020 And when Moses heard that, he approved.  
Lv1101 And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them,  
Lv1102 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.  
Lv1103 Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.  
Lv1104 Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.  
Lv1105 And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.  
Lv1106 And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you.  
Lv1107 And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.  
Lv1108 You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.  
Lv1109 “These you may eat, of all that are in the waters. Everything in the waters that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the rivers, you may eat.  
Lv1110 But anything in the seas or the rivers that does not have fins and scales, of the swarming creatures in the waters and of the living creatures that are in the waters, is detestable to you.  
Lv1111 You shall regard them as detestable; you shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall detest their carcasses.  
Lv1112 Everything in the waters that does not have fins and scales is detestable to you.  
Lv1113 “And these you shall detest among the birds; they shall not be eaten; they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,  
Lv1114 the kite, the falcon of any kind,  
Lv1115 every raven of any kind,  
Lv1116 the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind,  
Lv1117 the little owl, the cormorant, the short-eared owl,  
Lv1118 the barn owl, the tawny owl, the carrion vulture,  
Lv1119 the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.  
Lv1120 “All winged insects that go on all fours are detestable to you.  
Lv1121 Yet among the winged insects that go on all fours you may eat those that have jointed legs above their feet, with which to hop on the ground.  
Lv1122 Of them you may eat: the locust of any kind, the bald locust of any kind, the cricket of any kind, and the grasshopper of any kind.  
Lv1123 But all other winged insects that have four feet are detestable to you.  
Lv1124 “And by these you shall become unclean. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,  
Lv1125 and whoever carries any part of their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.  
Lv1126 Every animal that parts the hoof but is not cloven-footed or does not chew the cud is unclean to you. Everyone who touches them shall be unclean.  
Lv1127 And all that walk on their paws, among the animals that go on all fours, are unclean to you. Whoever touches their carcass shall be unclean until the evening,  
Lv1128 and he who carries their carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.  
Lv1129 “And these are unclean to you among the swarming things that swarm on the ground: the mole rat, the mouse, the great lizard of any kind,  
Lv1130 the gecko, the monitor lizard, the lizard, the sand lizard, and the chameleon.  
Lv1131 These are unclean to you among all that swarm. Whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until the evening.  
Lv1132 And anything on which any of them falls when they are dead shall be unclean, whether it is an article of wood or a garment or a skin or a sack, any article that is used for any purpose. It must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening; then it shall be clean.  
Lv1133 And if any of them falls into any earthenware vessel, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.  
Lv1134 Any food in it that could be eaten, on which water comes, shall be unclean. And all drink that could be drunk from every such vessel shall be unclean.  
Lv1135 And everything on which any part of their carcass falls shall be unclean. Whether oven or stove, it shall be broken in pieces. They are unclean and shall remain unclean for you.  
Lv1136 Nevertheless, a spring or a cistern holding water shall be clean, but whoever touches a carcass in them shall be unclean.  
Lv1137 And if any part of their carcass falls upon any seed grain that is to be sown, it is clean,  
Lv1138 but if water is put on the seed and any part of their carcass falls on it, it is unclean to you.  
Lv1139 “And if any animal which you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening,  
Lv1140 and whoever eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries the carcass shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening.  
Lv1141 “Every swarming thing that swarms on the ground is detestable; it shall not be eaten.  
Lv1142 Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, any swarming thing that swarms on the ground, you shall not eat, for they are detestable.  
Lv1143 You shall not make yourselves detestable with any swarming thing that swarms, and you shall not defile yourselves with them, and become unclean through them.  
Lv1144 For I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.  
Lv1145 For I am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”  
Lv1146 This is the law about beast and bird and every living creature that moves through the waters and every creature that swarms on the ground,  
Lv1147 to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten.  
Lv1201 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv1202 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If a woman conceives and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days. As at the time of her menstruation, she shall be unclean.  
Lv1203 And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.  
Lv1204 Then she shall continue for thirty-three days in the blood of her purifying. She shall not touch anything holy, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying are completed.  
Lv1205 But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying for sixty-six days.  
Lv1206 “And when the days of her purifying are completed, whether for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting a lamb a year old for a burnt offering, and a pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering,  
Lv1207 and he shall offer it before the LORD and make atonement for her. Then she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, either male or female.  
Lv1208 And if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.”  
Lv1301 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,  
Lv1302 “When a person has on the skin of his body a swelling or an eruption or a spot, and it turns into a case of leprous disease on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests,  
Lv1303 and the priest shall examine the diseased area on the skin of his body. And if the hair in the diseased area has turned white and the disease appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a case of leprous disease. When the priest has examined him, he shall pronounce him unclean.  
Lv1304 But if the spot is white in the skin of his body and appears no deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest shall shut up the diseased person for seven days.  
Lv1305 And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day, and if in his eyes the disease is checked and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up for another seven days.  
Lv1306 And the priest shall examine him again on the seventh day, and if the diseased area has faded and the disease has not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only an eruption. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.  
Lv1307 But if the eruption spreads in the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall appear again before the priest.  
Lv1308 And the priest shall look, and if the eruption has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a leprous disease.  
Lv1309 “When a man is afflicted with a leprous disease, he shall be brought to the priest,  
Lv1310 and the priest shall look. And if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,  
Lv1311 it is a chronic leprous disease in the skin of his body, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean. He shall not shut him up, for he is unclean.  
Lv1312 And if the leprous disease breaks out in the skin, so that the leprous disease covers all the skin of the diseased person from head to foot, so far as the priest can see,  
Lv1313 then the priest shall look, and if the leprous disease has covered all his body, he shall pronounce him clean of the disease; it has all turned white, and he is clean.  
Lv1314 But when raw flesh appears on him, he shall be unclean.  
Lv1315 And the priest shall examine the raw flesh and pronounce him unclean. Raw flesh is unclean, for it is a leprous disease.  
Lv1316 But if the raw flesh recovers and turns white again, then he shall come to the priest,  
Lv1317 and the priest shall examine him, and if the disease has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce the diseased person clean; he is clean.  
Lv1318 “If there is in the skin of one’s body a boil and it heals,  
Lv1319 and in the place of the boil there comes a white swelling or a reddish-white spot, then it shall be shown to the priest.  
Lv1320 And the priest shall look, and if it appears deeper than the skin and its hair has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is a case of leprous disease that has broken out in the boil.  
Lv1321 But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in it and it is not deeper than the skin, but has faded, then the priest shall shut him up seven days.  
Lv1322 And if it spreads in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a disease.  
Lv1323 But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread, it is the scar of the boil, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.  
Lv1324 “Or, when the body has a burn on its skin and the raw flesh of the burn becomes a spot, reddish-white or white,  
Lv1325 the priest shall examine it, and if the hair in the spot has turned white and it appears deeper than the skin, then it is a leprous disease. It has broken out in the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a case of leprous disease.  
Lv1326 But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the spot and it is no deeper than the skin, but has faded, the priest shall shut him up seven days,  
Lv1327 and the priest shall examine him the seventh day. If it is spreading in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a case of leprous disease.  
Lv1328 But if the spot remains in one place and does not spread in the skin, but has faded, it is a swelling from the burn, and the priest shall pronounce him clean, for it is the scar of the burn.  
Lv1329 “When a man or woman has a disease on the head or the beard,  
Lv1330 the priest shall examine the disease. And if it appears deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch, a leprous disease of the head or the beard.  
Lv1331 And if the priest examines the itching disease and it appears no deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up the person with the itching disease for seven days,  
Lv1332 and on the seventh day the priest shall examine the disease. If the itch has not spread, and there is in it no yellow hair, and the itch appears to be no deeper than the skin,  
Lv1333 then he shall shave himself, but the itch he shall not shave; and the priest shall shut up the person with the itching disease for another seven days.  
Lv1334 And on the seventh day the priest shall examine the itch, and if the itch has not spread in the skin and it appears to be no deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean. And he shall wash his clothes and be clean.  
Lv1335 But if the itch spreads in the skin after his cleansing,  
Lv1336 then the priest shall examine him, and if the itch has spread in the skin, the priest need not seek for the yellow hair; he is unclean.  
Lv1337 But if in his eyes the itch is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, the itch is healed and he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean.  
Lv1338 “When a man or a woman has spots on the skin of the body, white spots,  
Lv1339 the priest shall look, and if the spots on the skin of the body are of a dull white, it is leukoderma that has broken out in the skin; he is clean.  
Lv1340 “If a man’s hair falls out from his head, he is bald; he is clean.  
Lv1341 And if a man’s hair falls out from his forehead, he has baldness of the forehead; he is clean.  
Lv1342 But if there is on the bald head or the bald forehead a reddish-white diseased area, it is a leprous disease breaking out on his bald head or his bald forehead.  
Lv1343 Then the priest shall examine him, and if the diseased swelling is reddish-white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprous disease in the skin of the body,  
Lv1344 he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean; his disease is on his head.  
Lv1345 “The leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean.’  
Lv1346 He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp.  
Lv1347 “When there is a case of leprous disease in a garment, whether a woolen or a linen garment,  
Lv1348 in warp or woof of linen or wool, or in a skin or in anything made of skin,  
Lv1349 if the disease is greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin or in the warp or the woof or in any article made of skin, it is a case of leprous disease, and it shall be shown to the priest.  
Lv1350 And the priest shall examine the disease and shut up that which has the disease for seven days.  
Lv1351 Then he shall examine the disease on the seventh day. If the disease has spread in the garment, in the warp or the woof, or in the skin, whatever be the use of the skin, the disease is a persistent leprous disease; it is unclean.  
Lv1352 And he shall burn the garment, or the warp or the woof, the wool or the linen, or any article made of skin that is diseased, for it is a persistent leprous disease. It shall be burned in the fire.  
Lv1353 “And if the priest examines, and if the disease has not spread in the garment, in the warp or the woof or in any article made of skin,  
Lv1354 then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which is the disease, and he shall shut it up for another seven days.  
Lv1355 And the priest shall examine the diseased thing after it has been washed. And if the appearance of the diseased area has not changed, though the disease has not spread, it is unclean. You shall burn it in the fire, whether the rot is on the back or on the front.  
Lv1356 “But if the priest examines, and if the diseased area has faded after it has been washed, he shall tear it out of the garment or the skin or the warp or the woof.  
Lv1357 Then if it appears again in the garment, in the warp or the woof, or in any article made of skin, it is spreading. You shall burn with fire whatever has the disease.  
Lv1358 But the garment, or the warp or the woof, or any article made of skin from which the disease departs when you have washed it, shall then be washed a second time, and be clean.”  
Lv1359 This is the law for a case of leprous disease in a garment of wool or linen, either in the warp or the woof, or in any article made of skin, to determine whether it is clean or unclean.  
Lv1401 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv1402 “This shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest,  
Lv1403 and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall look. Then, if the case of leprous disease is healed in the leprous person,  
Lv1404 the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop.  
Lv1405 And the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water.  
Lv1406 He shall take the live bird with the cedarwood and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water.  
Lv1407 And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed of the leprous disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and shall let the living bird go into the open field.  
Lv1408 And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean. And after that he may come into the camp, but live outside his tent seven days.  
Lv1409 And on the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair, and then he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.  
Lv1410 “And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil.  
Lv1411 And the priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed and these things before the LORD, at the entrance of the tent of meeting.  
Lv1412 And the priest shall take one of the male lambs and offer it for a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.  
Lv1413 And he shall kill the lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary. For the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy.  
Lv1414 The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.  
Lv1415 Then the priest shall take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand  
Lv1416 and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand and sprinkle some oil with his finger seven times before the LORD.  
Lv1417 And some of the oil that remains in his hand the priest shall put on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.  
Lv1418 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. Then the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD.  
Lv1419 The priest shall offer the sin offering, to make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. And afterward he shall kill the burnt offering.  
Lv1420 And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.  
Lv1421 “But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil;  
Lv1422 also two turtledoves or two pigeons, whichever he can afford. The one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.  
Lv1423 And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, before the LORD.  
Lv1424 And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD.  
Lv1425 And he shall kill the lamb of the guilt offering. And the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.  
Lv1426 And the priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand,  
Lv1427 and shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD.  
Lv1428 And the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, in the place where the blood of the guilt offering was put.  
Lv1429 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.  
Lv1430 And he shall offer, of the turtledoves or pigeons, whichever he can afford,  
Lv1431 one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, along with a grain offering. And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for him who is being cleansed.  
Lv1432 This is the law for him in whom is a case of leprous disease, who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing.”  
Lv1433 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,  
Lv1434 “When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession,  
Lv1435 then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘There seems to me to be some case of disease in my house.’  
Lv1436 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house before the priest goes to examine the disease, lest all that is in the house be declared unclean. And afterward the priest shall go in to see the house.  
Lv1437 And he shall examine the disease. And if the disease is in the walls of the house with greenish or reddish spots, and if it appears to be deeper than the surface,  
Lv1438 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days.  
Lv1439 And the priest shall come again on the seventh day, and look. If the disease has spread in the walls of the house,  
Lv1440 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which is the disease and throw them into an unclean place outside the city.  
Lv1441 And he shall have the inside of the house scraped all around, and the plaster that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city.  
Lv1442 Then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and plaster the house.  
Lv1443 “If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it,  
Lv1444 then the priest shall go and look. And if the disease has spread in the house, it is a persistent leprous disease in the house; it is unclean.  
Lv1445 And he shall break down the house, its stones and timber and all the plaster of the house, and he shall carry them out of the city to an unclean place.  
Lv1446 Moreover, whoever enters the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening,  
Lv1447 and whoever sleeps in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.  
Lv1448 “But if the priest comes and looks, and if the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, for the disease is healed.  
Lv1449 And for the cleansing of the house he shall take two small birds, with cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop,  
Lv1450 and shall kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water  
Lv1451 and shall take the cedarwood and the hyssop and the scarlet yarn, along with the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed and in the fresh water and sprinkle the house seven times.  
Lv1452 Thus he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the fresh water and with the live bird and with the cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn.  
Lv1453 And he shall let the live bird go out of the city into the open country. So he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.”  
Lv1454 This is the law for any case of leprous disease: for an itch,  
Lv1455 for leprous disease in a garment or in a house,  
Lv1456 and for a swelling or an eruption or a spot,  
Lv1457 to show when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for leprous disease.  
Lv1501 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,  
Lv1502 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.  
Lv1503 And this is the law of his uncleanness for a discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body is blocked up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness.  
Lv1504 Every bed on which the one with the discharge lies shall be unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.  
Lv1505 And anyone who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.  
Lv1506 And whoever sits on anything on which the one with the discharge has sat shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.  
Lv1507 And whoever touches the body of the one with the discharge shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.  
Lv1508 And if the one with the discharge spits on someone who is clean, then he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.  
Lv1509 And any saddle on which the one with the discharge rides shall be unclean.  
Lv1510 And whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. And whoever carries such things shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.  
Lv1511 Anyone whom the one with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.  
Lv1512 And an earthenware vessel that the one with the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.  
Lv1513 “And when the one with a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes. And he shall bathe his body in fresh water and shall be clean.  
Lv1514 And on the eighth day he shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and come before the LORD to the entrance of the tent of meeting and give them to the priest.  
Lv1515 And the priest shall use them, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him before the LORD for his discharge.  
Lv1516 “If a man has an emission of semen, he shall bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until the evening.  
Lv1517 And every garment and every skin on which the semen comes shall be washed with water and be unclean until the evening.  
Lv1518 If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening.  
Lv1519 “When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.  
Lv1520 And everything on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean. Everything also on which she sits shall be unclean.  
Lv1521 And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.  
Lv1522 And whoever touches anything on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.  
Lv1523 Whether it is the bed or anything on which she sits, when he touches it he shall be unclean until the evening.  
Lv1524 And if any man lies with her and her menstrual impurity comes upon him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.  
Lv1525 “If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, not at the time of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond the time of her impurity, all the days of the discharge she shall continue in uncleanness. As in the days of her impurity, she shall be unclean.  
Lv1526 Every bed on which she lies, all the days of her discharge, shall be to her as the bed of her impurity. And everything on which she sits shall be unclean, as in the uncleanness of her menstrual impurity.  
Lv1527 And whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.  
Lv1528 But if she is cleansed of her discharge, she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.  
Lv1529 And on the eighth day she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons and bring them to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting.  
Lv1530 And the priest shall use one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for her before the LORD for her unclean discharge.  
Lv1531 “Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst.”  
Lv1532 This is the law for him who has a discharge and for him who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean thereby;  
Lv1533 also for her who is unwell with her menstrual impurity, that is, for anyone, male or female, who has a discharge, and for the man who lies with a woman who is unclean.  
Lv1601 The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the LORD and died,  
Lv1602 and the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.  
Lv1603 But in this way Aaron shall come into the Holy Place: with a bull from the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.  
Lv1604 He shall put on the holy linen coat and shall have the linen undergarment on his body, and he shall tie the linen sash around his waist, and wear the linen turban; these are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water and then put them on.  
Lv1605 And he shall take from the congregation of the people of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.  
Lv1606 “Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering for himself and shall make atonement for himself and for his house.  
Lv1607 Then he shall take the two goats and set them before the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting.  
Lv1608 And Aaron shall cast lots over the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other lot for Azazel.  
Lv1609 And Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the LORD and use it as a sin offering,  
Lv1610 but the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel shall be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Azazel.  
Lv1611 “Aaron shall present the bull as a sin offering for himself, and shall make atonement for himself and for his house. He shall kill the bull as a sin offering for himself.  
Lv1612 And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and he shall bring it inside the veil  
Lv1613 and put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is over the testimony, so that he does not die.  
Lv1614 And he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat on the east side, and in front of the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.  
Lv1615 “Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring its blood inside the veil and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, sprinkling it over the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat.  
Lv1616 Thus he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleannesses of the people of Israel and because of their transgressions, all their sins. And so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.  
Lv1617 No one may be in the tent of meeting from the time he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place until he comes out and has made atonement for himself and for his house and for all the assembly of Israel.  
Lv1618 Then he shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around.  
Lv1619 And he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it and consecrate it from the uncleannesses of the people of Israel.  
Lv1620 “And when he has made an end of atoning for the Holy Place and the tent of meeting and the altar, he shall present the live goat.  
Lv1621 And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins. And he shall put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.  
Lv1622 The goat shall bear all their iniquities on itself to a remote area, and he shall let the goat go free in the wilderness.  
Lv1623 “Then Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting and shall take off the linen garments that he put on when he went into the Holy Place and shall leave them there.  
Lv1624 And he shall bathe his body in water in a holy place and put on his garments and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people and make atonement for himself and for the people.  
Lv1625 And the fat of the sin offering he shall burn on the altar.  
Lv1626 And he who lets the goat go to Azazel shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.  
Lv1627 And the bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried outside the camp. Their skin and their flesh and their dung shall be burned up with fire.  
Lv1628 And he who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.  
Lv1629 “And it shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you.  
Lv1630 For on this day shall atonement be made for you to cleanse you. You shall be clean before the LORD from all your sins.  
Lv1631 It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; it is a statute forever.  
Lv1632 And the priest who is anointed and consecrated as priest in his father’s place shall make atonement, wearing the holy linen garments.  
Lv1633 He shall make atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.  
Lv1634 And this shall be a statute forever for you, that atonement may be made for the people of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.” And Aaron did as the LORD commanded Moses.  
Lv1701 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv1702 “Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the people of Israel and say to them, This is the thing that the LORD has commanded.  
Lv1703 If any one of the house of Israel kills an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or kills it outside the camp,  
Lv1704 and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it as a gift to the LORD in front of the tabernacle of the LORD, bloodguilt shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood, and that man shall be cut off from among his people.  
Lv1705 This is to the end that the people of Israel may bring their sacrifices that they sacrifice in the open field, that they may bring them to the LORD, to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and sacrifice them as sacrifices of peace offerings to the LORD.  
Lv1706 And the priest shall throw the blood on the altar of the LORD at the entrance of the tent of meeting and burn the fat for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.  
Lv1707 So they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to goat demons, after whom they whore. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.  
Lv1708 “And you shall say to them, Any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice  
Lv1709 and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to offer it to the LORD, that man shall be cut off from his people.  
Lv1710 “If any one of the house of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.  
Lv1711 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.  
Lv1712 Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.  
Lv1713 “Any one also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.  
Lv1714 For the life of every creature is its blood: its blood is its life. Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.  
Lv1715 And every person who eats what dies of itself or what is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or a sojourner, shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening; then he shall be clean.  
Lv1716 But if he does not wash them or bathe his flesh, he shall bear his iniquity.”  
Lv1801 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv1802 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the LORD your God.  
Lv1803 You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes.  
Lv1804 You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the LORD your God.  
Lv1805 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.  
Lv1806 “None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the LORD.  
Lv1807 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness.  
Lv1808 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.  
Lv1809 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home.  
Lv1810 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter or of your daughter’s daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.  
Lv1811 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, brought up in your father’s family, since she is your sister.  
Lv1812 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s relative.  
Lv1813 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s relative.  
Lv1814 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.  
Lv1815 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.  
Lv1816 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.  
Lv1817 You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity.  
Lv1818 And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.  
Lv1819 “You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness.  
Lv1820 And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her.  
Lv1821 You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.  
Lv1822 You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.  
Lv1823 And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.  
Lv1824 “Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,  
Lv1825 and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.  
Lv1826 But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you  
Lv1827 (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean),  
Lv1828 lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.  
Lv1829 For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people.  
Lv1830 So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the LORD your God.”  
Lv1901 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv1902 “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.  
Lv1903 Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.  
Lv1904 Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the LORD your God.  
Lv1905 “When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.  
Lv1906 It shall be eaten the same day you offer it or on the day after, and anything left over until the third day shall be burned up with fire.  
Lv1907 If it is eaten at all on the third day, it is tainted; it will not be accepted,  
Lv1908 and everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned what is holy to the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from his people.  
Lv1909 “When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest.  
Lv1910 And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD your God.  
Lv1911 “You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.  
Lv1912 You shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.  
Lv1913 “You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning.  
Lv1914 You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.  
Lv1915 “You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.  
Lv1916 You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD.  
Lv1917 “You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.  
Lv1918 You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.  
Lv1919 “You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.  
Lv1920 “If a man lies sexually with a woman who is a slave, assigned to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, a distinction shall be made. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free;  
Lv1921 but he shall bring his compensation to the LORD, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt offering.  
Lv1922 And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering before the LORD for his sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven for the sin that he has committed.  
Lv1923 “When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, then you shall regard its fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you; it must not be eaten.  
Lv1924 And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD.  
Lv1925 But in the fifth year you may eat of its fruit, to increase its yield for you: I am the LORD your God.  
Lv1926 “You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.  
Lv1927 You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.  
Lv1928 You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the LORD.  
Lv1929 “Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity.  
Lv1930 You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.  
Lv1931 “Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the LORD your God.  
Lv1932 “You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.  
Lv1933 “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.  
Lv1934 You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.  
Lv1935 “You shall do no wrong in judgment, in measures of length or weight or quantity.  
Lv1936 You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.  
Lv1937 And you shall observe all my statutes and all my rules, and do them: I am the LORD.”  
Lv2001 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv2002 “Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.  
Lv2003 I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name.  
Lv2004 And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,  
Lv2005 then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech.  
Lv2006 “If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.  
Lv2007 Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the LORD your God.  
Lv2008 Keep my statutes and do them; I am the LORD who sanctifies you.  
Lv2009 For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.  
Lv2010 “If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.  
Lv2011 If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.  
Lv2012 If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed perversion; their blood is upon them.  
Lv2013 If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.  
Lv2014 If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you.  
Lv2015 If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.  
Lv2016 If a woman approaches any animal and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.  
Lv2017 “If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness, and he shall bear his iniquity.  
Lv2018 If a man lies with a woman during her menstrual period and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.  
Lv2019 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, for that is to make naked one’s relative; they shall bear their iniquity.  
Lv2020 If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.  
Lv2021 If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.  
Lv2022 “You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.  
Lv2023 And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them.  
Lv2024 But I have said to you, ‘You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the LORD your God, who has separated you from the peoples.  
Lv2025 You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.  
Lv2026 You shall be holy to me, for I the LORD am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.  
Lv2027 “A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them.”  
Lv2101 And the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them, No one shall make himself unclean for the dead among his people,  
Lv2102 except for his closest relatives, his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, his brother,  
Lv2103 or his virgin sister (who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may make himself unclean).  
Lv2104 He shall not make himself unclean as a husband among his people and so profane himself.  
Lv2105 They shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body.  
Lv2106 They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. For they offer the LORD’s food offerings, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.  
Lv2107 They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.  
Lv2108 You shall sanctify him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I, the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.  
Lv2109 And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire.  
Lv2110 “The priest who is chief among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose nor tear his clothes.  
Lv2111 He shall not go in to any dead bodies nor make himself unclean, even for his father or for his mother.  
Lv2112 He shall not go out of the sanctuary, lest he profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him: I am the LORD.  
Lv2113 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.  
Lv2114 A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people,  
Lv2115 that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.”  
Lv2116 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv2117 “Speak to Aaron, saying, None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish may approach to offer the bread of his God.  
Lv2118 For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face or a limb too long,  
Lv2119 or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand,  
Lv2120 or a hunchback or a dwarf or a man with a defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or crushed testicles.  
Lv2121 No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to offer the LORD’s food offerings; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.  
Lv2122 He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy and of the holy things,  
Lv2123 but he shall not go through the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”  
Lv2124 So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel.  
Lv2201 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv2202 “Speak to Aaron and his sons so that they abstain from the holy things of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they do not profane my holy name: I am the LORD.  
Lv2203 Say to them, ‘If any one of all your offspring throughout your generations approaches the holy things that the people of Israel dedicate to the LORD, while he has an uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.  
Lv2204 None of the offspring of Aaron who has a leprous disease or a discharge may eat of the holy things until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean through contact with the dead or a man who has had an emission of semen,  
Lv2205 and whoever touches a swarming thing by which he may be made unclean or a person from whom he may take uncleanness, whatever his uncleanness may be—  
Lv2206 the person who touches such a thing shall be unclean until the evening and shall not eat of the holy things unless he has bathed his body in water.  
Lv2207 When the sun goes down he shall be clean, and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because they are his food.  
Lv2208 He shall not eat what dies of itself or is torn by beasts, and so make himself unclean by it: I am the LORD.’  
Lv2209 They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it and die thereby when they profane it: I am the LORD who sanctifies them.  
Lv2210 “A lay person shall not eat of a holy thing; no foreign guest of the priest or hired worker shall eat of a holy thing,  
Lv2211 but if a priest buys a slave as his property for money, the slave may eat of it, and anyone born in his house may eat of his food.  
Lv2212 If a priest’s daughter marries a layman, she shall not eat of the contribution of the holy things.  
Lv2213 But if a priest’s daughter is widowed or divorced and has no child and returns to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s food; yet no lay person shall eat of it.  
Lv2214 And if anyone eats of a holy thing unintentionally, he shall add the fifth of its value to it and give the holy thing to the priest.  
Lv2215 They shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, which they contribute to the LORD,  
Lv2216 and so cause them to bear iniquity and guilt, by eating their holy things: for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.”  
Lv2217 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv2218 “Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel and say to them, When any one of the house of Israel or of the sojourners in Israel presents a burnt offering as his offering, for any of their vows or freewill offerings that they offer to the LORD,  
Lv2219 if it is to be accepted for you it shall be a male without blemish, of the bulls or the sheep or the goats.  
Lv2220 You shall not offer anything that has a blemish, for it will not be acceptable for you.  
Lv2221 And when anyone offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or from the flock, to be accepted it must be perfect; there shall be no blemish in it.  
Lv2222 Animals blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or an itch or scabs you shall not offer to the LORD or give them to the LORD as a food offering on the altar.  
Lv2223 You may present a bull or a lamb that has a part too long or too short for a freewill offering, but for a vow offering it cannot be accepted.  
Lv2224 Any animal that has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut you shall not offer to the LORD; you shall not do it within your land,  
Lv2225 neither shall you offer as the bread of your God any such animals gotten from a foreigner. Since there is a blemish in them, because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted for you.”  
Lv2226 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv2227 “When an ox or sheep or goat is born, it shall remain seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as a food offering to the LORD.  
Lv2228 But you shall not kill an ox or a sheep and her young in one day.  
Lv2229 And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the LORD, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.  
Lv2230 It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it until morning: I am the LORD.  
Lv2231 “So you shall keep my commandments and do them: I am the LORD.  
Lv2232 And you shall not profane my holy name, that I may be sanctified among the people of Israel. I am the LORD who sanctifies you,  
Lv2233 who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD.”  
Lv2301 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv2302 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, These are the appointed feasts of the LORD that you shall proclaim as holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts.  
Lv2303 “Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the LORD in all your dwelling places.  
Lv2304 “These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them.  
Lv2305 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the LORD’s Passover.  
Lv2306 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.  
Lv2307 On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.  
Lv2308 But you shall present a food offering to the LORD for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.”  
Lv2309 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv2310 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest,  
Lv2311 and he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.  
Lv2312 And on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD.  
Lv2313 And the grain offering with it shall be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, a food offering to the LORD with a pleasing aroma, and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, a fourth of a hin.  
Lv2314 And you shall eat neither bread nor grain parched or fresh until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.  
Lv2315 “You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering.  
Lv2316 You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to the LORD.  
Lv2317 You shall bring from your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour, and they shall be baked with leaven, as firstfruits to the LORD.  
Lv2318 And you shall present with the bread seven lambs a year old without blemish, and one bull from the herd and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.  
Lv2319 And you shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings.  
Lv2320 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.  
Lv2321 And you shall make a proclamation on the same day. You shall hold a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a statute forever in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.  
Lv2322 “And when you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, nor shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the LORD your God.”  
Lv2323 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv2324 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation.  
Lv2325 You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall present a food offering to the LORD.”  
Lv2326 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv2327 “Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the LORD.  
Lv2328 And you shall not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God.  
Lv2329 For whoever is not afflicted on that very day shall be cut off from his people.  
Lv2330 And whoever does any work on that very day, that person I will destroy from among his people.  
Lv2331 You shall not do any work. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.  
Lv2332 It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening shall you keep your Sabbath.”  
Lv2333 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv2334 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the LORD.  
Lv2335 On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.  
Lv2336 For seven days you shall present food offerings to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you shall not do any ordinary work.  
Lv2337 “These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the LORD food offerings, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day,  
Lv2338 besides the LORD’s Sabbaths and besides your gifts and besides all your vow offerings and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to the LORD.  
Lv2339 “On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the LORD seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.  
Lv2340 And you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.  
Lv2341 You shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.  
Lv2342 You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All native Israelites shall dwell in booths,  
Lv2343 that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.”  
Lv2344 Thus Moses declared to the people of Israel the appointed feasts of the LORD.  
Lv2401 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv2402 “Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly.  
Lv2403 Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the LORD regularly. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.  
Lv2404 He shall arrange the lamps on the lampstand of pure gold before the LORD regularly.  
Lv2405 “You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.  
Lv2406 And you shall set them in two piles, six in a pile, on the table of pure gold before the LORD.  
Lv2407 And you shall put pure frankincense on each pile, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion as a food offering to the LORD.  
Lv2408 Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the LORD regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever.  
Lv2409 And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the LORD’s food offerings, a perpetual due.”  
Lv2410 Now an Israelite woman’s son, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel. And the Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel fought in the camp,  
Lv2411 and the Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name, and cursed. Then they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.  
Lv2412 And they put him in custody, till the will of the LORD should be clear to them.  
Lv2413 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv2414 “Bring out of the camp the one who cursed, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.  
Lv2415 And speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.  
Lv2416 Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.  
Lv2417 “Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.  
Lv2418 Whoever takes an animal’s life shall make it good, life for life.  
Lv2419 If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him,  
Lv2420 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him.  
Lv2421 Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, and whoever kills a person shall be put to death.  
Lv2422 You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the LORD your God.”  
Lv2423 So Moses spoke to the people of Israel, and they brought out of the camp the one who had cursed and stoned him with stones. Thus the people of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.  
Lv2501 The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,  
Lv2502 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the LORD.  
Lv2503 For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits,  
Lv2504 but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.  
Lv2505 You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.  
Lv2506 The Sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired worker and the sojourner who lives with you,  
Lv2507 and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: all its yield shall be for food.  
Lv2508 “You shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall give you forty-nine years.  
Lv2509 Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.  
Lv2510 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan.  
Lv2511 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines.  
Lv2512 For it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you. You may eat the produce of the field.  
Lv2513 “In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property.  
Lv2514 And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.  
Lv2515 You shall pay your neighbor according to the number of years after the jubilee, and he shall sell to you according to the number of years for crops.  
Lv2516 If the years are many, you shall increase the price, and if the years are few, you shall reduce the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you.  
Lv2517 You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the LORD your God.  
Lv2518 “Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely.  
Lv2519 The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and dwell in it securely.  
Lv2520 And if you say, ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?’  
Lv2521 I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.  
Lv2522 When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of the old crop; you shall eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives.  
Lv2523 “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.  
Lv2524 And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land.  
Lv2525 “If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.  
Lv2526 If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,  
Lv2527 let him calculate the years since he sold it and pay back the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and then return to his property.  
Lv2528 But if he does not have sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.  
Lv2529 “If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, he may redeem it within a year of its sale. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.  
Lv2530 If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong in perpetuity to the buyer, throughout his generations; it shall not be released in the jubilee.  
Lv2531 But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them shall be classified with the fields of the land. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the jubilee.  
Lv2532 As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess.  
Lv2533 And if one of the Levites exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city they possess shall be released in the jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.  
Lv2534 But the fields of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.  
Lv2535 “If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.  
Lv2536 Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.  
Lv2537 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.  
Lv2538 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.  
Lv2539 “If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:  
Lv2540 he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee.  
Lv2541 Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers.  
Lv2542 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.  
Lv2543 You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.  
Lv2544 As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.  
Lv2545 You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property.  
Lv2546 You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.  
Lv2547 “If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the stranger’s clan,  
Lv2548 then after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him,  
Lv2549 or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or a close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he grows rich he may redeem himself.  
Lv2550 He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired worker.  
Lv2551 If there are still many years left, he shall pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price.  
Lv2552 If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service.  
Lv2553 He shall treat him as a worker hired year by year. He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight.  
Lv2554 And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he and his children with him shall be released in the year of jubilee.  
Lv2555 For it is to me that the people of Israel are servants. They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.  
Lv2601 “You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.  
Lv2602 You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.  
Lv2603 “If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them,  
Lv2604 then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.  
Lv2605 Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely.  
Lv2606 I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land.  
Lv2607 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.  
Lv2608 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.  
Lv2609 I will turn to you and make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you.  
Lv2610 You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.  
Lv2611 I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you.  
Lv2612 And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.  
Lv2613 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.  
Lv2614 “But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments,  
Lv2615 if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,  
Lv2616 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.  
Lv2617 I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down before your enemies. Those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.  
Lv2618 And if in spite of this you will not listen to me, then I will discipline you again sevenfold for your sins,  
Lv2619 and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.  
Lv2620 And your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.  
Lv2621 “Then if you walk contrary to me and will not listen to me, I will continue striking you, sevenfold for your sins.  
Lv2622 And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that your roads shall be deserted.  
Lv2623 “And if by this discipline you are not turned to me but walk contrary to me,  
Lv2624 then I also will walk contrary to you, and I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.  
Lv2625 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather within your cities, I will send pestilence among you, and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.  
Lv2626 When I break your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.  
Lv2627 “But if in spite of this you will not listen to me, but walk contrary to me,  
Lv2628 then I will walk contrary to you in fury, and I myself will discipline you sevenfold for your sins.  
Lv2629 You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.  
Lv2630 And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.  
Lv2631 And I will lay your cities waste and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing aromas.  
Lv2632 And I myself will devastate the land, so that your enemies who settle in it shall be appalled at it.  
Lv2633 And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will unsheathe the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.  
Lv2634 “Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate, while you are in your enemies’ land; then the land shall rest, and enjoy its Sabbaths.  
Lv2635 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest that it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were dwelling in it.  
Lv2636 And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.  
Lv2637 They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.  
Lv2638 And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.  
Lv2639 And those of you who are left shall rot away in your enemies’ lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.  
Lv2640 “But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me,  
Lv2641 so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,  
Lv2642 then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.  
Lv2643 But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes.  
Lv2644 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God.  
Lv2645 But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.”  
Lv2646 These are the statutes and rules and laws that the LORD made between himself and the people of Israel through Moses on Mount Sinai.  
Lv2701 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Lv2702 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the valuation of persons,  
Lv2703 then the valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.  
Lv2704 If the person is a female, the valuation shall be thirty shekels.  
Lv2705 If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, the valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.  
Lv2706 If the person is from a month old up to five years old, the valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female the valuation shall be three shekels of silver.  
Lv2707 And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.  
Lv2708 And if someone is too poor to pay the valuation, then he shall be made to stand before the priest, and the priest shall value him; the priest shall value him according to what the vower can afford.  
Lv2709 “If the vow is an animal that may be offered as an offering to the LORD, all of it that he gives to the LORD is holy.  
Lv2710 He shall not exchange it or make a substitute for it, good for bad, or bad for good; and if he does in fact substitute one animal for another, then both it and the substitute shall be holy.  
Lv2711 And if it is any unclean animal that may not be offered as an offering to the LORD, then he shall stand the animal before the priest,  
Lv2712 and the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall be.  
Lv2713 But if he wishes to redeem it, he shall add a fifth to the valuation.  
Lv2714 “When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the LORD, the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.  
Lv2715 And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.  
Lv2716 “If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.  
Lv2717 If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation shall stand,  
Lv2718 but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation.  
Lv2719 And if he who dedicates the field wishes to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth to its valuation price, and it shall remain his.  
Lv2720 But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore.  
Lv2721 But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the LORD, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it.  
Lv2722 If he dedicates to the LORD a field that he has bought, which is not a part of his possession,  
Lv2723 then the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the LORD.  
Lv2724 In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession.  
Lv2725 Every valuation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall make a shekel.  
Lv2726 “But a firstborn of animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the LORD, no man may dedicate; whether ox or sheep, it is the LORD’s.  
Lv2727 And if it is an unclean animal, then he shall buy it back at the valuation, and add a fifth to it; or, if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold at the valuation.  
Lv2728 “But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the LORD, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the LORD.  
Lv2729 No one devoted, who is to be devoted for destruction from mankind, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.  
Lv2730 “Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the LORD’s; it is holy to the LORD.  
Lv2731 If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it.  
Lv2732 And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman’s staff, shall be holy to the LORD.  
Lv2733 One shall not differentiate between good or bad, neither shall he make a substitute for it; and if he does substitute for it, then both it and the substitute shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.”  
Lv2734 These are the commandments that the LORD commanded Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.  
Nu0101 The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,  
Nu0102 “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head.  
Nu0103 From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company.  
Nu0104 And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers.  
Nu0105 And these are the names of the men who shall assist you. From Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur;  
Nu0106 from Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;  
Nu0107 from Judah, Nahshon the son of Amminadab;  
Nu0108 from Issachar, Nethanel the son of Zuar;  
Nu0109 from Zebulun, Eliab the son of Helon;  
Nu0110 from the sons of Joseph, from Ephraim, Elishama the son of Ammihud, and from Manasseh, Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;  
Nu0111 from Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni;  
Nu0112 from Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai;  
Nu0113 from Asher, Pagiel the son of Ochran;  
Nu0114 from Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;  
Nu0115 from Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan.”  
Nu0116 These were the ones chosen from the congregation, the chiefs of their ancestral tribes, the heads of the clans of Israel.  
Nu0117 Moses and Aaron took these men who had been named,  
Nu0118 and on the first day of the second month, they assembled the whole congregation together, who registered themselves by clans, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names from twenty years old and upward, head by head,  
Nu0119 as the LORD commanded Moses. So he listed them in the wilderness of Sinai.  
Nu0120 The people of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:  
Nu0121 those listed of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.  
Nu0122 Of the people of Simeon, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, those of them who were listed, according to the number of names, head by head, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:  
Nu0123 those listed of the tribe of Simeon were 59,300.  
Nu0124 Of the people of Gad, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go to war:  
Nu0125 those listed of the tribe of Gad were 45,650.  
Nu0126 Of the people of Judah, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:  
Nu0127 those listed of the tribe of Judah were 74,600.  
Nu0128 Of the people of Issachar, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:  
Nu0129 those listed of the tribe of Issachar were 54,400.  
Nu0130 Of the people of Zebulun, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:  
Nu0131 those listed of the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400.  
Nu0132 Of the people of Joseph, namely, of the people of Ephraim, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:  
Nu0133 those listed of the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.  
Nu0134 Of the people of Manasseh, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:  
Nu0135 those listed of the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.  
Nu0136 Of the people of Benjamin, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:  
Nu0137 those listed of the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.  
Nu0138 Of the people of Dan, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:  
Nu0139 those listed of the tribe of Dan were 62,700.  
Nu0140 Of the people of Asher, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:  
Nu0141 those listed of the tribe of Asher were 41,500.  
Nu0142 Of the people of Naphtali, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war:  
Nu0143 those listed of the tribe of Naphtali were 53,400.  
Nu0144 These are those who were listed, whom Moses and Aaron listed with the help of the chiefs of Israel, twelve men, each representing his fathers’ house.  
Nu0145 So all those listed of the people of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war in Israel—  
Nu0146 all those listed were 603,550.  
Nu0147 But the Levites were not listed along with them by their ancestral tribe.  
Nu0148 For the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu0149 “Only the tribe of Levi you shall not list, and you shall not take a census of them among the people of Israel.  
Nu0150 But appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They are to carry the tabernacle and all its furnishings, and they shall take care of it and shall camp around the tabernacle.  
Nu0151 When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And if any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death.  
Nu0152 The people of Israel shall pitch their tents by their companies, each man in his own camp and each man by his own standard.  
Nu0153 But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the people of Israel. And the Levites shall keep guard over the tabernacle of the testimony.”  
Nu0154 Thus did the people of Israel; they did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.  
Nu0201 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,  
Nu0202 “The people of Israel shall camp each by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses. They shall camp facing the tent of meeting on every side.  
Nu0203 Those to camp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah by their companies, the chief of the people of Judah being Nahshon the son of Amminadab,  
Nu0204 his company as listed being 74,600.  
Nu0205 Those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar, the chief of the people of Issachar being Nethanel the son of Zuar,  
Nu0206 his company as listed being 54,400.  
Nu0207 Then the tribe of Zebulun, the chief of the people of Zebulun being Eliab the son of Helon,  
Nu0208 his company as listed being 57,400.  
Nu0209 All those listed of the camp of Judah, by their companies, were 186,400. They shall set out first on the march.  
Nu0210 “On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben by their companies, the chief of the people of Reuben being Elizur the son of Shedeur,  
Nu0211 his company as listed being 46,500.  
Nu0212 And those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon, the chief of the people of Simeon being Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai,  
Nu0213 his company as listed being 59,300.  
Nu0214 Then the tribe of Gad, the chief of the people of Gad being Eliasaph the son of Reuel,  
Nu0215 his company as listed being 45,650.  
Nu0216 All those listed of the camp of Reuben, by their companies, were 151,450. They shall set out second.  
Nu0217 “Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they camp, so shall they set out, each in position, standard by standard.  
Nu0218 “On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim by their companies, the chief of the people of Ephraim being Elishama the son of Ammihud,  
Nu0219 his company as listed being 40,500.  
Nu0220 And next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh, the chief of the people of Manasseh being Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur,  
Nu0221 his company as listed being 32,200.  
Nu0222 Then the tribe of Benjamin, the chief of the people of Benjamin being Abidan the son of Gideoni,  
Nu0223 his company as listed being 35,400.  
Nu0224 All those listed of the camp of Ephraim, by their companies, were 108,100. They shall set out third on the march.  
Nu0225 “On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan by their companies, the chief of the people of Dan being Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai,  
Nu0226 his company as listed being 62,700.  
Nu0227 And those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher, the chief of the people of Asher being Pagiel the son of Ochran,  
Nu0228 his company as listed being 41,500.  
Nu0229 Then the tribe of Naphtali, the chief of the people of Naphtali being Ahira the son of Enan,  
Nu0230 his company as listed being 53,400.  
Nu0231 All those listed of the camp of Dan were 157,600. They shall set out last, standard by standard.”  
Nu0232 These are the people of Israel as listed by their fathers’ houses. All those listed in the camps by their companies were 603,550.  
Nu0233 But the Levites were not listed among the people of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.  
Nu0234 Thus did the people of Israel. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so they camped by their standards, and so they set out, each one in his clan, according to his fathers’ house.  
Nu0301 These are the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.  
Nu0302 These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.  
Nu0303 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests.  
Nu0304 But Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the lifetime of Aaron their father.  
Nu0305 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu0306 “Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.  
Nu0307 They shall keep guard over him and over the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, as they minister at the tabernacle.  
Nu0308 They shall guard all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, and keep guard over the people of Israel as they minister at the tabernacle.  
Nu0309 And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the people of Israel.  
Nu0310 And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall guard their priesthood. But if any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death.”  
Nu0311 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu0312 “Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the people of Israel. The Levites shall be mine,  
Nu0313 for all the firstborn are mine. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for my own all the firstborn in Israel, both of man and of beast. They shall be mine: I am the LORD.”  
Nu0314 And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,  
Nu0315 “List the sons of Levi, by fathers’ houses and by clans; every male from a month old and upward you shall list.”  
Nu0316 So Moses listed them according to the word of the LORD, as he was commanded.  
Nu0317 And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.  
Nu0318 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their clans: Libni and Shimei.  
Nu0319 And the sons of Kohath by their clans: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.  
Nu0320 And the sons of Merari by their clans: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites, by their fathers’ houses.  
Nu0321 To Gershon belonged the clan of the Libnites and the clan of the Shimeites; these were the clans of the Gershonites.  
Nu0322 Their listing according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was7,500.00  
Nu0323 The clans of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle on the west,  
Nu0324 with Eliasaph, the son of Lael as chief of the fathers’ house of the Gershonites.  
Nu0325 And the guard duty of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting involved the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the screen for the entrance of the tent of meeting,  
Nu0326 the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords—all the service connected with these.  
Nu0327 To Kohath belonged the clan of the Amramites and the clan of the Izharites and the clan of the Hebronites and the clan of the Uzzielites; these are the clans of the Kohathites.  
Nu0328 According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were 8,600, keeping guard over the sanctuary.  
Nu0329 The clans of the sons of Kohath were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle,  
Nu0330 with Elizaphan the son of Uzziel as chief of the fathers’ house of the clans of the Kohathites.  
Nu0331 And their guard duty involved the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which the priests minister, and the screen; all the service connected with these.  
Nu0332 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was to be chief over the chiefs of the Levites, and to have oversight of those who kept guard over the sanctuary.  
Nu0333 To Merari belonged the clan of the Mahlites and the clan of the Mushites: these are the clans of Merari.  
Nu0334 Their listing according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was 6,200.  
Nu0335 And the chief of the fathers’ house of the clans of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail. They were to camp on the north side of the tabernacle.  
Nu0336 And the appointed guard duty of the sons of Merari involved the frames of the tabernacle, the bars, the pillars, the bases, and all their accessories; all the service connected with these;  
Nu0337 also the pillars around the court, with their bases and pegs and cords.  
Nu0338 Those who were to camp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, guarding the sanctuary itself, to protect the people of Israel. And any outsider who came near was to be put to death.  
Nu0339 All those listed among the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron listed at the commandment of the LORD, by clans, all the males from a month old and upward, were 22,000.  
Nu0340 And the LORD said to Moses, “List all the firstborn males of the people of Israel, from a month old and upward, taking the number of their names.  
Nu0341 And you shall take the Levites for me—I am the LORD—instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the cattle of the people of Israel.”  
Nu0342 So Moses listed all the firstborn among the people of Israel, as the LORD commanded him.  
Nu0343 And all the firstborn males, according to the number of names, from a month old and upward as listed were 22,273.  
Nu0344 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu0345 “Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle. The Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.  
Nu0346 And as the redemption price for the 273 of the firstborn of the people of Israel, over and above the number of the male Levites,  
Nu0347 you shall take five shekels per head; you shall take them according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel of twenty gerahs),  
Nu0348 and give the money to Aaron and his sons as the redemption price for those who are over.”  
Nu0349 So Moses took the redemption money from those who were over and above those redeemed by the Levites.  
Nu0350 From the firstborn of the people of Israel he took the money, 1,365 shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary.  
Nu0351 And Moses gave the redemption money to Aaron and his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.  
Nu0401 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,  
Nu0402 “Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their clans and their fathers’ houses,  
Nu0403 from thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who can come on duty, to do the work in the tent of meeting.  
Nu0404 This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting: the most holy things.  
Nu0405 When the camp is to set out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the veil of the screen and cover the ark of the testimony with it.  
Nu0406 Then they shall put on it a covering of goatskin and spread on top of that a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles.  
Nu0407 And over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall spread a cloth of blue and put on it the plates, the dishes for incense, the bowls, and the flagons for the drink offering; the regular showbread also shall be on it.  
Nu0408 Then they shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet and cover the same with a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.  
Nu0409 And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the lampstand for the light, with its lamps, its tongs, its trays, and all the vessels for oil with which it is supplied.  
Nu0410 And they shall put it with all its utensils in a covering of goatskin and put it on the carrying frame.  
Nu0411 And over the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue and cover it with a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.  
Nu0412 And they shall take all the vessels of the service that are used in the sanctuary and put them in a cloth of blue and cover them with a covering of goatskin and put them on the carrying frame.  
Nu0413 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it.  
Nu0414 And they shall put on it all the utensils of the altar, which are used for the service there, the fire pans, the forks, the shovels, and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.  
Nu0415 And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, lest they die. These are the things of the tent of meeting that the sons of Kohath are to carry.  
Nu0416 “And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall have charge of the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the regular grain offering, and the anointing oil, with the oversight of the whole tabernacle and all that is in it, of the sanctuary and its vessels.”  
Nu0417 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,  
Nu0418 “Let not the tribe of the clans of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the Levites,  
Nu0419 but deal thus with them, that they may live and not die when they come near to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them each to his task and to his burden,  
Nu0420 but they shall not go in to look on the holy things even for a moment, lest they die.”  
Nu0421 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu0422 “Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses and by their clans.  
Nu0423 From thirty years old up to fifty years old, you shall list them, all who can come to do duty, to do service in the tent of meeting.  
Nu0424 This is the service of the clans of the Gershonites, in serving and bearing burdens:  
Nu0425 they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tent of meeting with its covering and the covering of goatskin that is on top of it and the screen for the entrance of the tent of meeting  
Nu0426 and the hangings of the court and the screen for the entrance of the gate of the court that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their cords and all the equipment for their service. And they shall do all that needs to be done with regard to them.  
Nu0427 All the service of the sons of the Gershonites shall be at the command of Aaron and his sons, in all that they are to carry and in all that they have to do. And you shall assign to their charge all that they are to carry.  
Nu0428 This is the service of the clans of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting, and their guard duty is to be under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.  
Nu0429 “As for the sons of Merari, you shall list them by their clans and their fathers’ houses.  
Nu0430 From thirty years old up to fifty years old, you shall list them, everyone who can come on duty, to do the service of the tent of meeting.  
Nu0431 And this is what they are charged to carry, as the whole of their service in the tent of meeting: the frames of the tabernacle, with its bars, pillars, and bases,  
Nu0432 and the pillars around the court with their bases, pegs, and cords, with all their equipment and all their accessories. And you shall list by name the objects that they are required to carry.  
Nu0433 This is the service of the clans of the sons of Merari, the whole of their service in the tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”  
Nu0434 And Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the congregation listed the sons of the Kohathites, by their clans and their fathers’ houses,  
Nu0435 from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come on duty, for service in the tent of meeting;  
Nu0436 and those listed by clans were 2,750.  
Nu0437 This was the list of the clans of the Kohathites, all who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron listed according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.  
Nu0438 Those listed of the sons of Gershon, by their clans and their fathers’ houses,  
Nu0439 from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come on duty for service in the tent of meeting—  
Nu0440 those listed by their clans and their fathers’ houses were 2,630.  
Nu0441 This was the list of the clans of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron listed according to the commandment of the LORD.  
Nu0442 Those listed of the clans of the sons of Merari, by their clans and their fathers’ houses,  
Nu0443 from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come on duty, for service in the tent of meeting—  
Nu0444 those listed by clans were 3,200.  
Nu0445 This was the list of the clans of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron listed according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.  
Nu0446 All those who were listed of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of Israel listed, by their clans and their fathers’ houses,  
Nu0447 from thirty years old up to fifty years old, everyone who could come to do the service of ministry and the service of bearing burdens in the tent of meeting,  
Nu0448 those listed were 8,580.  
Nu0449 According to the commandment of the LORD through Moses they were listed, each one with his task of serving or carrying. Thus they were listed by him, as the LORD commanded Moses.  
Nu0501 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu0502 “Command the people of Israel that they put out of the camp everyone who is leprous or has a discharge and everyone who is unclean through contact with the dead.  
Nu0503 You shall put out both male and female, putting them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.”  
Nu0504 And the people of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the LORD said to Moses, so the people of Israel did.  
Nu0505 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu0506 “Speak to the people of Israel, When a man or woman commits any of the sins that people commit by breaking faith with the LORD, and that person realizes his guilt,  
Nu0507 he shall confess his sin that he has committed. And he shall make full restitution for his wrong, adding a fifth to it and giving it to him to whom he did the wrong.  
Nu0508 But if the man has no next of kin to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for wrong shall go to the LORD for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him.  
Nu0509 And every contribution, all the holy donations of the people of Israel, which they bring to the priest, shall be his.  
Nu0510 Each one shall keep his holy donations: whatever anyone gives to the priest shall be his.”  
Nu0511 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu0512 “Speak to the people of Israel, If any man’s wife goes astray and breaks faith with him,  
Nu0513 if a man lies with her sexually, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, since she was not taken in the act,  
Nu0514 and if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife who has defiled herself, or if the spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife, though she has not defiled herself,  
Nu0515 then the man shall bring his wife to the priest and bring the offering required of her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He shall pour no oil on it and put no frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembrance, bringing iniquity to remembrance.  
Nu0516 “And the priest shall bring her near and set her before the LORD.  
Nu0517 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthenware vessel and take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.  
Nu0518 And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD and unbind the hair of the woman’s head and place in her hands the grain offering of remembrance, which is the grain offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.  
Nu0519 Then the priest shall make her take an oath, saying, ‘If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside to uncleanness while you were under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings the curse.  
Nu0520 But if you have gone astray, though you are under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself, and some man other than your husband has lain with you,  
Nu0521 then’ (let the priest make the woman take the oath of the curse, and say to the woman) ‘the LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh fall away and your body swell.  
Nu0522 May this water that brings the curse pass into your bowels and make your womb swell and your thigh fall away.’ And the woman shall say, ‘Amen, Amen.’  
Nu0523 “Then the priest shall write these curses in a book and wash them off into the water of bitterness.  
Nu0524 And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that brings the curse, and the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain.  
Nu0525 And the priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand and shall wave the grain offering before the LORD and bring it to the altar.  
Nu0526 And the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.  
Nu0527 And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her womb shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people.  
Nu0528 But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.  
Nu0529 “This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,  
Nu0530 or when the spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife. Then he shall set the woman before the LORD, and the priest shall carry out for her all this law.  
Nu0531 The man shall be free from iniquity, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”  
Nu0601 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu0602 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,  
Nu0603 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.  
Nu0604 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins.  
Nu0605 “All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the LORD, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.  
Nu0606 “All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not go near a dead body.  
Nu0607 Not even for his father or for his mother, for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean, because his separation to God is on his head.  
Nu0608 All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD.  
Nu0609 “And if any man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it.  
Nu0610 On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest to the entrance of the tent of meeting,  
Nu0611 and the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he shall consecrate his head that same day  
Nu0612 and separate himself to the LORD for the days of his separation and bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering. But the previous period shall be void, because his separation was defiled.  
Nu0613 “And this is the law for the Nazirite, when the time of his separation has been completed: he shall be brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting,  
Nu0614 and he shall bring his gift to the LORD, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish as a sin offering, and one ram without blemish as a peace offering,  
Nu0615 and a basket of unleavened bread, loaves of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and their grain offering and their drink offerings.  
Nu0616 And the priest shall bring them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering,  
Nu0617 and he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its grain offering and its drink offering.  
Nu0618 And the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of the peace offering.  
Nu0619 And the priest shall take the shoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, and one unleavened loaf out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the hair of his consecration,  
Nu0620 and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD. They are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed. And after that the Nazirite may drink wine.  
Nu0621 “This is the law of the Nazirite. But if he vows an offering to the LORD above his Nazirite vow, as he can afford, in exact accordance with the vow that he takes, then he shall do in addition to the law of the Nazirite.”  
Nu0622 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu0623 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the people of Israel: you shall say to them,  
Nu0624 The LORD bless you and keep you;  
Nu0625 the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;  
Nu0626 the LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.  
Nu0627 “So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.”  
Nu0701 On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils,  
Nu0702 the chiefs of Israel, heads of their fathers’ houses, who were the chiefs of the tribes, who were over those who were listed, approached  
Nu0703 and brought their offerings before the LORD, six wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for every two of the chiefs, and for each one an ox. They brought them before the tabernacle.  
Nu0704 Then the LORD said to Moses,  
Nu0705 “Accept these from them, that they may be used in the service of the tent of meeting, and give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service.”  
Nu0706 So Moses took the wagons and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.  
Nu0707 Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service.  
Nu0708 And four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.  
Nu0709 But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because they were charged with the service of the holy things that had to be carried on the shoulder.  
Nu0710 And the chiefs offered offerings for the dedication of the altar on the day it was anointed; and the chiefs offered their offering before the altar.  
Nu0711 And the LORD said to Moses, “They shall offer their offerings, one chief each day, for the dedication of the altar.”  
Nu0712 He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah.  
Nu0713 And his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;  
Nu0714 one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense;  
Nu0715 one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;  
Nu0716 one male goat for a sin offering;  
Nu0717 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.  
Nu0718 On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, the chief of Issachar, made an offering.  
Nu0719 He offered for his offering one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;  
Nu0720 one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense;  
Nu0721 one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;  
Nu0722 one male goat for a sin offering;  
Nu0723 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nethanel the son of Zuar.  
Nu0724 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, the chief of the people of Zebulun:  
Nu0725 his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;  
Nu0726 one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense;  
Nu0727 one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;  
Nu0728 one male goat for a sin offering;  
Nu0729 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.  
Nu0730 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, the chief of the people of Reuben:  
Nu0731 his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;  
Nu0732 one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense;  
Nu0733 one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;  
Nu0734 one male goat for a sin offering;  
Nu0735 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.  
Nu0736 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, the chief of the people of Simeon:  
Nu0737 his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;  
Nu0738 one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense;  
Nu0739 one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;  
Nu0740 one male goat for a sin offering;  
Nu0741 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.  
Nu0742 On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, the chief of the people of Gad:  
Nu0743 his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;  
Nu0744 one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense;  
Nu0745 one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;  
Nu0746 one male goat for a sin offering;  
Nu0747 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.  
Nu0748 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, the chief of the people of Ephraim:  
Nu0749 his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;  
Nu0750 one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense;  
Nu0751 one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;  
Nu0752 one male goat for a sin offering;  
Nu0753 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.  
Nu0754 On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, the chief of the people of Manasseh:  
Nu0755 his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;  
Nu0756 one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense;  
Nu0757 one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;  
Nu0758 one male goat for a sin offering;  
Nu0759 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.  
Nu0760 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, the chief of the people of Benjamin:  
Nu0761 his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;  
Nu0762 one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense;  
Nu0763 one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;  
Nu0764 one male goat for a sin offering;  
Nu0765 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Abidan the son of Gideoni.  
Nu0766 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, the chief of the people of Dan:  
Nu0767 his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;  
Nu0768 one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense;  
Nu0769 one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;  
Nu0770 one male goat for a sin offering;  
Nu0771 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.  
Nu0772 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, the chief of the people of Asher:  
Nu0773 his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;  
Nu0774 one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense;  
Nu0775 one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;  
Nu0776 one male goat for a sin offering;  
Nu0777 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran.  
Nu0778 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, the chief of the people of Naphtali:  
Nu0779 his offering was one silver plate whose weight was 130 shekels, one silver basin of 70 shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;  
Nu0780 one golden dish of 10 shekels, full of incense;  
Nu0781 one bull from the herd, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;  
Nu0782 one male goat for a sin offering;  
Nu0783 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Ahira the son of Enan.  
Nu0784 This was the dedication offering for the altar on the day when it was anointed, from the chiefs of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve golden dishes,  
Nu0785 each silver plate weighing 130 shekels and each basin 70, all the silver of the vessels 2,400 shekels according to the shekel of the sanctuary,  
Nu0786 the twelve golden dishes, full of incense, weighing 10 shekels apiece according to the shekel of the sanctuary, all the gold of the dishes being 120 shekels;  
Nu0787 all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve male lambs a year old, with their grain offering; and twelve male goats for a sin offering;  
Nu0788 and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.  
Nu0789 And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with the LORD, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and it spoke to him.  
Nu0801 Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu0802 “Speak to Aaron and say to him, When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.”  
Nu0803 And Aaron did so: he set up its lamps in front of the lampstand, as the LORD commanded Moses.  
Nu0804 And this was the workmanship of the lampstand, hammered work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was hammered work; according to the pattern that the LORD had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.  
Nu0805 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu0806 “Take the Levites from among the people of Israel and cleanse them.  
Nu0807 Thus you shall do to them to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of purification upon them, and let them go with a razor over all their body, and wash their clothes and cleanse themselves.  
Nu0808 Then let them take a bull from the herd and its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you shall take another bull from the herd for a sin offering.  
Nu0809 And you shall bring the Levites before the tent of meeting and assemble the whole congregation of the people of Israel.  
Nu0810 When you bring the Levites before the LORD, the people of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,  
Nu0811 and Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD as a wave offering from the people of Israel, that they may do the service of the LORD.  
Nu0812 Then the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and you shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the LORD to make atonement for the Levites.  
Nu0813 And you shall set the Levites before Aaron and his sons, and shall offer them as a wave offering to the LORD.  
Nu0814 “Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the people of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.  
Nu0815 And after that the Levites shall go in to serve at the tent of meeting, when you have cleansed them and offered them as a wave offering.  
Nu0816 For they are wholly given to me from among the people of Israel. Instead of all who open the womb, the firstborn of all the people of Israel, I have taken them for myself.  
Nu0817 For all the firstborn among the people of Israel are mine, both of man and of beast. On the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them for myself,  
Nu0818 and I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the people of Israel.  
Nu0819 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the people of Israel, to do the service for the people of Israel at the tent of meeting and to make atonement for the people of Israel, that there may be no plague among the people of Israel when the people of Israel come near the sanctuary.”  
Nu0820 Thus did Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the people of Israel to the Levites. According to all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, the people of Israel did to them.  
Nu0821 And the Levites purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes, and Aaron offered them as a wave offering before the LORD, and Aaron made atonement for them to cleanse them.  
Nu0822 And after that the Levites went in to do their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron and his sons; as the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.  
Nu0823 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu0824 “This applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall come to do duty in the service of the tent of meeting.  
Nu0825 And from the age of fifty years they shall withdraw from the duty of the service and serve no more.  
Nu0826 They minister to their brothers in the tent of meeting by keeping guard, but they shall do no service. Thus shall you do to the Levites in assigning their duties.”  
Nu0901 And the LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,  
Nu0902 “Let the people of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.  
Nu0903 On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it.”  
Nu0904 So Moses told the people of Israel that they should keep the Passover.  
Nu0905 And they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the people of Israel did.  
Nu0906 And there were certain men who were unclean through touching a dead body, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day, and they came before Moses and Aaron on that day.  
Nu0907 And those men said to him, “We are unclean through touching a dead body. Why are we kept from bringing the LORD’s offering at its appointed time among the people of Israel?”  
Nu0908 And Moses said to them, “Wait, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you.”  
Nu0909 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu0910 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, If any one of you or of your descendants is unclean through touching a dead body, or is on a long journey, he shall still keep the Passover to the LORD.  
Nu0911 In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.  
Nu0912 They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break any of its bones; according to all the statute for the Passover they shall keep it.  
Nu0913 But if anyone who is clean and is not on a journey fails to keep the Passover, that person shall be cut off from his people because he did not bring the LORD’s offering at its appointed time; that man shall bear his sin.  
Nu0914 And if a stranger sojourns among you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the sojourner and for the native.”  
Nu0915 On the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony. And at evening it was over the tabernacle like the appearance of fire until morning.  
Nu0916 So it was always: the cloud covered it by day and the appearance of fire by night.  
Nu0917 And whenever the cloud lifted from over the tent, after that the people of Israel set out, and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the people of Israel camped.  
Nu0918 At the command of the LORD the people of Israel set out, and at the command of the LORD they camped. As long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.  
Nu0919 Even when the cloud continued over the tabernacle many days, the people of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and did not set out.  
Nu0920 Sometimes the cloud was a few days over the tabernacle, and according to the command of the LORD they remained in camp; then according to the command of the LORD they set out.  
Nu0921 And sometimes the cloud remained from evening until morning. And when the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud lifted they set out.  
Nu0922 Whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, abiding there, the people of Israel remained in camp and did not set out, but when it lifted they set out.  
Nu0923 At the command of the LORD they camped, and at the command of the LORD they set out. They kept the charge of the LORD, at the command of the LORD by Moses.  
Nu1001 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu1002 “Make two silver trumpets. Of hammered work you shall make them, and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for breaking camp.  
Nu1003 And when both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tent of meeting.  
Nu1004 But if they blow only one, then the chiefs, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.  
Nu1005 When you blow an alarm, the camps that are on the east side shall set out.  
Nu1006 And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are on the south side shall set out. An alarm is to be blown whenever they are to set out.  
Nu1007 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow a long blast, but you shall not sound an alarm.  
Nu1008 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. The trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations.  
Nu1009 And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.  
Nu1010 On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They shall be a reminder of you before your God: I am the LORD your God.”  
Nu1011 In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony,  
Nu1012 and the people of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai. And the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.  
Nu1013 They set out for the first time at the command of the LORD by Moses.  
Nu1014 The standard of the camp of the people of Judah set out first by their companies, and over their company was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.  
Nu1015 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Issachar was Nethanel the son of Zuar.  
Nu1016 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.  
Nu1017 And when the tabernacle was taken down, the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who carried the tabernacle, set out.  
Nu1018 And the standard of the camp of Reuben set out by their companies, and over their company was Elizur the son of Shedeur.  
Nu1019 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.  
Nu1020 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.  
Nu1021 Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy things, and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.  
Nu1022 And the standard of the camp of the people of Ephraim set out by their companies, and over their company was Elishama the son of Ammihud.  
Nu1023 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.  
Nu1024 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.  
Nu1025 Then the standard of the camp of the people of Dan, acting as the rear guard of all the camps, set out by their companies, and over their company was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.  
Nu1026 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ochran.  
Nu1027 And over the company of the tribe of the people of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.  
Nu1028 This was the order of march of the people of Israel by their companies, when they set out.  
Nu1029 And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will do good to you, for the LORD has promised good to Israel.”  
Nu1030 But he said to him, “I will not go. I will depart to my own land and to my kindred.”  
Nu1031 And he said, “Please do not leave us, for you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us.  
Nu1032 And if you do go with us, whatever good the LORD will do to us, the same will we do to you.”  
Nu1033 So they set out from the mount of the LORD three days’ journey. And the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them.  
Nu1034 And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, whenever they set out from the camp.  
Nu1035 And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, “Arise, O LORD, and let your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate you flee before you.”  
Nu1036 And when it rested, he said, “Return, O LORD, to the ten thousand thousands of Israel.”  
Nu1101 And the people complained in the hearing of the LORD about their misfortunes, and when the LORD heard it, his anger was kindled, and the fire of the LORD burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.  
Nu1102 Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the LORD, and the fire died down.  
Nu1103 So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burned among them.  
Nu1104 Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat!  
Nu1105 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.  
Nu1106 But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.”  
Nu1107 Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium.  
Nu1108 The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.  
Nu1109 When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.  
Nu1110 Moses heard the people weeping throughout their clans, everyone at the door of his tent. And the anger of the LORD blazed hotly, and Moses was displeased.  
Nu1111 Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you dealt ill with your servant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?  
Nu1112 Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land that you swore to give their fathers?  
Nu1113 Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me and say, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’  
Nu1114 I am not able to carry all this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me.  
Nu1115 If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”  
Nu1116 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.  
Nu1117 And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you may not bear it yourself alone.  
Nu1118 And say to the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat.  
Nu1119 You shall not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days,  
Nu1120 but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the LORD who is among you and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”  
Nu1121 But Moses said, “The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot, and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!’  
Nu1122 Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, and be enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and be enough for them?”  
Nu1123 And the LORD said to Moses, “Is the LORD’s hand shortened? Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not.”  
Nu1124 So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. And he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tent.  
Nu1125 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied. But they did not continue doing it.  
Nu1126 Now two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the Spirit rested on them. They were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp.  
Nu1127 And a young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”  
Nu1128 And Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth, said, “My lord Moses, stop them.”  
Nu1129 But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD’s people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!”  
Nu1130 And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.  
Nu1131 Then a wind from the LORD sprang up, and it brought quail from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the ground.  
Nu1132 And the people rose all that day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail. Those who gathered least gathered ten homers. And they spread them out for themselves all around the camp.  
Nu1133 While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck down the people with a very great plague.  
Nu1134 Therefore the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving.  
Nu1135 From Kibroth-hattaavah the people journeyed to Hazeroth, and they remained at Hazeroth.  
Nu1201 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.  
Nu1202 And they said, “Has the LORD indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?” And the LORD heard it.  
Nu1203 Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth.  
Nu1204 And suddenly the LORD said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tent of meeting.” And the three of them came out.  
Nu1205 And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent and called Aaron and Miriam, and they both came forward.  
Nu1206 And he said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.  
Nu1207 Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house.  
Nu1208 With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”  
Nu1209 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them, and he departed.  
Nu1210 When the cloud removed from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, like snow. And Aaron turned toward Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.  
Nu1211 And Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord, do not punish us because we have done foolishly and have sinned.  
Nu1212 Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”  
Nu1213 And Moses cried to the LORD, “O God, please heal her—please.”  
Nu1214 But the LORD said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be brought in again.”  
Nu1215 So Miriam was shut outside the camp seven days, and the people did not set out on the march till Miriam was brought in again.  
Nu1216 After that the people set out from Hazeroth, and camped in the wilderness of Paran.  
Nu1301 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu1302 “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.”  
Nu1303 So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel.  
Nu1304 And these were their names: From the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur;  
Nu1305 from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori;  
Nu1306 from the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh;  
Nu1307 from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;  
Nu1308 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;  
Nu1309 from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;  
Nu1310 from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;  
Nu1311 from the tribe of Joseph (that is, from the tribe of Manasseh), Gaddi the son of Susi;  
Nu1312 from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli;  
Nu1313 from the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael;  
Nu1314       from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;     
Nu1315 from the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.  
Nu1316 These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.  
Nu1317 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, “Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country,  
Nu1318 and see what the land is, and whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many,  
Nu1319 and whether the land that they dwell in is good or bad, and whether the cities that they dwell in are camps or strongholds,  
Nu1320 and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.  
Nu1321 So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near Lebo-hamath.  
Nu1322 They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)  
Nu1323 And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs.  
Nu1324 That place was called the Valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there.  
Nu1325 At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.  
Nu1326 And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.  
Nu1327 And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.  
Nu1328 However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there.  
Nu1329 The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.”  
Nu1330 But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.”  
Nu1331 Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.”  
Nu1332 So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height.  
Nu1333 And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”  
Nu1401 Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night.  
Nu1402 And all the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!  
Nu1403 Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become a prey. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”  
Nu1404 And they said to one another, “Let us choose a leader and go back to Egypt.”  
Nu1405 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the people of Israel.  
Nu1406 And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes  
Nu1407 and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.  
Nu1408 If the LORD delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey.  
Nu1409 Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their protection is removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them.”  
Nu1410 Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel.  
Nu1411 And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?  
Nu1412 I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”  
Nu1413 But Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them,  
Nu1414 and they will tell the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, O LORD, are in the midst of this people. For you, O LORD, are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.  
Nu1415 Now if you kill this people as one man, then the nations who have heard your fame will say,  
Nu1416 ‘It is because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.’  
Nu1417 And now, please let the power of the Lord be great as you have promised, saying,  
Nu1418 ‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’  
Nu1419 Please pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now.”  
Nu1420 Then the LORD said, “I have pardoned, according to your word.  
Nu1421 But truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD,  
Nu1422 none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice,  
Nu1423 shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.  
Nu1424 But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.  
Nu1425 Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”  
Nu1426 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,  
Nu1427 “How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me.  
Nu1428 Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the LORD, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:  
Nu1429 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,  
Nu1430 not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.  
Nu1431 But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.  
Nu1432 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.  
Nu1433 And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.  
Nu1434 According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’  
Nu1435 I, the LORD, have spoken. Surely this will I do to all this wicked congregation who are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to a full end, and there they shall die.”  
Nu1436 And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing up a bad report about the land—  
Nu1437 the men who brought up a bad report of the land—died by plague before the LORD.  
Nu1438 Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive.  
Nu1439 When Moses told these words to all the people of Israel, the people mourned greatly.  
Nu1440 And they rose early in the morning and went up to the heights of the hill country, saying, “Here we are. We will go up to the place that the LORD has promised, for we have sinned.”  
Nu1441 But Moses said, “Why now are you transgressing the command of the LORD, when that will not succeed?  
Nu1442 Do not go up, for the LORD is not among you, lest you be struck down before your enemies.  
Nu1443 For there the Amalekites and the Canaanites are facing you, and you shall fall by the sword. Because you have turned back from following the LORD, the LORD will not be with you.”  
Nu1444 But they presumed to go up to the heights of the hill country, although neither the ark of the covenant of the LORD nor Moses departed out of the camp.  
Nu1445 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and defeated them and pursued them, even to Hormah.  
Nu1501 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu1502 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you,  
Nu1503 and you offer to the LORD from the herd or from the flock a food offering or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing aroma to the LORD,  
Nu1504 then he who brings his offering shall offer to the LORD a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil;  
Nu1505 and you shall offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, a quarter of a hin of wine for the drink offering for each lamb.  
Nu1506 Or for a ram, you shall offer for a grain offering two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of oil.  
Nu1507 And for the drink offering you shall offer a third of a hin of wine, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.  
Nu1508 And when you offer a bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or for peace offerings to the LORD,  
Nu1509 then one shall offer with the bull a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with half a hin of oil.  
Nu1510 And you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.  
Nu1511 “Thus it shall be done for each bull or ram, or for each lamb or young goat.  
Nu1512 As many as you offer, so shall you do with each one, as many as there are.  
Nu1513 Every native Israelite shall do these things in this way, in offering a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.  
Nu1514 And if a stranger is sojourning with you, or anyone is living permanently among you, and he wishes to offer a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he shall do as you do.  
Nu1515 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner shall be alike before the LORD.  
Nu1516 One law and one rule shall be for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you.”  
Nu1517 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu1518 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land to which I bring you  
Nu1519 and when you eat of the bread of the land, you shall present a contribution to the LORD.  
Nu1520 Of the first of your dough you shall present a loaf as a contribution; like a contribution from the threshing floor, so shall you present it.  
Nu1521 Some of the first of your dough you shall give to the LORD as a contribution throughout your generations.  
Nu1522 “But if you sin unintentionally, and do not observe all these commandments that the LORD has spoken to Moses,  
Nu1523 all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations,  
Nu1524 then if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, all the congregation shall offer one bull from the herd for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and its drink offering, according to the rule, and one male goat for a sin offering.  
Nu1525 And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven, because it was a mistake, and they have brought their offering, a food offering to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD for their mistake.  
Nu1526 And all the congregation of the people of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the mistake.  
Nu1527 “If one person sins unintentionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.  
Nu1528 And the priest shall make atonement before the LORD for the person who makes a mistake, when he sins unintentionally, to make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.  
Nu1529 You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the people of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them.  
Nu1530 But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.  
Nu1531 Because he has despised the word of the LORD and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.”  
Nu1532 While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.  
Nu1533 And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation.  
Nu1534 They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him.  
Nu1535 And the LORD said to Moses, “The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”  
Nu1536 And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses.  
Nu1537 The LORD said to Moses,  
Nu1538 “Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner.  
Nu1539 And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after.  
Nu1540 So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.  
Nu1541 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD your God.”  
Nu1601 Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men.  
Nu1602 And they rose up before Moses, with a number of the people of Israel, 250 chiefs of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men.  
Nu1603 They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! For all in the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”  
Nu1604 When Moses heard it, he fell on his face,  
Nu1605 and he said to Korah and all his company, “In the morning the LORD will show who is his, and who is holy, and will bring him near to him. The one whom he chooses he will bring near to him.  
Nu1606 Do this: take censers, Korah and all his company;  
Nu1607 put fire in them and put incense on them before the LORD tomorrow, and the man whom the LORD chooses shall be the holy one. You have gone too far, sons of Levi!”  
Nu1608 And Moses said to Korah, “Hear now, you sons of Levi:  
Nu1609 is it too small a thing for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do service in the tabernacle of the LORD and to stand before the congregation to minister to them,  
Nu1610 and that he has brought you near him, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? And would you seek the priesthood also?  
Nu1611 Therefore it is against the LORD that you and all your company have gathered together. What is Aaron that you grumble against him?”  
Nu1612 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and they said, “We will not come up.  
Nu1613 Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us?  
Nu1614 Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.”  
Nu1615 And Moses was very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, and I have not harmed one of them.”  
Nu1616 And Moses said to Korah, “Be present, you and all your company, before the LORD, you and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.  
Nu1617 And let every one of you take his censer and put incense on it, and every one of you bring before the LORD his censer, 250 censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer.”  
Nu1618 So every man took his censer and put fire in them and laid incense on them and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.  
Nu1619 Then Korah assembled all the congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the LORD appeared to all the congregation.  
Nu1620 And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,  
Nu1621 “Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.”  
Nu1622 And they fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”  
Nu1623 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu1624 “Say to the congregation, Get away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”  
Nu1625 Then Moses rose and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.  
Nu1626 And he spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be swept away with all their sins.”  
Nu1627 So they got away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the door of their tents, together with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.  
Nu1628 And Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, and that it has not been of my own accord.  
Nu1629 If these men die as all men die, or if they are visited by the fate of all mankind, then the LORD has not sent me.  
Nu1630 But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD.”  
Nu1631 And as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart.  
Nu1632 And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods.  
Nu1633 So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.  
Nu1634 And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”  
Nu1635 And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men offering the incense.  
Nu1636 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu1637 “Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers out of the blaze. Then scatter the fire far and wide, for they have become holy.  
Nu1638 As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the LORD, and they became holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel.”  
Nu1639 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar,  
Nu1640 to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his company—as the LORD said to him through Moses.  
Nu1641 But on the next day all the congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the LORD.”  
Nu1642 And when the congregation had assembled against Moses and against Aaron, they turned toward the tent of meeting. And behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of the LORD appeared.  
Nu1643 And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting,  
Nu1644 and the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu1645 “Get away from the midst of this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.” And they fell on their faces.  
Nu1646 And Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”  
Nu1647 So Aaron took it as Moses said and ran into the midst of the assembly. And behold, the plague had already begun among the people. And he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.  
Nu1648 And he stood between the dead and the living, and the plague was stopped.  
Nu1649 Now those who died in the plague were 14,700, besides those who died in the affair of Korah.  
Nu1650 And Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance of the tent of meeting, when the plague was stopped.  
Nu1701 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu1702 “Speak to the people of Israel, and get from them staffs, one for each fathers’ house, from all their chiefs according to their fathers’ houses, twelve staffs. Write each man’s name on his staff,  
Nu1703 and write Aaron’s name on the staff of Levi. For there shall be one staff for the head of each fathers’ house.  
Nu1704 Then you shall deposit them in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.  
Nu1705 And the staff of the man whom I choose shall sprout. Thus I will make to cease from me the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against you.”  
Nu1706 Moses spoke to the people of Israel. And all their chiefs gave him staffs, one for each chief, according to their fathers’ houses, twelve staffs. And the staff of Aaron was among their staffs.  
Nu1707 And Moses deposited the staffs before the LORD in the tent of the testimony.  
Nu1708 On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold, the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.  
Nu1709 Then Moses brought out all the staffs from before the LORD to all the people of Israel. And they looked, and each man took his staff.  
Nu1710 And the LORD said to Moses, “Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept as a sign for the rebels, that you may make an end of their grumblings against me, lest they die.”  
Nu1711 Thus did Moses; as the LORD commanded him, so he did.  
Nu1712 And the people of Israel said to Moses, “Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.  
Nu1713 Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the LORD, shall die. Are we all to perish?”  
Nu1801 So the LORD said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your father’s house with you shall bear iniquity connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity connected with your priesthood.  
Nu1802 And with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.  
Nu1803 They shall keep guard over you and over the whole tent, but shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar lest they, and you, die.  
Nu1804 They shall join you and keep guard over the tent of meeting for all the service of the tent, and no outsider shall come near you.  
Nu1805 And you shall keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, that there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel.  
Nu1806 And behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the people of Israel. They are a gift to you, given to the LORD, to do the service of the tent of meeting.  
Nu1807 And you and your sons with you shall guard your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, and any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”  
Nu1808 Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, “Behold, I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.  
Nu1809 This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every offering of theirs, every grain offering of theirs and every sin offering of theirs and every guilt offering of theirs, which they render to me, shall be most holy to you and to your sons.  
Nu1810 In a most holy place shall you eat it. Every male may eat it; it is holy to you.  
Nu1811 This also is yours: the contribution of their gift, all the wave offerings of the people of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.  
Nu1812 All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the firstfruits of what they give to the LORD, I give to you.  
Nu1813 The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the LORD, shall be yours. Everyone who is clean in your house may eat it.  
Nu1814 Every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours.  
Nu1815 Everything that opens the womb of all flesh, whether man or beast, which they offer to the LORD, shall be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn of man you shall redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem.  
Nu1816 And their redemption price (at a month old you shall redeem them) you shall fix at five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.  
Nu1817 But the firstborn of a cow, or the firstborn of a sheep, or the firstborn of a goat, you shall not redeem; they are holy. You shall sprinkle their blood on the altar and shall burn their fat as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.  
Nu1818 But their flesh shall be yours, as the breast that is waved and as the right thigh are yours.  
Nu1819 All the holy contributions that the people of Israel present to the LORD I give to you, and to your sons and daughters with you, as a perpetual due. It is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD for you and for your offspring with you.”  
Nu1820 And the LORD said to Aaron, “You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither shall you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel.  
Nu1821 “To the Levites I have given every tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service that they do, their service in the tent of meeting,  
Nu1822 so that the people of Israel do not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin and die.  
Nu1823 But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, and among the people of Israel they shall have no inheritance.  
Nu1824 For the tithe of the people of Israel, which they present as a contribution to the LORD, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said of them that they shall have no inheritance among the people of Israel.”  
Nu1825 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu1826 “Moreover, you shall speak and say to the Levites, ‘When you take from the people of Israel the tithe that I have given you from them for your inheritance, then you shall present a contribution from it to the LORD, a tithe of the tithe.  
Nu1827 And your contribution shall be counted to you as though it were the grain of the threshing floor, and as the fullness of the winepress.  
Nu1828 So you shall also present a contribution to the LORD from all your tithes, which you receive from the people of Israel. And from it you shall give the LORD’s contribution to Aaron the priest.  
Nu1829 Out of all the gifts to you, you shall present every contribution due to the LORD; from each its best part is to be dedicated.’  
Nu1830 Therefore you shall say to them, ‘When you have offered from it the best of it, then the rest shall be counted to the Levites as produce of the threshing floor, and as produce of the winepress.  
Nu1831 And you may eat it in any place, you and your households, for it is your reward in return for your service in the tent of meeting.  
Nu1832 And you shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have contributed the best of it. But you shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, lest you die.’”  
Nu1901 Now the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,  
Nu1902 “This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has never come.  
Nu1903 And you shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and it shall be taken outside the camp and slaughtered before him.  
Nu1904 And Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.  
Nu1905 And the heifer shall be burned in his sight. Its skin, its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall be burned.  
Nu1906 And the priest shall take cedarwood and hyssop and scarlet yarn, and throw them into the fire burning the heifer.  
Nu1907 Then the priest shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may come into the camp. But the priest shall be unclean until evening.  
Nu1908 The one who burns the heifer shall wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water and shall be unclean until evening.  
Nu1909 And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place. And they shall be kept for the water for impurity for the congregation of the people of Israel; it is a sin offering.  
Nu1910 And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. And this shall be a perpetual statute for the people of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them.  
Nu1911 “Whoever touches the dead body of any person shall be unclean seven days.  
Nu1912 He shall cleanse himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day, and so be clean. But if he does not cleanse himself on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not become clean.  
Nu1913 Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.  
Nu1914 “This is the law when someone dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean seven days.  
Nu1915 And every open vessel that has no cover fastened on it is unclean.  
Nu1916 Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.  
Nu1917 For the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt sin offering, and fresh water shall be added in a vessel.  
Nu1918 Then a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave.  
Nu1919 And the clean person shall sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day. Thus on the seventh day he shall cleanse him, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and at evening he shall be clean.  
Nu1920 “If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the LORD. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean.  
Nu1921 And it shall be a statute forever for them. The one who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.  
Nu1922 And whatever the unclean person touches shall be unclean, and anyone who touches it shall be unclean until evening.”  
Nu2001 And the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. And Miriam died there and was buried there.  
Nu2002 Now there was no water for the congregation. And they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.  
Nu2003 And the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Would that we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD!  
Nu2004 Why have you brought the assembly of the LORD into this wilderness, that we should die here, both we and our cattle?  
Nu2005 And why have you made us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It is no place for grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink.”  
Nu2006 Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance of the tent of meeting and fell on their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them,  
Nu2007 and the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu2008 “Take the staff, and assemble the congregation, you and Aaron your brother, and tell the rock before their eyes to yield its water. So you shall bring water out of the rock for them and give drink to the congregation and their cattle.”  
Nu2009 And Moses took the staff from before the LORD, as he commanded him.  
Nu2010 Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels: shall we bring water for you out of this rock?”  
Nu2011 And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.  
Nu2012 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”  
Nu2013 These are the waters of Meribah, where the people of Israel quarreled with the LORD, and through them he showed himself holy.  
Nu2014 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: “Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the hardship that we have met:  
Nu2015 how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. And the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our fathers.  
Nu2016 And when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. And here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.  
Nu2017 Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard, or drink water from a well. We will go along the King’s Highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”  
Nu2018 But Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through, lest I come out with the sword against you.”  
Nu2019 And the people of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway, and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then I will pay for it. Let me only pass through on foot, nothing more.”  
Nu2020 But he said, “You shall not pass through.” And Edom came out against them with a large army and with a strong force.  
Nu2021 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel turned away from him.  
Nu2022 And they journeyed from Kadesh, and the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.  
Nu2023 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom,  
Nu2024 “Let Aaron be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land that I have given to the people of Israel, because you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.  
Nu2025 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son and bring them up to Mount Hor.  
Nu2026 And strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron shall be gathered to his people and shall die there.”  
Nu2027 Moses did as the LORD commanded. And they went up Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.  
Nu2028 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.  
Nu2029 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron had perished, all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days.  
Nu2101 When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.  
Nu2102 And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD and said, “If you will indeed give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction.”  
Nu2103 And the LORD heeded the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, and they devoted them and their cities to destruction. So the name of the place was called Hormah.  
Nu2104 From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way.  
Nu2105 And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.”  
Nu2106 Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.  
Nu2107 And the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.  
Nu2108 And the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”  
Nu2109 So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.  
Nu2110 And the people of Israel set out and camped in Oboth.  
Nu2111 And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness that is opposite Moab, toward the sunrise.  
Nu2112 From there they set out and camped in the Valley of Zered.  
Nu2113 From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorites, for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.  
Nu2114 Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD, “Waheb in Suphah, and the valleys of the Arnon,  
Nu2115 and the slope of the valleys that extends to the seat of Ar, and leans to the border of Moab.”  
Nu2116 And from there they continued to Beer; that is the well of which the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people together, so that I may give them water.”  
Nu2117 Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well!—Sing to it!—  
Nu2118 the well that the princes made, that the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter and with their staffs.” And from the wilderness they went on to Mattanah,  
Nu2119 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth,  
Nu2120 and from Bamoth to the valley lying in the region of Moab by the top of Pisgah that looks down on the desert.  
Nu2121 Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,  
Nu2122 “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or vineyard. We will not drink the water of a well. We will go by the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”  
Nu2123 But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. He gathered all his people together and went out against Israel to the wilderness and came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.  
Nu2124 And Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as to the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was strong.  
Nu2125 And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.  
Nu2126 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon.  
Nu2127 Therefore the ballad singers say, “Come to Heshbon, let it be built; let the city of Sihon be established.  
Nu2128 For fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the city of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, and swallowed the heights of the Arnon.  
Nu2129 Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters captives, to an Amorite king, Sihon.  
Nu2130 So we overthrew them; Heshbon, as far as Dibon, perished; and we laid waste as far as Nophah; fire spread as far as Medeba.”  
Nu2131 Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.  
Nu2132 And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.  
Nu2133 Then they turned and went up by the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.  
Nu2134 But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have given him into your hand, and all his people, and his land. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”  
Nu2135 So they defeated him and his sons and all his people, until he had no survivor left. And they possessed his land.  
Nu2201 Then the people of Israel set out and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.  
Nu2202 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.  
Nu2203 And Moab was in great dread of the people, because they were many. Moab was overcome with fear of the people of Israel.  
Nu2204 And Moab said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will now lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” So Balak the son of Zippor, who was king of Moab at that time,  
Nu2205 sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor at Pethor, which is near the River in the land of the people of Amaw, to call him, saying, “Behold, a people has come out of Egypt. They cover the face of the earth, and they are dwelling opposite me.  
Nu2206 Come now, curse this people for me, since they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them from the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”  
Nu2207 So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fees for divination in their hand. And they came to Balaam and gave him Balak’s message.  
Nu2208 And he said to them, “Lodge here tonight, and I will bring back word to you, as the LORD speaks to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.  
Nu2209 And God came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with you?”  
Nu2210 And Balaam said to God, “Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me, saying,  
Nu2211 ‘Behold, a people has come out of Egypt, and it covers the face of the earth. Now come, curse them for me. Perhaps I shall be able to fight against them and drive them out.’”  
Nu2212 God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”  
Nu2213 So Balaam rose in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your own land, for the LORD has refused to let me go with you.”  
Nu2214 So the princes of Moab rose and went to Balak and said, “Balaam refuses to come with us.”  
Nu2215 Once again Balak sent princes, more in number and more honorable than these.  
Nu2216 And they came to Balaam and said to him, “Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: ‘Let nothing hinder you from coming to me,  
Nu2217 for I will surely do you great honor, and whatever you say to me I will do. Come, curse this people for me.’”  
Nu2218 But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, “Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the LORD my God to do less or more.  
Nu2219 So you, too, please stay here tonight, that I may know what more the LORD will say to me.”  
Nu2220 And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise, go with them; but only do what I tell you.”  
Nu2221 So Balaam rose in the morning and saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Moab.  
Nu2222 But God’s anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the LORD took his stand in the way as his adversary. Now he was riding on the donkey, and his two servants were with him.  
Nu2223 And the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road, with a drawn sword in his hand. And the donkey turned aside out of the road and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey, to turn her into the road.  
Nu2224 Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, with a wall on either side.  
Nu2225 And when the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she pushed against the wall and pressed Balaam’s foot against the wall. So he struck her again.  
Nu2226 Then the angel of the LORD went ahead and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left.  
Nu2227 When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she lay down under Balaam. And Balaam’s anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.  
Nu2228 Then the LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”  
Nu2229 And Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have made a fool of me. I wish I had a sword in my hand, for then I would kill you.”  
Nu2230 And the donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Is it my habit to treat you this way?” And he said, “No.”  
Nu2231 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, with his drawn sword in his hand. And he bowed down and fell on his face.  
Nu2232 And the angel of the LORD said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you because your way is perverse before me.  
Nu2233 The donkey saw me and turned aside before me these three times. If she had not turned aside from me, surely just now I would have killed you and let her live.”  
Nu2234 Then Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood in the road against me. Now therefore, if it is evil in your sight, I will turn back.”  
Nu2235 And the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but speak only the word that I tell you.” So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak.  
Nu2236 When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab, on the border formed by the Arnon, at the extremity of the border.  
Nu2237 And Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?”  
Nu2238 Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you! Have I now any power of my own to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that must I speak.”  
Nu2239 Then Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.  
Nu2240 And Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent for Balaam and for the princes who were with him.  
Nu2241 And in the morning Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal, and from there he saw a fraction of the people.  
Nu2301 And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”  
Nu2302 Balak did as Balaam had said. And Balak and Balaam offered on each altar a bull and a ram.  
Nu2303 And Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go. Perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell you.” And he went to a bare height,  
Nu2304 and God met Balaam. And Balaam said to him, “I have arranged the seven altars and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”  
Nu2305 And the LORD put a word in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”  
Nu2306 And he returned to him, and behold, he and all the princes of Moab were standing beside his burnt offering.  
Nu2307 And Balaam took up his discourse and said, “From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: ‘Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, denounce Israel!’  
Nu2308 How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce whom the LORD has not denounced?  
Nu2309 For from the top of the crags I see him, from the hills I behold him; behold, a people dwelling alone, and not counting itself among the nations!  
Nu2310 Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!”  
Nu2311 And Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have done nothing but bless them.”  
Nu2312 And he answered and said, “Must I not take care to speak what the LORD puts in my mouth?”  
Nu2313 And Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, from which you may see them. You shall see only a fraction of them and shall not see them all. Then curse them for me from there.”  
Nu2314 And he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.  
Nu2315 Balaam said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD over there.”  
Nu2316 And the LORD met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.”  
Nu2317 And he came to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, “What has the LORD spoken?”  
Nu2318 And Balaam took up his discourse and said, “Rise, Balak, and hear; give ear to me, O son of Zippor:  
Nu2319 God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?  
Nu2320 Behold, I received a command to bless: he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.  
Nu2321 He has not beheld misfortune in Jacob, nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of a king is among them.  
Nu2322 God brings them out of Egypt and is for them like the horns of the wild ox.  
Nu2323 For there is no enchantment against Jacob, no divination against Israel; now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What has God wrought!’  
Nu2324 Behold, a people! As a lioness it rises up and as a lion it lifts itself; it does not lie down until it has devoured the prey and drunk the blood of the slain.”  
Nu2325 And Balak said to Balaam, “Do not curse them at all, and do not bless them at all.”  
Nu2326 But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘All that the LORD says, that I must do’?”  
Nu2327 And Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.”  
Nu2328 So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which overlooks the desert.  
Nu2329 And Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.”  
Nu2330 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.  
Nu2401 When Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his face toward the wilderness.  
Nu2402 And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping tribe by tribe. And the Spirit of God came upon him,  
Nu2403 and he took up his discourse and said, “The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,  
Nu2404 the oracle of him who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered:  
Nu2405 How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your encampments, O Israel!  
Nu2406 Like palm groves that stretch afar, like gardens beside a river, like aloes that the LORD has planted, like cedar trees beside the waters.  
Nu2407 Water shall flow from his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters; his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.  
Nu2408 God brings him out of Egypt and is for him like the horns of the wild ox; he shall eat up the nations, his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces and pierce them through with his arrows.  
Nu2409 He crouched, he lay down like a lion and like a lioness; who will rouse him up? Blessed are those who bless you, and cursed are those who curse you.”  
Nu2410 And Balak’s anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together. And Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them these three times.  
Nu2411 Therefore now flee to your own place. I said, ‘I will certainly honor you,’ but the LORD has held you back from honor.”  
Nu2412 And Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not tell your messengers whom you sent to me,  
Nu2413 ‘If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the LORD, to do either good or bad of my own will. What the LORD speaks, that will I speak’?  
Nu2414 And now, behold, I am going to my people. Come, I will let you know what this people will do to your people in the latter days.”  
Nu2415 And he took up his discourse and said, “The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,  
Nu2416 the oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered:  
Nu2417 I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: a star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel; it shall crush the forehead of Moab and break down all the sons of Sheth.  
Nu2418 Edom shall be dispossessed; Seir also, his enemies, shall be dispossessed. Israel is doing valiantly.  
Nu2419 And one from Jacob shall exercise dominion and destroy the survivors of cities!”  
Nu2420 Then he looked on Amalek and took up his discourse and said, “Amalek was the first among the nations, but its end is utter destruction.”  
Nu2421 And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his discourse and said, “Enduring is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the rock.  
Nu2422 Nevertheless, Kain shall be burned when Asshur takes you away captive.”  
Nu2423 And he took up his discourse and said, “Alas, who shall live when God does this?  
Nu2424 But ships shall come from Kittim and shall afflict Asshur and Eber; and he too shall come to utter destruction.”  
Nu2425 Then Balaam rose and went back to his place. And Balak also went his way.  
Nu2501 While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab.  
Nu2502 These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.  
Nu2503 So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.  
Nu2504 And the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them in the sun before the LORD, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.”  
Nu2505 And Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor.”  
Nu2506 And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting.  
Nu2507 When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand  
Nu2508 and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped.  
Nu2509 Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand.  
Nu2510 And the LORD said to Moses,  
Nu2511 “Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.  
Nu2512 Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace,  
Nu2513 and it shall be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.’”  
Nu2514 The name of the slain man of Israel, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, chief of a father’s house belonging to the Simeonites.  
Nu2515 And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was the tribal head of a father’s house in Midian.  
Nu2516 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu2517 “Harass the Midianites and strike them down,  
Nu2518 for they have harassed you with their wiles, with which they beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the chief of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague on account of Peor.”  
Nu2601 After the plague, the LORD said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest,  
Nu2602 “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all in Israel who are able to go to war.”  
Nu2603 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,  
Nu2604 “Take a census of the people, from twenty years old and upward,” as the LORD commanded Moses. The people of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt were:  
Nu2605 Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the clan of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the clan of the Palluites;  
Nu2606 of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the clan of the Carmites.  
Nu2607 These are the clans of the Reubenites, and those listed were 43,730.  
Nu2608 And the sons of Pallu: Eliab.  
Nu2609 The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram, chosen from the congregation, who contended against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they contended against the LORD  
Nu2610 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured 250 men, and they became a warning.  
Nu2611 But the sons of Korah did not die.  
Nu2612 The sons of Simeon according to their clans: of Nemuel, the clan of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the clan of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the clan of the Jachinites;  
Nu2613 of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the clan of the Shaulites.  
Nu2614 These are the clans of the Simeonites, 22,200.  
Nu2615 The sons of Gad according to their clans: of Zephon, the clan of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the clan of the Haggites; of Shuni, the clan of the Shunites;  
Nu2616 of Ozni, the clan of the Oznites; of Eri, the clan of the Erites;  
Nu2617 of Arod, the clan of the Arodites; of Areli, the clan of the Arelites.  
Nu2618 These are the clans of the sons of Gad as they were listed, 40,500.  
Nu2619 The sons of Judah were Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.  
Nu2620 And the sons of Judah according to their clans were: of Shelah, the clan of the Shelanites; of Perez, the clan of the Perezites; of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites.  
Nu2621 And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the clan of the Hamulites.  
Nu2622 These are the clans of Judah as they were listed, 76,500.  
Nu2623 The sons of Issachar according to their clans: of Tola, the clan of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the clan of the Punites;  
Nu2624 of Jashub, the clan of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the clan of the Shimronites.  
Nu2625 These are the clans of Issachar as they were listed, 64,300.  
Nu2626 The sons of Zebulun, according to their clans: of Sered, the clan of the Seredites; of Elon, the clan of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the clan of the Jahleelites.  
Nu2627 These are the clans of the Zebulunites as they were listed, 60,500.  
Nu2628 The sons of Joseph according to their clans: Manasseh and Ephraim.  
Nu2629 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the clan of the Machirites; and Machir was the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the clan of the Gileadites.  
Nu2630 These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the clan of the Iezerites; of Helek, the clan of the Helekites;  
Nu2631 and of Asriel, the clan of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the clan of the Shechemites;  
Nu2632 and of Shemida, the clan of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the clan of the Hepherites.  
Nu2633 Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters. And the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.  
Nu2634 These are the clans of Manasseh, and those listed were 52,700.  
Nu2635 These are the sons of Ephraim according to their clans: of Shuthelah, the clan of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the clan of the Becherites; of Tahan, the clan of the Tahanites.  
Nu2636 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the clan of the Eranites.  
Nu2637 These are the clans of the sons of Ephraim as they were listed, 32,500. These are the sons of Joseph according to their clans.  
Nu2638 The sons of Benjamin according to their clans: of Bela, the clan of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the clan of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the clan of the Ahiramites;  
Nu2639 of Shephupham, the clan of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the clan of the Huphamites.  
Nu2640 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the clan of the Ardites; of Naaman, the clan of the Naamites.  
Nu2641 These are the sons of Benjamin according to their clans, and those listed were 45,600.  
Nu2642 These are the sons of Dan according to their clans: of Shuham, the clan of the Shuhamites. These are the clans of Dan according to their clans.  
Nu2643 All the clans of the Shuhamites, as they were listed, were 64,400.  
Nu2644 The sons of Asher according to their clans: of Imnah, the clan of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the clan of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the clan of the Beriites.  
Nu2645 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the clan of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the clan of the Malchielites.  
Nu2646 And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.  
Nu2647 These are the clans of the sons of Asher as they were listed, 53,400.  
Nu2648 The sons of Naphtali according to their clans: of Jahzeel, the clan of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the clan of the Gunites;  
Nu2649 of Jezer, the clan of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the clan of the Shillemites.  
Nu2650 These are the clans of Naphtali according to their clans, and those listed were 45,400.  
Nu2651 This was the list of the people of Israel, 601,730.  
Nu2652 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu2653 “Among these the land shall be divided for inheritance according to the number of names.  
Nu2654 To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; every tribe shall be given its inheritance in proportion to its list.  
Nu2655 But the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.  
Nu2656 Their inheritance shall be divided according to lot between the larger and the smaller.”  
Nu2657 This was the list of the Levites according to their clans: of Gershon, the clan of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the clan of the Kohathites; of Merari, the clan of the Merarites.  
Nu2658 These are the clans of Levi: the clan of the Libnites, the clan of the Hebronites, the clan of the Mahlites, the clan of the Mushites, the clan of the Korahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram.  
Nu2659 The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister.  
Nu2660 And to Aaron were born Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.  
Nu2661 But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD.  
Nu2662 And those listed were 23,000, every male from a month old and upward. For they were not listed among the people of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the people of Israel.  
Nu2663 These were those listed by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who listed the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.  
Nu2664 But among these there was not one of those listed by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had listed the people of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.  
Nu2665 For the LORD had said of them, “They shall die in the wilderness.” Not one of them was left, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.  
Nu2701 Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the clans of Manasseh the son of Joseph. The names of his daughters were: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.  
Nu2702 And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the chiefs and all the congregation, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, saying,  
Nu2703 “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah, but died for his own sin. And he had no sons.  
Nu2704 Why should the name of our father be taken away from his clan because he had no son? Give to us a possession among our father’s brothers.”  
Nu2705 Moses brought their case before the LORD.  
Nu2706 And the LORD said to Moses,  
Nu2707 “The daughters of Zelophehad are right. You shall give them possession of an inheritance among their father’s brothers and transfer the inheritance of their father to them.  
Nu2708 And you shall speak to the people of Israel, saying, ‘If a man dies and has no son, then you shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter.  
Nu2709 And if he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.  
Nu2710 And if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father’s brothers.  
Nu2711 And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to the nearest kinsman of his clan, and he shall possess it. And it shall be for the people of Israel a statute and rule, as the LORD commanded Moses.’”  
Nu2712 The LORD said to Moses, “Go up into this mountain of Abarim and see the land that I have given to the people of Israel.  
Nu2713 When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as your brother Aaron was,  
Nu2714 because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin when the congregation quarreled, failing to uphold me as holy at the waters before their eyes.” (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)  
Nu2715 Moses spoke to the LORD, saying,  
Nu2716 “Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation  
Nu2717 who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be as sheep that have no shepherd.”  
Nu2718 So the LORD said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.  
Nu2719 Make him stand before Eleazar the priest and all the congregation, and you shall commission him in their sight.  
Nu2720 You shall invest him with some of your authority, that all the congregation of the people of Israel may obey.  
Nu2721 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation.”  
Nu2722 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took Joshua and made him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation,  
Nu2723 and he laid his hands on him and commissioned him as the LORD directed through Moses.  
Nu2801 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu2802 “Command the people of Israel and say to them, ‘My offering, my food for my food offerings, my pleasing aroma, you shall be careful to offer to me at its appointed time.’  
Nu2803 And you shall say to them, This is the food offering that you shall offer to the LORD: two male lambs a year old without blemish, day by day, as a regular offering.  
Nu2804 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight;  
Nu2805 also a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil.  
Nu2806 It is a regular burnt offering, which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.  
Nu2807 Its drink offering shall be a quarter of a hin for each lamb. In the Holy Place you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the LORD.  
Nu2808 The other lamb you shall offer at twilight. Like the grain offering of the morning, and like its drink offering, you shall offer it as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.  
Nu2809 “On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:  
Nu2810 this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.  
Nu2811 “At the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;  
Nu2812 also three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull, and two tenths of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;  
Nu2813 and a tenth of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for every lamb; for a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.  
Nu2814 Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year.  
Nu2815 Also one male goat for a sin offering to the LORD; it shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.  
Nu2816 “On the fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover,  
Nu2817 and on the fifteenth day of this month is a feast. Seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.  
Nu2818 On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work,  
Nu2819 but offer a food offering, a burnt offering to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; see that they are without blemish;  
Nu2820 also their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil; three tenths of an ephah shall you offer for a bull, and two tenths for a ram;  
Nu2821 a tenth shall you offer for each of the seven lambs;  
Nu2822 also one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.  
Nu2823 You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a regular burnt offering.  
Nu2824 In the same way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.  
Nu2825 And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work.  
Nu2826 “On the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a grain offering of new grain to the LORD at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work,  
Nu2827 but offer a burnt offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;  
Nu2828 also their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each bull, two tenths for one ram,  
Nu2829 a tenth for each of the seven lambs;  
Nu2830 with one male goat, to make atonement for you.  
Nu2831 Besides the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, you shall offer them and their drink offering. See that they are without blemish.  
Nu2901 “On the first day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a day for you to blow the trumpets,  
Nu2902 and you shall offer a burnt offering, for a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;  
Nu2903 also their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for the bull, two tenths for the ram,  
Nu2904 and one tenth for each of the seven lambs;  
Nu2905 with one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;  
Nu2906 besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its grain offering, and the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offering, according to the rule for them, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.  
Nu2907 “On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation and afflict yourselves. You shall do no work,  
Nu2908 but you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old: see that they are without blemish.  
Nu2909 And their grain offering shall be of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for the bull, two tenths for the one ram,  
Nu2910 a tenth for each of the seven lambs:  
Nu2911 also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the sin offering of atonement, and the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings.  
Nu2912 “On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days.  
Nu2913 And you shall offer a burnt offering, a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD, thirteen bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;  
Nu2914 and their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each of the two rams,  
Nu2915 and a tenth for each of the fourteen lambs;  
Nu2916 also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offering.  
Nu2917 “On the second day twelve bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,  
Nu2918 with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;  
Nu2919 also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings.  
Nu2920 “On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,  
Nu2921 with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;  
Nu2922 also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.  
Nu2923 “On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,  
Nu2924 with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;  
Nu2925 also one male goat for a sin offering, besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offering.  
Nu2926 “On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,  
Nu2927 with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;  
Nu2928 also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the regular burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.  
Nu2929 “On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,  
Nu2930 with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;  
Nu2931 also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offerings.  
Nu2932 “On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,  
Nu2933 with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;  
Nu2934 also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink offering.  
Nu2935 “On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly. You shall not do any ordinary work,  
Nu2936 but you shall offer a burnt offering, a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish,  
Nu2937 and the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, in the prescribed quantities;  
Nu2938 also one male goat for a sin offering; besides the regular burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.  
Nu2939 “These you shall offer to the LORD at your appointed feasts, in addition to your vow offerings and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your grain offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.”  
Nu2940 So Moses told the people of Israel everything just as the LORD had commanded Moses.  
Nu3001 Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the people of Israel, saying, “This is what the LORD has commanded.  
Nu3002 If a man vows a vow to the LORD, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.  
Nu3003 “If a woman vows a vow to the LORD and binds herself by a pledge, while within her father’s house in her youth,  
Nu3004 and her father hears of her vow and of her pledge by which she has bound herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand.  
Nu3005 But if her father opposes her on the day that he hears of it, no vow of hers, no pledge by which she has bound herself shall stand. And the LORD will forgive her, because her father opposed her.  
Nu3006 “If she marries a husband, while under her vows or any thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she has bound herself,  
Nu3007 and her husband hears of it and says nothing to her on the day that he hears, then her vows shall stand, and her pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.  
Nu3008 But if, on the day that her husband comes to hear of it, he opposes her, then he makes void her vow that was on her, and the thoughtless utterance of her lips by which she bound herself. And the LORD will forgive her.  
Nu3009 (But any vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, anything by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.)  
Nu3010 And if she vowed in her husband’s house or bound herself by a pledge with an oath,  
Nu3011 and her husband heard of it and said nothing to her and did not oppose her, then all her vows shall stand, and every pledge by which she bound herself shall stand.  
Nu3012 But if her husband makes them null and void on the day that he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning her pledge of herself shall not stand. Her husband has made them void, and the LORD will forgive her.  
Nu3013 Any vow and any binding oath to afflict herself, her husband may establish, or her husband may make void.  
Nu3014 But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he establishes all her vows or all her pledges that are upon her. He has established them, because he said nothing to her on the day that he heard of them.  
Nu3015 But if he makes them null and void after he has heard of them, then he shall bear her iniquity.”  
Nu3016 These are the statutes that the LORD commanded Moses about a man and his wife and about a father and his daughter while she is in her youth within her father’s house.  
Nu3101 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu3102 “Avenge the people of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”  
Nu3103 So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the LORD’s vengeance on Midian.  
Nu3104 You shall send a thousand from each of the tribes of Israel to the war.”  
Nu3105 So there were provided, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.  
Nu3106 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, together with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.  
Nu3107 They warred against Midian, as the LORD commanded Moses, and killed every male.  
Nu3108 They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. And they also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.  
Nu3109 And the people of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones, and they took as plunder all their cattle, their flocks, and all their goods.  
Nu3110 All their cities in the places where they lived, and all their encampments, they burned with fire,  
Nu3111 and took all the spoil and all the plunder, both of man and of beast.  
Nu3112 Then they brought the captives and the plunder and the spoil to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the people of Israel, at the camp on the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.  
Nu3113 Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the chiefs of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp.  
Nu3114 And Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war.  
Nu3115 Moses said to them, “Have you let all the women live?  
Nu3116 Behold, these, on Balaam’s advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and so the plague came among the congregation of the LORD.  
Nu3117 Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.  
Nu3118 But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves.  
Nu3119 Encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever of you has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.  
Nu3120 You shall purify every garment, every article of skin, all work of goats’ hair, and every article of wood.”  
Nu3121 Then Eleazar the priest said to the men in the army who had gone to battle: “This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded Moses:  
Nu3122 only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,  
Nu3123 everything that can stand the fire, you shall pass through the fire, and it shall be clean. Nevertheless, it shall also be purified with the water for impurity. And whatever cannot stand the fire, you shall pass through the water.  
Nu3124 You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you shall be clean. And afterward you may come into the camp.”  
Nu3125 The LORD said to Moses,  
Nu3126 “Take the count of the plunder that was taken, both of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the congregation,  
Nu3127 and divide the plunder into two parts between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.  
Nu3128 And levy for the LORD a tribute from the men of war who went out to battle, one out of five hundred, of the people and of the oxen and of the donkeys and of the flocks.  
Nu3129 Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as a contribution to the LORD.  
Nu3130 And from the people of Israel’s half you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the people, of the oxen, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites who keep guard over the tabernacle of the LORD.”  
Nu3131 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded Moses.  
Nu3132 Now the plunder remaining of the spoil that the army took was 675,000 sheep,  
Nu3133 72,000 cattle,  
Nu3134 61,000 donkeys,  
Nu3135 and 32,000 persons in all, women who had not known man by lying with him.  
Nu3136 And the half, the portion of those who had gone out in the army, numbered 337,500 sheep,  
Nu3137 and the LORD’s tribute of sheep was 675.  
Nu3138 The cattle were 36,000, of which the LORD’s tribute was 72.  
Nu3139 The donkeys were 30,500, of which the LORD’s tribute was 61.  
Nu3140 The persons were 16,000, of which the LORD’s tribute was 32 persons.  
Nu3141 And Moses gave the tribute, which was the contribution for the LORD, to Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses.  
Nu3142 From the people of Israel’s half, which Moses separated from that of the men who had served in the army—  
Nu3143 now the congregation’s half was 337,500 sheep,  
Nu3144 36,000 cattle,  
Nu3145       and 30,500 donkeys,     
Nu3146 and 16,000 persons—  
Nu3147 from the people of Israel’s half Moses took one of every 50, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites who kept guard over the tabernacle of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.  
Nu3148 Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, came near to Moses  
Nu3149 and said to Moses, “Your servants have counted the men of war who are under our command, and there is not a man missing from us.  
Nu3150 And we have brought the LORD’s offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and beads, to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”  
Nu3151 And Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them the gold, all crafted articles.  
Nu3152 And all the gold of the contribution that they presented to the LORD, from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels.  
Nu3153 (The men in the army had each taken plunder for himself.)  
Nu3154 And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, as a memorial for the people of Israel before the LORD.  
Nu3201 Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock.  
Nu3202 So the people of Gad and the people of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the congregation,  
Nu3203 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,  
Nu3204 the land that the LORD struck down before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.”  
Nu3205 And they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not take us across the Jordan.”  
Nu3206 But Moses said to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to the war while you sit here?  
Nu3207 Why will you discourage the heart of the people of Israel from going over into the land that the LORD has given them?  
Nu3208 Your fathers did this, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.  
Nu3209 For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the LORD had given them.  
Nu3210 And the LORD’s anger was kindled on that day, and he swore, saying,  
Nu3211 ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me,  
Nu3212 none except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.’  
Nu3213 And the LORD’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone.  
Nu3214 And behold, you have risen in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel!  
Nu3215 For if you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.”  
Nu3216 Then they came near to him and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones,  
Nu3217 but we will take up arms, ready to go before the people of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones shall live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.  
Nu3218 We will not return to our homes until each of the people of Israel has gained his inheritance.  
Nu3219 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east.”  
Nu3220 So Moses said to them, “If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the LORD for the war,  
Nu3221 and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him  
Nu3222 and the land is subdued before the LORD; then after that you shall return and be free of obligation to the LORD and to Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.  
Nu3223 But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin will find you out.  
Nu3224 Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what you have promised.”  
Nu3225 And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben said to Moses, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.  
Nu3226 Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead,  
Nu3227 but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord orders.”  
Nu3228 So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel.  
Nu3229 And Moses said to them, “If the people of Gad and the people of Reuben, every man who is armed to battle before the LORD, will pass with you over the Jordan and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession.  
Nu3230 However, if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”  
Nu3231 And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben answered, “What the LORD has said to your servants, we will do.  
Nu3232 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”  
Nu3233 And Moses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country.  
Nu3234 And the people of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,  
Nu3235 Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,  
Nu3236 Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.  
Nu3237 And the people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,  
Nu3238 Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names were changed), and Sibmah. And they gave other names to the cities that they built.  
Nu3239 And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.  
Nu3240 And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he settled in it.  
Nu3241 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.  
Nu3242 And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.  
Nu3301 These are the stages of the people of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their companies under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.  
Nu3302 Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage, by command of the LORD, and these are their stages according to their starting places.  
Nu3303 They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover, the people of Israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians,  
Nu3304 while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them. On their gods also the LORD executed judgments.  
Nu3305   So the people of Israel set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth.   
Nu3306 And they set out from Succoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.  
Nu3307 And they set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is east of Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol.  
Nu3308 And they set out from before Hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they went a three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.  
Nu3309 And they set out from Marah and came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.  
Nu3310 And they set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.  
Nu3311 And they set out from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.  
Nu3312 And they set out from the wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah.  
Nu3313 And they set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.  
Nu3314 And they set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.  
Nu3315 And they set out from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.  
Nu3316 And they set out from the wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.  
Nu3317 And they set out from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.  
Nu3318 And they set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.  
Nu3319 And they set out from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez.  
Nu3320 And they set out from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah.  
Nu3321   And they set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah.   
Nu3322 And they set out from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.  
Nu3323 And they set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.  
Nu3324 And they set out from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.  
Nu3325 And they set out from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.  
Nu3326   And they set out from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.   
Nu3327 And they set out from Tahath and camped at Terah.  
Nu3328 And they set out from Terah and camped at Mithkah.  
Nu3329 And they set out from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.  
Nu3330 And they set out from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.  
Nu3331 And they set out from Moseroth and camped at Bene-jaakan.  
Nu3332 And they set out from Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad.  
Nu3333 And they set out from Hor-haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.  
Nu3334 And they set out from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.  
Nu3335 And they set out from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.  
Nu3336 And they set out from Ezion-geber and camped in the wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh).  
Nu3337 And they set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.  
Nu3338 And Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the LORD and died there, in the fortieth year after the people of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.  
Nu3339 And Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.  
Nu3340 And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the people of Israel.  
Nu3341 And they set out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.  
Nu3342 And they set out from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.  
Nu3343 And they set out from Punon and camped at Oboth.  
Nu3344 And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the territory of Moab.  
Nu3345 And they set out from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.  
Nu3346 And they set out from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.  
Nu3347 And they set out from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.  
Nu3348 And they set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho;  
Nu3349 they camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.  
Nu3350 And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,  
Nu3351 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,  
Nu3352 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places.  
Nu3353 And you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it.  
Nu3354 You shall inherit the land by lot according to your clans. To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that shall be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.  
Nu3355 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.  
Nu3356 And I will do to you as I thought to do to them.”  
Nu3401 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu3402 “Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined by its borders),  
Nu3403 your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside Edom, and your southern border shall run from the end of the Salt Sea on the east.  
Nu3404 And your border shall turn south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and cross to Zin, and its limit shall be south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon.  
Nu3405 And the border shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and its limit shall be at the sea.  
Nu3406 “For the western border, you shall have the Great Sea and its coast. This shall be your western border.  
Nu3407 “This shall be your northern border: from the Great Sea you shall draw a line to Mount Hor.  
Nu3408 From Mount Hor you shall draw a line to Lebo-hamath, and the limit of the border shall be at Zedad.  
Nu3409 Then the border shall extend to Ziphron, and its limit shall be at Hazar-enan. This shall be your northern border.  
Nu3410 “You shall draw a line for your eastern border from Hazar-enan to Shepham.  
Nu3411 And the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain. And the border shall go down and reach to the shoulder of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east.  
Nu3412 And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its limit shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land as defined by its borders all around.”  
Nu3413 Moses commanded the people of Israel, saying, “This is the land that you shall inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe.  
Nu3414 For the tribe of the people of Reuben by fathers’ houses and the tribe of the people of Gad by their fathers’ houses have received their inheritance, and also the half-tribe of Manasseh.  
Nu3415 The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, toward the sunrise.”  
Nu3416 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu3417 “These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.  
Nu3418 You shall take one chief from every tribe to divide the land for inheritance.  
Nu3419 These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.  
Nu3420 Of the tribe of the people of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.  
Nu3421 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.  
Nu3422 Of the tribe of the people of Dan a chief, Bukki the son of Jogli.  
Nu3423 Of the people of Joseph: of the tribe of the people of Manasseh a chief, Hanniel the son of Ephod.  
Nu3424 And of the tribe of the people of Ephraim a chief, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.  
Nu3425 Of the tribe of the people of Zebulun a chief, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.  
Nu3426 Of the tribe of the people of Issachar a chief, Paltiel the son of Azzan.  
Nu3427 And of the tribe of the people of Asher a chief, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.  
Nu3428 Of the tribe of the people of Naphtali a chief, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.”  
Nu3429 These are the men whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance for the people of Israel in the land of Canaan.  
Nu3501 The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,  
Nu3502 “Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession as cities for them to dwell in. And you shall give to the Levites pasturelands around the cities.  
Nu3503 The cities shall be theirs to dwell in, and their pasturelands shall be for their cattle and for their livestock and for all their beasts.  
Nu3504 The pasturelands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits all around.  
Nu3505 And you shall measure, outside the city, on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall belong to them as pastureland for their cities.  
Nu3506 “The cities that you give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit the manslayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.  
Nu3507 All the cities that you give to the Levites shall be forty-eight, with their pasturelands.  
Nu3508 And as for the cities that you shall give from the possession of the people of Israel, from the larger tribes you shall take many, and from the smaller tribes you shall take few; each, in proportion to the inheritance that it inherits, shall give of its cities to the Levites.”  
Nu3509 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,  
Nu3510 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,  
Nu3511 then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there.  
Nu3512 The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.  
Nu3513 And the cities that you give shall be your six cities of refuge.  
Nu3514 You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge.  
Nu3515 These six cities shall be for refuge for the people of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills any person without intent may flee there.  
Nu3516 “But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.  
Nu3517 And if he struck him down with a stone tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.  
Nu3518 Or if he struck him down with a wooden tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.  
Nu3519 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death.  
Nu3520 And if he pushed him out of hatred or hurled something at him, lying in wait, so that he died,  
Nu3521 or in enmity struck him down with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow shall be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.  
Nu3522 “But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity, or hurled anything on him without lying in wait  
Nu3523 or used a stone that could cause death, and without seeing him dropped it on him, so that he died, though he was not his enemy and did not seek his harm,  
Nu3524 then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.  
Nu3525 And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.  
Nu3526 But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the boundaries of his city of refuge to which he fled,  
Nu3527 and the avenger of blood finds him outside the boundaries of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood.  
Nu3528 For he must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest, but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession.  
Nu3529 And these things shall be for a statute and rule for you throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.  
Nu3530 “If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.  
Nu3531 Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death.  
Nu3532 And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest.  
Nu3533 You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.  
Nu3534 You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, for I the LORD dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.”  
Nu3601 The heads of the fathers’ houses of the clan of the people of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the clans of the people of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the chiefs, the heads of the fathers’ houses of the people of Israel.  
Nu3602 They said, “The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the people of Israel, and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.  
Nu3603 But if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the people of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.  
Nu3604 And when the jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”  
Nu3605 And Moses commanded the people of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, “The tribe of the people of Joseph is right.  
Nu3606 This is what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: ‘Let them marry whom they think best, only they shall marry within the clan of the tribe of their father.  
Nu3607 The inheritance of the people of Israel shall not be transferred from one tribe to another, for every one of the people of Israel shall hold on to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.  
Nu3608 And every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the people of Israel shall be wife to one of the clan of the tribe of her father, so that every one of the people of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers.  
Nu3609 So no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another, for each of the tribes of the people of Israel shall hold on to its own inheritance.’”  
Nu3610 The daughters of Zelophehad did as the LORD commanded Moses,  
Nu3611 for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to sons of their father’s brothers.  
Nu3612 They were married into the clans of the people of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father’s clan.  
Nu3613 These are the commandments and the rules that the LORD commanded through Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.  
Dt0101 These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.  
Dt0102 It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.  
Dt0103 In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him in commandment to them,  
Dt0104 after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.  
Dt0105 Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to explain this law, saying,  
Dt0106 “The LORD our God said to us in Horeb, ‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain.  
Dt0107 Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.  
Dt0108 See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.’  
Dt0109 “At that time I said to you, ‘I am not able to bear you by myself.  
Dt0110 The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven.  
Dt0111 May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!  
Dt0112 How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife?  
Dt0113 Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.’  
Dt0114 And you answered me, ‘The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.’  
Dt0115 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes.  
Dt0116 And I charged your judges at that time, ‘Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.  
Dt0117 You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God’s. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’  
Dt0118 And I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do.  
Dt0119 “Then we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrifying wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea.  
Dt0120 And I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God is giving us.  
Dt0121 See, the LORD your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not fear or be dismayed.’  
Dt0122 Then all of you came near me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.’  
Dt0123 The thing seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from you, one man from each tribe.  
Dt0124 And they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out.  
Dt0125 And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again and said, ‘It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.’  
Dt0126 “Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.  
Dt0127 And you murmured in your tents and said, ‘Because the LORD hated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.  
Dt0128 Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.”’  
Dt0129 Then I said to you, ‘Do not be in dread or afraid of them.  
Dt0130 The LORD your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,  
Dt0131 and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.’  
Dt0132 Yet in spite of this word you did not believe the LORD your God,  
Dt0133 who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and in the cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go.  
Dt0134 “And the LORD heard your words and was angered, and he swore,  
Dt0135 ‘Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers,  
Dt0136 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the LORD!’  
Dt0137 Even with me the LORD was angry on your account and said, ‘You also shall not go in there.  
Dt0138 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.  
Dt0139 And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.  
Dt0140 But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.’  
Dt0141 “Then you answered me, ‘We have sinned against the LORD. We ourselves will go up and fight, just as the LORD our God commanded us.’ And every one of you fastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy to go up into the hill country.  
Dt0142 And the LORD said to me, ‘Say to them, Do not go up or fight, for I am not in your midst, lest you be defeated before your enemies.’  
Dt0143 So I spoke to you, and you would not listen; but you rebelled against the command of the LORD and presumptuously went up into the hill country.  
Dt0144 Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and beat you down in Seir as far as Hormah.  
Dt0145 And you returned and wept before the LORD, but the LORD did not listen to your voice or give ear to you.  
Dt0146 So you remained at Kadesh many days, the days that you remained there.  
Dt0201 “Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, as the LORD told me. And for many days we traveled around Mount Seir.  
Dt0202 Then the LORD said to me,  
Dt0203 ‘You have been traveling around this mountain country long enough. Turn northward  
Dt0204 and command the people, “You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful.  
Dt0205 Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.  
Dt0206 You shall purchase food from them with money, that you may eat, and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink.  
Dt0207 For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”’  
Dt0208 So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. “And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.  
Dt0209 And the LORD said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the people of Lot for a possession.’  
Dt0210 (The Emim formerly lived there, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim.  
Dt0211 Like the Anakim they are also counted as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.  
Dt0212 The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the people of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, as Israel did to the land of their possession, which the LORD gave to them.)  
Dt0213 ‘Now rise up and go over the brook Zered.’ So we went over the brook Zered.  
Dt0214 And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty- eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.  
Dt0215 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they had perished.  
Dt0216 “So as soon as all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people,  
Dt0217 the LORD said to me,  
Dt0218 ‘Today you are to cross the border of Moab at Ar.  
Dt0219 And when you approach the territory of the people of Ammon, do not harass them or contend with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.’  
Dt0220 (It is also counted as a land of Rephaim. Rephaim formerly lived there—but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim—  
Dt0221 a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before the Ammonites, and they dispossessed them and settled in their place,  
Dt0222 as he did for the people of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them and they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day.  
Dt0223 As for the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their place.)  
Dt0224 ‘Rise up, set out on your journey and go over the Valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession, and contend with him in battle.  
Dt0225 This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.’  
Dt0226 “So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,  
Dt0227 ‘Let me pass through your land. I will go only by the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left.  
Dt0228 You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink. Only let me pass through on foot,  
Dt0229 as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving to us.’  
Dt0230 But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the LORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day.  
Dt0231 And the LORD said to me, ‘Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.’  
Dt0232 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.  
Dt0233 And the LORD our God gave him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and all his people.  
Dt0234 And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.  
Dt0235 Only the livestock we took as spoil for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities that we captured.  
Dt0236 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The LORD our God gave all into our hands.  
Dt0237 Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever the LORD our God had forbidden us.  
Dt0301 “Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.  
Dt0302 But the LORD said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.’  
Dt0303 So the LORD our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, and we struck him down until he had no survivor left.  
Dt0304 And we took all his cities at that time—there was not a city that we did not take from them—sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.  
Dt0305 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages.  
Dt0306 And we devoted them to destruction, as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every city, men, women, and children.  
Dt0307 But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as our plunder.  
Dt0308 So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon  
Dt0309 (the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, while the Amorites call it Senir),  
Dt0310 all the cities of the tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.  
Dt0311 (For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)  
Dt0312 “When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities.  
Dt0313 The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, all the region of Argob, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (All that portion of Bashan is called the land of Rephaim.  
Dt0314 Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)  
Dt0315 To Machir I gave Gilead,  
Dt0316 and to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a border, as far over as the river Jabbok, the border of the Ammonites;  
Dt0317 the Arabah also, with the Jordan as the border, from Chinnereth as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah on the east.  
Dt0318 “And I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All your men of valor shall cross over armed before your brothers, the people of Israel.  
Dt0319 Only your wives, your little ones, and your livestock (I know that you have much livestock) shall remain in the cities that I have given you,  
Dt0320 until the LORD gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also occupy the land that the LORD your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you.’  
Dt0321 And I commanded Joshua at that time, ‘Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings. So will the LORD do to all the kingdoms into which you are crossing.  
Dt0322 You shall not fear them, for it is the LORD your God who fights for you.’  
Dt0323 “And I pleaded with the LORD at that time, saying,  
Dt0324 ‘O Lord GOD, you have only begun to show your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. For what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do such works and mighty acts as yours?  
Dt0325 Please let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, that good hill country and Lebanon.’  
Dt0326 But the LORD was angry with me because of you and would not listen to me. And the LORD said to me, ‘Enough from you; do not speak to me of this matter again.  
Dt0327 Go up to the top of Pisgah and lift up your eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and look at it with your eyes, for you shall not go over this Jordan.  
Dt0328 But charge Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he shall go over at the head of this people, and he shall put them in possession of the land that you shall see.’  
Dt0329 So we remained in the valley opposite Beth-peor.  
Dt0401 “And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.  
Dt0402 You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you.  
Dt0403 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did at Baal-peor, for the LORD your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor.  
Dt0404 But you who held fast to the LORD your God are all alive today.  
Dt0405 See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.  
Dt0406 Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’  
Dt0407 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?  
Dt0408 And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today?  
Dt0409 “Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children—  
Dt0410 how on the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’  
Dt0411 And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom.  
Dt0412 Then the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice.  
Dt0413 And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone.  
Dt0414 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess.  
Dt0415 “Therefore watch yourselves very carefully. Since you saw no form on the day that the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,  
Dt0416 beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,  
Dt0417 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,  
Dt0418 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.  
Dt0419 And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.  
Dt0420 But the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be a people of his own inheritance, as you are this day.  
Dt0421 Furthermore, the LORD was angry with me because of you, and he swore that I should not cross the Jordan, and that I should not enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.  
Dt0422 For I must die in this land; I must not go over the Jordan. But you shall go over and take possession of that good land.  
Dt0423 Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make a carved image, the form of anything that the LORD your God has forbidden you.  
Dt0424 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.  
Dt0425 “When you father children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, so as to provoke him to anger,  
Dt0426 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.  
Dt0427 And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.  
Dt0428 And there you will serve gods of wood and stone, the work of human hands, that neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.  
Dt0429 But from there you will seek the LORD your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.  
Dt0430 When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey his voice.  
Dt0431 For the LORD your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.  
Dt0432 “For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of.  
Dt0433 Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live?  
Dt0434 Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?  
Dt0435 To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides him.  
Dt0436 Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you. And on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.  
Dt0437 And because he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power,  
Dt0438 driving out before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day,  
Dt0439 know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.  
Dt0440 Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.”  
Dt0441 Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan,  
Dt0442 that the manslayer might flee there, anyone who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without being at enmity with him in time past; he may flee to one of these cities and save his life:  
Dt0443 Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.  
Dt0444 This is the law that Moses set before the people of Israel.  
Dt0445 These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the rules, which Moses spoke to the people of Israel when they came out of Egypt,  
Dt0446 beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the people of Israel defeated when they came out of Egypt.  
Dt0447 And they took possession of his land and the land of Og, the king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who lived to the east beyond the Jordan;  
Dt0448 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, as far as Mount Sirion (that is, Hermon),  
Dt0449 together with all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.  
Dt0501 And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.  
Dt0502 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.  
Dt0503 Not with our fathers did the LORD make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today.  
Dt0504 The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire,  
Dt0505 while I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD. For you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said:  
Dt0506 “‘I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.  
Dt0507 “‘You shall have no other gods before me.  
Dt0508 “‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.  
Dt0509 You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,  
Dt0510 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.  
Dt0511 “‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.  
Dt0512 “‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.  
Dt0513 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,  
Dt0514 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.  
Dt0515 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.  
Dt0516 “‘Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.  
Dt0517 “‘You shall not murder.  
Dt0518 “‘And you shall not commit adultery.  
Dt0519 “‘And you shall not steal.  
Dt0520 “‘And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.  
Dt0521 “‘And you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.’  
Dt0522 “These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.  
Dt0523 And as soon as you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders.  
Dt0524 And you said, ‘Behold, the LORD our God has shown us his glory and greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire. This day we have seen God speak with man, and man still live.  
Dt0525 Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, we shall die.  
Dt0526 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived?  
Dt0527 Go near and hear all that the LORD our God will say, and speak to us all that the LORD our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.’  
Dt0528 “And the LORD heard your words, when you spoke to me. And the LORD said to me, ‘I have heard the words of this people, which they have spoken to you. They are right in all that they have spoken.  
Dt0529 Oh that they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!  
Dt0530 Go and say to them, “Return to your tents.”  
Dt0531 But you, stand here by me, and I will tell you the whole commandment and the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land that I am giving them to possess.’  
Dt0532 You shall be careful therefore to do as the LORD your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.  
Dt0533 You shall walk in all the way that the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.  
Dt0601 “Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it,  
Dt0602 that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.  
Dt0603 Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.  
Dt0604 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.  
Dt0605 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.  
Dt0606 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.  
Dt0607 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.  
Dt0608 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.  
Dt0609 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.  
Dt0610 “And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build,  
Dt0611 and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full,  
Dt0612 then take care lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.  
Dt0613 It is the LORD your God you shall fear. Him you shall serve and by his name you shall swear.  
Dt0614 You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you—  
Dt0615 for the LORD your God in your midst is a jealous God—lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.  
Dt0616 “You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.  
Dt0617 You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies and his statutes, which he has commanded you.  
Dt0618 And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the LORD, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers  
Dt0619 by thrusting out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has promised.  
Dt0620 “When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the LORD our God has commanded you?’  
Dt0621 then you shall say to your son, ‘We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.  
Dt0622 And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and all his household, before our eyes.  
Dt0623 And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land that he swore to give to our fathers.  
Dt0624 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as we are this day.  
Dt0625 And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.’  
Dt0701 “When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you,  
Dt0702 and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.  
Dt0703 You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,  
Dt0704 for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.  
Dt0705 But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire.  
Dt0706 “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.  
Dt0707 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples,  
Dt0708 but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.  
Dt0709 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,  
Dt0710 and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.  
Dt0711 You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.  
Dt0712 “And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the LORD your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers.  
Dt0713 He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.  
Dt0714 You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock.  
Dt0715 And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you.  
Dt0716 And you shall consume all the peoples that the LORD your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.  
Dt0717 “If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?’  
Dt0718 you shall not be afraid of them but you shall remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,  
Dt0719 the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. So will the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.  
Dt0720 Moreover, the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.  
Dt0721 You shall not be in dread of them, for the LORD your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.  
Dt0722 The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.  
Dt0723 But the LORD your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.  
Dt0724 And he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under heaven. No one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them.  
Dt0725 The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.  
Dt0726 And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction.  
Dt0801 “The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers.  
Dt0802 And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.  
Dt0803 And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.  
Dt0804 Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.  
Dt0805 Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you.  
Dt0806 So you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him.  
Dt0807 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills,  
Dt0808 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,  
Dt0809 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.  
Dt0810 And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you.  
Dt0811 “Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,  
Dt0812 lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them,  
Dt0813 and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied,  
Dt0814 then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,  
Dt0815 who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock,  
Dt0816 who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.  
Dt0817 Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’  
Dt0818 You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.  
Dt0819 And if you forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish.  
Dt0820 Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.  
Dt0901 “Hear, O Israel: you are to cross over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, cities great and fortified up to heaven,  
Dt0902 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’  
Dt0903 Know therefore today that he who goes over before you as a consuming fire is the LORD your God. He will destroy them and subdue them before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the LORD has promised you.  
Dt0904 “Do not say in your heart, after the LORD your God has thrust them out before you, ‘It is because of my righteousness that the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,’ whereas it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out before you.  
Dt0905 Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.  
Dt0906 “Know, therefore, that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stubborn people.  
Dt0907 Remember and do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.  
Dt0908 Even at Horeb you provoked the LORD to wrath, and the LORD was so angry with you that he was ready to destroy you.  
Dt0909 When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.  
Dt0910 And the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words that the LORD had spoken with you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly.  
Dt0911 And at the end of forty days and forty nights the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.  
Dt0912 Then the LORD said to me, ‘Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them; they have made themselves a metal image.’  
Dt0913 “Furthermore, the LORD said to me, ‘I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stubborn people.  
Dt0914 Let me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’  
Dt0915 So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.  
Dt0916 And I looked, and behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had made yourselves a golden calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.  
Dt0917 So I took hold of the two tablets and threw them out of my two hands and broke them before your eyes.  
Dt0918 Then I lay prostrate before the LORD as before, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all the sin that you had committed, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger.  
Dt0919 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure that the LORD bore against you, so that he was ready to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me that time also.  
Dt0920 And the LORD was so angry with Aaron that he was ready to destroy him. And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.  
Dt0921 Then I took the sinful thing, the calf that you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. And I threw the dust of it into the brook that ran down from the mountain.  
Dt0922 “At Taberah also, and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the LORD to wrath.  
Dt0923 And when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God and did not believe him or obey his voice.  
Dt0924 You have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.  
Dt0925 “So I lay prostrate before the LORD for these forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said he would destroy you.  
Dt0926 And I prayed to the LORD, ‘O Lord GOD, do not destroy your people and your heritage, whom you have redeemed through your greatness, whom you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.  
Dt0927 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin,  
Dt0928 lest the land from which you brought us say, “Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.”  
Dt0929 For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.’  
Dt1001 “At that time the LORD said to me, ‘Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain and make an ark of wood.  
Dt1002 And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets that you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.’  
Dt1003 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.  
Dt1004 And he wrote on the tablets, in the same writing as before, the Ten Commandments that the LORD had spoken to you on the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me.  
Dt1005 Then I turned and came down from the mountain and put the tablets in the ark that I had made. And there they are, as the LORD commanded me.”  
Dt1006 (The people of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried. And his son Eleazar ministered as priest in his place.  
Dt1007 From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with brooks of water.  
Dt1008 At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD to stand before the LORD to minister to him and to bless in his name, to this day.  
Dt1009 Therefore Levi has no portion or inheritance with his brothers. The LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God said to him.)  
Dt1010 “I myself stayed on the mountain, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights, and the LORD listened to me that time also. The LORD was unwilling to destroy you.  
Dt1011 And the LORD said to me, ‘Arise, go on your journey at the head of the people, so that they may go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them.’  
Dt1012 “And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,  
Dt1013 and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today for your good?  
Dt1014 Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it.  
Dt1015 Yet the LORD set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.  
Dt1016 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.  
Dt1017 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.  
Dt1018 He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.  
Dt1019 Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.  
Dt1020 You shall fear the LORD your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear.  
Dt1021 He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen.  
Dt1022 Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.  
Dt1101 “You shall therefore love the LORD your God and keep his charge, his statutes, his rules, and his commandments always.  
Dt1102 And consider today (since I am not speaking to your children who have not known or seen it), consider the discipline of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm,  
Dt1103 his signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt and to all his land,  
Dt1104 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD has destroyed them to this day,  
Dt1105 and what he did to you in the wilderness, until you came to this place,  
Dt1106 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel.  
Dt1107 For your eyes have seen all the great work of the LORD that he did.  
Dt1108 “You shall therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land that you are going over to possess,  
Dt1109 and that you may live long in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey.  
Dt1110 For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it, like a garden of vegetables.  
Dt1111 But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven,  
Dt1112 a land that the LORD your God cares for. The eyes of the LORD your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.  
Dt1113 “And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,  
Dt1114 he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your wine and your oil.  
Dt1115 And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.  
Dt1116 Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them;  
Dt1117 then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the LORD is giving you.  
Dt1118 “You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.  
Dt1119 You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.  
Dt1120 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,  
Dt1121 that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.  
Dt1122 For if you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the LORD your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him,  
Dt1123 then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.  
Dt1124 Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.  
Dt1125 No one shall be able to stand against you. The LORD your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall tread, as he promised you.  
Dt1126 “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:  
Dt1127 the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today,  
Dt1128 and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.  
Dt1129 And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.  
Dt1130 Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh?  
Dt1131 For you are to cross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you. And when you possess it and live in it,  
Dt1132 you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the rules that I am setting before you today.  
Dt1201 “These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.  
Dt1202 You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.  
Dt1203 You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.  
Dt1204 You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way.  
Dt1205 But you shall seek the place that the LORD your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go,  
Dt1206 and there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.  
Dt1207 And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the LORD your God has blessed you.  
Dt1208 “You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes,  
Dt1209 for you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.  
Dt1210 But when you go over the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you live in safety,  
Dt1211 then to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the LORD.  
Dt1212 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male servants and your female servants, and the Levite that is within your towns, since he has no portion or inheritance with you.  
Dt1213 Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place that you see,  
Dt1214 but at the place that the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.  
Dt1215 “However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.  
Dt1216 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.  
Dt1217 You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or any of your vow offerings that you vow, or your freewill offerings or the contribution that you present,  
Dt1218 but you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place that the LORD your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your towns. And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all that you undertake.  
Dt1219 Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.  
Dt1220 “When the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire.  
Dt1221 If the place that the LORD your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, then you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your towns whenever you desire.  
Dt1222 Just as the gazelle or the deer is eaten, so you may eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike may eat of it.  
Dt1223 Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.  
Dt1224 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.  
Dt1225 You shall not eat it, that all may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.  
Dt1226 But the holy things that are due from you, and your vow offerings, you shall take, and you shall go to the place that the LORD will choose,  
Dt1227 and offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, but the flesh you may eat.  
Dt1228 Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.  
Dt1229 “When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,  
Dt1230 take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’  
Dt1231 You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the LORD hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.  
Dt1232 “Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You shall not add to it or take from it.  
Dt1301 “If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,  
Dt1302 and the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, ‘Let us go after other gods,’ which you have not known, ‘and let us serve them,’  
Dt1303 you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.  
Dt1304 You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.  
Dt1305 But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.  
Dt1306 “If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which neither you nor your fathers have known,  
Dt1307 some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other,  
Dt1308 you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him.  
Dt1309 But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.  
Dt1310 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.  
Dt1311 And all Israel shall hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.  
Dt1312 “If you hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you to dwell there,  
Dt1313 that certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ which you have not known,  
Dt1314 then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you,  
Dt1315 you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction, all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.  
Dt1316 You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again.  
Dt1317 None of the devoted things shall stick to your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers,  
Dt1318 if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the LORD your God.  
Dt1401 “You are the sons of the LORD your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.  
Dt1402 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.  
Dt1403 “You shall not eat any abomination.  
Dt1404 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,  
Dt1405 the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.  
Dt1406 Every animal that parts the hoof and has the hoof cloven in two and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.  
Dt1407 Yet of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cloven you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, because they chew the cud but do not part the hoof, are unclean for you.  
Dt1408 And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.  
Dt1409 “Of all that are in the waters you may eat these: whatever has fins and scales you may eat.  
Dt1410 And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.  
Dt1411 “You may eat all clean birds.  
Dt1412 But these are the ones that you shall not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,  
Dt1413 the kite, the falcon of any kind;  
Dt1414   every raven of any kind;   
Dt1415 the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind;  
Dt1416 the little owl and the short-eared owl, the barn owl  
Dt1417 and the tawny owl, the carrion vulture and the cormorant,  
Dt1418 the stork, the heron of any kind; the hoopoe and the bat.  
Dt1419 And all winged insects are unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.  
Dt1420 All clean winged things you may eat.  
Dt1421 “You shall not eat anything that has died naturally. You may give it to the sojourner who is within your towns, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.  
Dt1422 “You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year.  
Dt1423 And before the LORD your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.  
Dt1424 And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the LORD your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the LORD your God chooses, to set his name there,  
Dt1425 then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the LORD your God chooses  
Dt1426 and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the LORD your God and rejoice, you and your household.  
Dt1427 And you shall not neglect the Levite who is within your towns, for he has no portion or inheritance with you.  
Dt1428 “At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in the same year and lay it up within your towns.  
Dt1429 And the Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance with you, and the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your towns, shall come and eat and be filled, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands that you do.  
Dt1501 “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release.  
Dt1502 And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the LORD’s release has been proclaimed.  
Dt1503 Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release.  
Dt1504 But there will be no poor among you; for the LORD will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess—  
Dt1505 if only you will strictly obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today.  
Dt1506 For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you, and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow, and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.  
Dt1507 “If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,  
Dt1508 but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.  
Dt1509 Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the LORD against you, and you be guilty of sin.  
Dt1510 You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.  
Dt1511 For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’  
Dt1512 “If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.  
Dt1513 And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty-handed.  
Dt1514 You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress. As the LORD your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.  
Dt1515 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.  
Dt1516 But if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he is well-off with you,  
Dt1517 then you shall take an awl, and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your slave forever. And to your female slave you shall do the same.  
Dt1518 It shall not seem hard to you when you let him go free from you, for at half the cost of a hired worker he has served you six years. So the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.  
Dt1519 “All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and flock you shall dedicate to the LORD your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.  
Dt1520 You shall eat it, you and your household, before the LORD your God year by year at the place that the LORD will choose.  
Dt1521 But if it has any blemish, if it is lame or blind or has any serious blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.  
Dt1522 You shall eat it within your towns. The unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a deer.  
Dt1523 Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.  
Dt1601 “Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.  
Dt1602 And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the LORD your God, from the flock or the herd, at the place that the LORD will choose, to make his name dwell there.  
Dt1603 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction—for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste—that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.  
Dt1604 No leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the flesh that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning.  
Dt1605 You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you,  
Dt1606 but at the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell in it, there you shall offer the Passover sacrifice, in the evening at sunset, at the time you came out of Egypt.  
Dt1607 And you shall cook it and eat it at the place that the LORD your God will choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents.  
Dt1608 For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God. You shall do no work on it.  
Dt1609 “You shall count seven weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.  
Dt1610 Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the LORD your God blesses you.  
Dt1611 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name dwell there.  
Dt1612 You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.  
Dt1613 “You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress.  
Dt1614 You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns.  
Dt1615 For seven days you shall keep the feast to the LORD your God at the place that the LORD will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.  
Dt1616 “Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths. They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed.  
Dt1617 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you.  
Dt1618 “You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.  
Dt1619 You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous.  
Dt1620 Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the LORD your God is giving you.  
Dt1621 “You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the LORD your God that you shall make.  
Dt1622 And you shall not set up a pillar, which the LORD your God hates.  
Dt1701 “You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep in which is a blemish, any defect whatever, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.  
Dt1702 “If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing his covenant,  
Dt1703 and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden,  
Dt1704 and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel,  
Dt1705 then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones.  
Dt1706 On the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses the one who is to die shall be put to death; a person shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness.  
Dt1707 The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.  
Dt1708 “If any case arises requiring decision between one kind of homicide and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another, any case within your towns that is too difficult for you, then you shall arise and go up to the place that the LORD your God will choose.  
Dt1709 And you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and they shall declare to you the decision.  
Dt1710 Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place that the LORD will choose. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you.  
Dt1711 According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left.  
Dt1712 The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.  
Dt1713 And all the people shall hear and fear and not act presumptuously again.  
Dt1714 “When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’  
Dt1715 you may indeed set a king over you whom the LORD your God will choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.  
Dt1716 Only he must not acquire many horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since the LORD has said to you, ‘You shall never return that way again.’  
Dt1717 And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.  
Dt1718 “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests.  
Dt1719 And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them,  
Dt1720 that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.  
Dt1801 “The Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the LORD’s food offerings as their inheritance.  
Dt1802 They shall have no inheritance among their brothers; the LORD is their inheritance, as he promised them.  
Dt1803 And this shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep: they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.  
Dt1804 The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.  
Dt1805 For the LORD your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for all time.  
Dt1806 “And if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he lives—and he may come when he desires—to the place that the LORD will choose,  
Dt1807 and ministers in the name of the LORD his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the LORD,  
Dt1808 then he may have equal portions to eat, besides what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.  
Dt1809 “When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.  
Dt1810 There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer  
Dt1811 or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead,  
Dt1812 for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD. And because of these abominations the LORD your God is driving them out before you.  
Dt1813 You shall be blameless before the LORD your God,  
Dt1814 for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this.  
Dt1815 “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen—  
Dt1816 just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’  
Dt1817 And the LORD said to me, ‘They are right in what they have spoken.  
Dt1818 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.  
Dt1819 And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.  
Dt1820 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’  
Dt1821 And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?’—  
Dt1822 when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.  
Dt1901 “When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,  
Dt1902 you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.  
Dt1903 You shall measure the distances and divide into three parts the area of the land that the LORD your God gives you as a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them.  
Dt1904 “This is the provision for the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unintentionally without having hated him in the past—  
Dt1905 as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live,  
Dt1906 lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.  
Dt1907 Therefore I command you, You shall set apart three cities.  
Dt1908 And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers—  
Dt1909 provided you are careful to keep all this commandment, which I command you today, by loving the LORD your God and by walking ever in his ways—then you shall add three other cities to these three,  
Dt1910 lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.  
Dt1911 “But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities,  
Dt1912 then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.  
Dt1913 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may be well with you.  
Dt1914 “You shall not move your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.  
Dt1915 “A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a charge be established.  
Dt1916 If a malicious witness arises to accuse a person of wrongdoing,  
Dt1917 then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.  
Dt1918 The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,  
Dt1919 then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.  
Dt1920 And the rest shall hear and fear, and shall never again commit any such evil among you.  
Dt1921 Your eye shall not pity. It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.  
Dt2001 “When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.  
Dt2002 And when you draw near to the battle, the priest shall come forward and speak to the people  
Dt2003 and shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel, today you are drawing near for battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint. Do not fear or panic or be in dread of them,  
Dt2004 for the LORD your God is he who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies, to give you the victory.’  
Dt2005 Then the officers shall speak to the people, saying, ‘Is there any man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man dedicate it.  
Dt2006 And is there any man who has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed its fruit? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man enjoy its fruit.  
Dt2007 And is there any man who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.’  
Dt2008 And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, ‘Is there any man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.’  
Dt2009 And when the officers have finished speaking to the people, then commanders shall be appointed at the head of the people.  
Dt2010 “When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it.  
Dt2011 And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you.  
Dt2012 But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it.  
Dt2013 And when the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword,  
Dt2014 but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you.  
Dt2015 Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.  
Dt2016 But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes,  
Dt2017 but you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD your God has commanded,  
Dt2018 that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you sin against the LORD your God.  
Dt2019 “When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You may eat from them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field human, that they should be besieged by you?  
Dt2020 Only the trees that you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.  
Dt2101 “If in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess someone is found slain, lying in the open country, and it is not known who killed him,  
Dt2102 then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.  
Dt2103 And the elders of the city that is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer that has never been worked and that has not pulled in a yoke.  
Dt2104 And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.  
Dt2105 Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to him and to bless in the name of the LORD, and by their word every dispute and every assault shall be settled.  
Dt2106 And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,  
Dt2107 and they shall testify, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it shed.  
Dt2108 Accept atonement, O LORD, for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned for.’  
Dt2109 So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.  
Dt2110 “When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive,  
Dt2111 and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife,  
Dt2112 and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails.  
Dt2113 And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.  
Dt2114 But if you no longer delight in her, you shall let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.  
Dt2115 “If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,  
Dt2116 then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn,  
Dt2117 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.  
Dt2118 “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,  
Dt2119 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives,  
Dt2120 and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’  
Dt2121 Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.  
Dt2122 “And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,  
Dt2123 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.  
Dt2201 “You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You shall take them back to your brother.  
Dt2202 And if he does not live near you and you do not know who he is, you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall stay with you until your brother seeks it. Then you shall restore it to him.  
Dt2203 And you shall do the same with his donkey or with his garment, or with any lost thing of your brother’s, which he loses and you find; you may not ignore it.  
Dt2204 You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them. You shall help him to lift them up again.  
Dt2205 “A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.  
Dt2206 “If you come across a bird’s nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.  
Dt2207 You shall let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long.  
Dt2208 “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it.  
Dt2209 “You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.  
Dt2210 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.  
Dt2211 You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together.  
Dt2212 “You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself.  
Dt2213 “If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then hates her  
Dt2214 and accuses her of misconduct and brings a bad name upon her, saying, ‘I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her evidence of virginity,’  
Dt2215 then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.  
Dt2216 And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to marry, and he hates her;  
Dt2217 and behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, “I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity.” And yet this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloak before the elders of the city.  
Dt2218 Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him,  
Dt2219 and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.  
Dt2220 But if the thing is true, that evidence of virginity was not found in the young woman,  
Dt2221 then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father’s house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.  
Dt2222 “If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.  
Dt2223 “If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,  
Dt2224 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.  
Dt2225 “But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.  
Dt2226 But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor,  
Dt2227 because he met her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her.  
Dt2228 “If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,  
Dt2229 then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.  
Dt2230 “A man shall not take his father’s wife, so that he does not uncover his father’s nakedness.  
Dt2301 “No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the LORD.  
Dt2302 “No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD.  
Dt2303 “No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the LORD forever,  
Dt2304 because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.  
Dt2305 But the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you.  
Dt2306 You shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.  
Dt2307 “You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his land.  
Dt2308 Children born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the LORD.  
Dt2309 “When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.  
Dt2310 “If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he shall go outside the camp. He shall not come inside the camp,  
Dt2311 but when evening comes, he shall bathe himself in water, and as the sun sets, he may come inside the camp.  
Dt2312 “You shall have a place outside the camp, and you shall go out to it.  
Dt2313 And you shall have a trowel with your tools, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig a hole with it and turn back and cover up your excrement.  
Dt2314 Because the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and to give up your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy, so that he may not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.  
Dt2315 “You shall not give up to his master a slave who has escaped from his master to you.  
Dt2316 He shall dwell with you, in your midst, in the place that he shall choose within one of your towns, wherever it suits him. You shall not wrong him.  
Dt2317 “None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute.  
Dt2318 You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the LORD your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the LORD your God.  
Dt2319 “You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest.  
Dt2320 You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.  
Dt2321 “If you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay fulfilling it, for the LORD your God will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.  
Dt2322 But if you refrain from vowing, you will not be guilty of sin.  
Dt2323 You shall be careful to do what has passed your lips, for you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth.  
Dt2324 “If you go into your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you shall not put any in your bag.  
Dt2325 If you go into your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor’s standing grain.  
Dt2401 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,  
Dt2402 and if she goes and becomes another man’s wife,  
Dt2403 and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife,  
Dt2404 then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the LORD. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.  
Dt2405 “When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.  
Dt2406 “No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.  
Dt2407 “If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.  
Dt2408 “Take care, in a case of leprous disease, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests shall direct you. As I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.  
Dt2409 Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt.  
Dt2410 “When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not go into his house to collect his pledge.  
Dt2411 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.  
Dt2412 And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.  
Dt2413 You shall restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you. And it shall be righteousness for you before the LORD your God.  
Dt2414 “You shall not oppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns.  
Dt2415 You shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), lest he cry against you to the LORD, and you be guilty of sin.  
Dt2416 “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.  
Dt2417 “You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow’s garment in pledge,  
Dt2418 but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this.  
Dt2419 “When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.  
Dt2420 When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.  
Dt2421 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not strip it afterward. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.  
Dt2422 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this.  
Dt2501 “If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,  
Dt2502 then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense.  
Dt2503 Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.  
Dt2504 “You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.  
Dt2505 “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.  
Dt2506 And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.  
Dt2507 And if the man does not wish to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to perpetuate his brother’s name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’  
Dt2508 Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, ‘I do not wish to take her,’  
Dt2509 then his brother’s wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’  
Dt2510 And the name of his house shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.’  
Dt2511 “When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts,  
Dt2512 then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.  
Dt2513 “You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.  
Dt2514 You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.  
Dt2515 A full and fair weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.  
Dt2516 For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are an abomination to the LORD your God.  
Dt2517 “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt,  
Dt2518 how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God.  
Dt2519 Therefore when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.  
Dt2601 “When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it,  
Dt2602 you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that the LORD your God will choose, to make his name to dwell there.  
Dt2603 And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD swore to our fathers to give us.’  
Dt2604 Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.  
Dt2605 “And you shall make response before the LORD your God, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.  
Dt2606 And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.  
Dt2607 Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.  
Dt2608 And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror, with signs and wonders.  
Dt2609 And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.  
Dt2610 And behold, now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O LORD, have given me.’ And you shall set it down before the LORD your God and worship before the LORD your God.  
Dt2611 And you shall rejoice in all the good that the LORD your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.  
Dt2612 “When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, which is the year of tithing, giving it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your towns and be filled,  
Dt2613 then you shall say before the LORD your God, ‘I have removed the sacred portion out of my house, and moreover, I have given it to the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all your commandment that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, nor have I forgotten them.  
Dt2614 I have not eaten of the tithe while I was mourning, or removed any of it while I was unclean, or offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.  
Dt2615 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.’  
Dt2616 “This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.  
Dt2617 You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.  
Dt2618 And the LORD has declared today that you are a people for his treasured possession, as he has promised you, and that you are to keep all his commandments,  
Dt2619 and that he will set you in praise and in fame and in honor high above all nations that he has made, and that you shall be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised.”  
Dt2701 Now Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep the whole commandment that I command you today.  
Dt2702 And on the day you cross over the Jordan to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, you shall set up large stones and plaster them with plaster.  
Dt2703 And you shall write on them all the words of this law, when you cross over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.  
Dt2704 And when you have crossed over the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, concerning which I command you today, on Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.  
Dt2705 And there you shall build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You shall wield no iron tool on them;  
Dt2706 you shall build an altar to the LORD your God of uncut stones. And you shall offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God,  
Dt2707 and you shall sacrifice peace offerings and shall eat there, and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God.  
Dt2708 And you shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.”  
Dt2709 Then Moses and the Levitical priests said to all Israel, “Keep silence and hear, O Israel: this day you have become the people of the LORD your God.  
Dt2710 You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.”  
Dt2711 That day Moses charged the people, saying,  
Dt2712 “When you have crossed over the Jordan, these shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.  
Dt2713 And these shall stand on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.  
Dt2714 And the Levites shall declare to all the men of Israel in a loud voice:  
Dt2715 “‘Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the LORD, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’  
Dt2716 “‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’  
Dt2717 “‘Cursed be anyone who moves his neighbor’s landmark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’  
Dt2718 “‘Cursed be anyone who misleads a blind man on the road.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’  
Dt2719 “‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’  
Dt2720 “‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his father’s wife, because he has uncovered his father’s nakedness.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’  
Dt2721 “‘Cursed be anyone who lies with any kind of animal.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’  
Dt2722 “‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’  
Dt2723 “‘Cursed be anyone who lies with his mother-in-law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’  
Dt2724 “‘Cursed be anyone who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’  
Dt2725 “‘Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’  
Dt2726 “‘Cursed be anyone who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’  
Dt2801 “And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.  
Dt2802 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God.  
Dt2803 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.  
Dt2804 Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.  
Dt2805 Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.  
Dt2806 Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.  
Dt2807 “The LORD will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.  
Dt2808 The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you undertake. And he will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.  
Dt2809 The LORD will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in his ways.  
Dt2810 And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they shall be afraid of you.  
Dt2811 And the LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.  
Dt2812 The LORD will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.  
Dt2813 And the LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them,  
Dt2814 and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.  
Dt2815 “But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.  
Dt2816 Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.  
Dt2817 Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.  
Dt2818 Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock.  
Dt2819 Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.  
Dt2820 “The LORD will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me.  
Dt2821 The LORD will make the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.  
Dt2822 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish.  
Dt2823 And the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron.  
Dt2824 The LORD will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.  
Dt2825 “The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.  
Dt2826 And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away.  
Dt2827 The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed.  
Dt2828 The LORD will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind,  
Dt2829 and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.  
Dt2830 You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit.  
Dt2831 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you.  
Dt2832 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, but you shall be helpless.  
Dt2833 A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually,  
Dt2834 so that you are driven mad by the sights that your eyes see.  
Dt2835 The LORD will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.  
Dt2836 “The LORD will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.  
Dt2837 And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.  
Dt2838 You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it.  
Dt2839 You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them.  
Dt2840 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.  
Dt2841 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity.  
Dt2842 The cricket shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground.  
Dt2843 The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.  
Dt2844 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.  
Dt2845 “All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you.  
Dt2846 They shall be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever.  
Dt2847 Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things,  
Dt2848 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.  
Dt2849 The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand,  
Dt2850 a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young.  
Dt2851 It shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.  
Dt2852 “They shall besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the LORD your God has given you.  
Dt2853 And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.  
Dt2854 The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces, and to the last of the children whom he has left,  
Dt2855 so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns.  
Dt2856 The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces, to her son and to her daughter,  
Dt2857 her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.  
Dt2858 “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the LORD your God,  
Dt2859 then the LORD will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting.  
Dt2860 And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you.  
Dt2861 Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the LORD will bring upon you, until you are destroyed.  
Dt2862 Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God.  
Dt2863 And as the LORD took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the LORD will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.  
Dt2864 “And the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.  
Dt2865 And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the LORD will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul.  
Dt2866 Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life.  
Dt2867 In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and the sights that your eyes shall see.  
Dt2868 And the LORD will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”  
Dt2901 These are the words of the covenant that the LORD commanded Moses to make with the people of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he had made with them at Horeb.  
Dt2902 And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: “You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,  
Dt2903 the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.  
Dt2904 But to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.  
Dt2905 I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.  
Dt2906 You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.  
Dt2907 And when you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, but we defeated them.  
Dt2908 We took their land and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of the Manassites.  
Dt2909 Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.  
Dt2910 “You are standing today, all of you, before the LORD your God: the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,  
Dt2911 your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water,  
Dt2912 so that you may enter into the sworn covenant of the LORD your God, which the LORD your God is making with you today,  
Dt2913 that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.  
Dt2914 It is not with you alone that I am making this sworn covenant,  
Dt2915 but with whoever is standing here with us today before the LORD our God, and with whoever is not here with us today.  
Dt2916 “You know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed.  
Dt2917 And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.  
Dt2918 Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,  
Dt2919 one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.’ This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.  
Dt2920 The LORD will not be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the LORD and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and the curses written in this book will settle upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.  
Dt2921 And the LORD will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for calamity, in accordance with all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.  
Dt2922 And the next generation, your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, will say, when they see the afflictions of that land and the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it sick—  
Dt2923 the whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger and wrath—  
Dt2924 all the nations will say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?’  
Dt2925 Then people will say, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,  
Dt2926 and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them.  
Dt2927 Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, bringing upon it all the curses written in this book,  
Dt2928 and the LORD uprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and cast them into another land, as they are this day.’  
Dt2929 “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.  
Dt3001 “And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,  
Dt3002 and return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul,  
Dt3003 then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you.  
Dt3004 If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and from there he will take you.  
Dt3005 And the LORD your God will bring you into the land that your fathers possessed, that you may possess it. And he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers.  
Dt3006 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.  
Dt3007 And the LORD your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you.  
Dt3008 And you shall again obey the voice of the LORD and keep all his commandments that I command you today.  
Dt3009 The LORD your God will make you abundantly prosperous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your cattle and in the fruit of your ground. For the LORD will again take delight in prospering you, as he took delight in your fathers,  
Dt3010 when you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that are written in this Book of the Law, when you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.  
Dt3011 “For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.  
Dt3012 It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’  
Dt3013 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?’  
Dt3014 But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.  
Dt3015 “See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil.  
Dt3016 If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you today, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.  
Dt3017 But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them,  
Dt3018 I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess.  
Dt3019 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,  
Dt3020 loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”  
Dt3101 So Moses continued to speak these words to all Israel.  
Dt3102 And he said to them, “I am 120 years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. The LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’  
Dt3103 The LORD your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the LORD has spoken.  
Dt3104 And the LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them.  
Dt3105 And the LORD will give them over to you, and you shall do to them according to the whole commandment that I have commanded you.  
Dt3106 Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”  
Dt3107 Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land that the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall put them in possession of it.  
Dt3108 It is the LORD who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”  
Dt3109 Then Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.  
Dt3110 And Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at the Feast of Booths,  
Dt3111 when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.  
Dt3112 Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do all the words of this law,  
Dt3113 and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”  
Dt3114 And the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, the days approach when you must die. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may commission him.” And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.  
Dt3115 And the LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud. And the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance of the tent.  
Dt3116 And the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.  
Dt3117 Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?’  
Dt3118 And I will surely hide my face in that day because of all the evil that they have done, because they have turned to other gods.  
Dt3119 “Now therefore write this song and teach it to the people of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the people of Israel.  
Dt3120 For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.  
Dt3121 And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give.”  
Dt3122 So Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the people of Israel.  
Dt3123 And the LORD commissioned Joshua the son of Nun and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall bring the people of Israel into the land that I swore to give them. I will be with you.”  
Dt3124 When Moses had finished writing the words of this law in a book to the very end,  
Dt3125 Moses commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD,  
Dt3126 “Take this Book of the Law and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.  
Dt3127 For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are. Behold, even today while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the LORD. How much more after my death!  
Dt3128 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to witness against them.  
Dt3129 For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And in the days to come evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger through the work of your hands.”  
Dt3130 Then Moses spoke the words of this song until they were finished, in the ears of all the assembly of Israel:  
Dt3201 “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.  
Dt3202 May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender grass, and like showers upon the herb.  
Dt3203 For I will proclaim the name of the LORD; ascribe greatness to our God!  
Dt3204 “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.  
Dt3205 They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation.  
Dt3206 Do you thus repay the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?  
Dt3207 Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.  
Dt3208 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.  
Dt3209 But the LORD’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.  
Dt3210 “He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.  
Dt3211 Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions,  
Dt3212 the LORD alone guided him, no foreign god was with him.  
Dt3213 He made him ride on the high places of the land, and he ate the produce of the field, and he suckled him with honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.  
Dt3214 Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of Bashan and goats, with the very finest of the wheat— and you drank foaming wine made from the blood of the grape.  
Dt3215 “But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.  
Dt3216 They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger.  
Dt3217 They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded.  
Dt3218 You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.  
Dt3219 “The LORD saw it and spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.  
Dt3220 And he said, ‘I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.  
Dt3221 They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.  
Dt3222 For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.  
Dt3223 “‘And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them;  
Dt3224 they shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured by plague and poisonous pestilence; I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with the venom of things that crawl in the dust.  
Dt3225 Outdoors the sword shall bereave, and indoors terror, for young man and woman alike, the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.  
Dt3226 I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces; I will wipe them from human memory,”  
Dt3227 had I not feared provocation by the enemy, lest their adversaries should misunderstand, lest they should say, “Our hand is triumphant, it was not the LORD who did all this.”’  
Dt3228 “For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.  
Dt3229 If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern their latter end!  
Dt3230 How could one have chased a thousand, and two have put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had given them up?  
Dt3231 For their rock is not as our Rock; our enemies are by themselves.  
Dt3232 For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter;  
Dt3233 their wine is the poison of serpents and the cruel venom of asps.  
Dt3234 “‘Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?  
Dt3235 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.’  
Dt3236 For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.  
Dt3237 Then he will say, ‘Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,  
Dt3238 who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you; let them be your protection!  
Dt3239 “‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.  
Dt3240 For I lift up my hand to heaven and swear, As I live forever,  
Dt3241 if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.  
Dt3242 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh— with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.’  
Dt3243 “Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, all gods, for he avenges the blood of his children and takes vengeance on his adversaries. He repays those who hate him and cleanses his people’s land.”  
Dt3244 Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.  
Dt3245 And when Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel,  
Dt3246 he said to them, “Take to heart all the words by which I am warning you today, that you may command them to your children, that they may be careful to do all the words of this law.  
Dt3247 For it is no empty word for you, but your very life, and by this word you shall live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess.”  
Dt3248 That very day the LORD spoke to Moses,  
Dt3249 “Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel for a possession.  
Dt3250 And die on the mountain which you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,  
Dt3251 because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel.  
Dt3252 For you shall see the land before you, but you shall not go there, into the land that I am giving to the people of Israel.”  
Dt3301 This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.  
Dt3302 He said, “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran; he came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with flaming fire at his right hand.  
Dt3303 Yes, he loved his people, all his holy ones were in his hand; so they followed in your steps, receiving direction from you,  
Dt3304 when Moses commanded us a law, as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.  
Dt3305 Thus the LORD became king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.  
Dt3306 “Let Reuben live, and not die, but let his men be few.”  
Dt3307 And this he said of Judah: “Hear, O LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him in to his people. With your hands contend for him, and be a help against his adversaries.”  
Dt3308 And of Levi he said, “Give to Levi your Thummim, and your Urim to your godly one, whom you tested at Massah, with whom you quarreled at the waters of Meribah;  
Dt3309 who said of his father and mother, ‘I regard them not’; he disowned his brothers and ignored his children. For they observed your word and kept your covenant.  
Dt3310 They shall teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law; they shall put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.  
Dt3311 Bless, O LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; crush the loins of his adversaries, of those who hate him, that they rise not again.”  
Dt3312 Of Benjamin he said, “The beloved of the LORD dwells in safety. The High God surrounds him all day long, and dwells between his shoulders.”  
Dt3313 And of Joseph he said, “Blessed by the LORD be his land, with the choicest gifts of heaven above, and of the deep that crouches beneath,  
Dt3314 with the choicest fruits of the sun and the rich yield of the months,  
Dt3315 with the finest produce of the ancient mountains and the abundance of the everlasting hills,  
Dt3316 with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwells in the bush. May these rest on the head of Joseph, on the pate of him who is prince among his brothers.  
Dt3317 A firstborn bull—he has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall gore the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”  
Dt3318 And of Zebulun he said, “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and Issachar, in your tents.  
Dt3319 They shall call peoples to their mountain; there they offer right sacrifices; for they draw from the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand.”  
Dt3320 And of Gad he said, “Blessed be he who enlarges Gad! Gad crouches like a lion; he tears off arm and scalp.  
Dt3321 He chose the best of the land for himself, for there a commander’s portion was reserved; and he came with the heads of the people, with Israel he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments for Israel.”  
Dt3322 And of Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s cub that leaps from Bashan.”  
Dt3323 And of Naphtali he said, “O Naphtali, sated with favor, and full of the blessing of the LORD, possess the lake and the south.”  
Dt3324 And of Asher he said, “Most blessed of sons be Asher; let him be the favorite of his brothers, and let him dip his foot in oil.  
Dt3325 Your bars shall be iron and bronze, and as your days, so shall your strength be.  
Dt3326 “There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty.  
Dt3327 The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, ‘Destroy.’  
Dt3328 So Israel lived in safety, Jacob lived alone, in a land of grain and wine, whose heavens drop down dew.  
Dt3329 Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, and the sword of your triumph! Your enemies shall come fawning to you, and you shall tread upon their backs.”  
Dt3401 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan,  
Dt3402 all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea,  
Dt3403 the Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.  
Dt3404 And the LORD said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.”  
Dt3405 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD,  
Dt3406 and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but no one knows the place of his burial to this day.  
Dt3407 Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.  
Dt3408 And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.  
Dt3409 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.  
Dt3410 And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,  
Dt3411 none like him for all the signs and the wonders that the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land,  
Dt3412 and for all the mighty power and all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.  
Jo0101 After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant,  
Jo0102 “Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.  
Jo0103 Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.  
Jo0104 From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.  
Jo0105 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.  
Jo0106 Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.  
Jo0107 Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.  
Jo0108 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.  
Jo0109 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”  
Jo0110 And Joshua commanded the officers of the people,  
Jo0111 “Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare your provisions, for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.’”  
Jo0112 And to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh Joshua said,  
Jo0113 “Remember the word that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, ‘The LORD your God is providing you a place of rest and will give you this land.’  
Jo0114 Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land that Moses gave you beyond the Jordan, but all the men of valor among you shall pass over armed before your brothers and shall help them,  
Jo0115 until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as he has to you, and they also take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and shall possess it, the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.”  
Jo0116 And they answered Joshua, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.  
Jo0117 Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. Only may the LORD your God be with you, as he was with Moses!  
Jo0118 Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”  
Jo0201 And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there.  
Jo0202 And it was told to the king of Jericho, “Behold, men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land.”  
Jo0203 Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land.”  
Jo0204 But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. And she said, “True, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.  
Jo0205 And when the gate was about to be closed at dark, the men went out. I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them.”  
Jo0206 But she had brought them up to the roof and hid them with the stalks of flax that she had laid in order on the roof.  
Jo0207 So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords. And the gate was shut as soon as the pursuers had gone out.  
Jo0208 Before the men lay down, she came up to them on the roof  
Jo0209 and said to the men, “I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.  
Jo0210 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction.  
Jo0211 And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the LORD your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.  
Jo0212 Now then, please swear to me by the LORD that, as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a sure sign  
Jo0213 that you will save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death.”  
Jo0214 And the men said to her, “Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the LORD gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.”  
Jo0215 Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she lived in the wall.  
Jo0216 And she said to them, “Go into the hills, or the pursuers will encounter you, and hide there three days until the pursuers have returned. Then afterward you may go your way.”  
Jo0217 The men said to her, “We will be guiltless with respect to this oath of yours that you have made us swear.  
Jo0218 Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.  
Jo0219 Then if anyone goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we shall be guiltless. But if a hand is laid on anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head.  
Jo0220 But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless with respect to your oath that you have made us swear.”  
Jo0221 And she said, “According to your words, so be it.” Then she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord in the window.  
Jo0222 They departed and went into the hills and remained there three days until the pursuers returned, and the pursuers searched all along the way and found nothing.  
Jo0223 Then the two men returned. They came down from the hills and passed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and they told him all that had happened to them.  
Jo0224 And they said to Joshua, “Truly the LORD has given all the land into our hands. And also, all the inhabitants of the land melt away because of us.”  
Jo0301 Then Joshua rose early in the morning and they set out from Shittim. And they came to the Jordan, he and all the people of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.  
Jo0302 At the end of three days the officers went through the camp  
Jo0303 and commanded the people, “As soon as you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it.  
Jo0304 Yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about 2,000 cubits in length. Do not come near it, in order that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.”  
Jo0305 Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”  
Jo0306 And Joshua said to the priests, “Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on before the people.” So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.  
Jo0307 The LORD said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.  
Jo0308 And as for you, command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’”  
Jo0309 And Joshua said to the people of Israel, “Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God.”  
Jo0310 And Joshua said, “Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.  
Jo0311 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into the Jordan.  
Jo0312 Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man.  
Jo0313 And when the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap.”  
Jo0314 So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,  
Jo0315 and as soon as those bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest),  
Jo0316 the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.  
Jo0317 Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.  
Jo0401 When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,  
Jo0402 “Take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man,  
Jo0403 and command them, saying, ‘Take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests’ feet stood firmly, and bring them over with you and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight.’”  
Jo0404 Then Joshua called the twelve men from the people of Israel, whom he had appointed, a man from each tribe.  
Jo0405 And Joshua said to them, “Pass on before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel,  
Jo0406 that this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’  
Jo0407 then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial forever.”  
Jo0408 And the people of Israel did just as Joshua commanded and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, just as the LORD told Joshua. And they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged and laid them down there.  
Jo0409 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.  
Jo0410 For the priests bearing the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan until everything was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to tell the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people passed over in haste.  
Jo0411 And when all the people had finished passing over, the ark of the LORD and the priests passed over before the people.  
Jo0412 The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before the people of Israel, as Moses had told them.  
Jo0413 About 40,000 ready for war passed over before the LORD for battle, to the plains of Jericho.  
Jo0414 On that day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they stood in awe of him just as they had stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life.  
Jo0415 And the LORD said to Joshua,  
Jo0416 “Command the priests bearing the ark of the testimony to come up out of the Jordan.”  
Jo0417 So Joshua commanded the priests, “Come up out of the Jordan.”  
Jo0418 And when the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up on dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before.  
Jo0419 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped at Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.  
Jo0420 And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.  
Jo0421 And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’  
Jo0422 then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.’  
Jo0423 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over,  
Jo0424 so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever.”  
Jo0501 As soon as all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people of Israel.  
Jo0502 At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.”  
Jo0503 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.  
Jo0504 And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they had come out of Egypt.  
Jo0505 Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.  
Jo0506 For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.  
Jo0507 So it was their children, whom he raised up in their place, that Joshua circumcised. For they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.  
Jo0508 When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed.  
Jo0509 And the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.  
Jo0510 While the people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal, they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho.  
Jo0511 And the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.  
Jo0512 And the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land. And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.  
Jo0513 When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?”  
Jo0514 And he said, “No; but I am the commander of the army of the LORD. Now I have come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”  
Jo0515 And the commander of the LORD’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.  
Jo0601 Now Jericho was shut up inside and outside because of the people of Israel. None went out, and none came in.  
Jo0602 And the LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and mighty men of valor.  
Jo0603 You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days.  
Jo0604 Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.  
Jo0605 And when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, everyone straight before him.”  
Jo0606 So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD.”  
Jo0607 And he said to the people, “Go forward. March around the city and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the LORD.”  
Jo0608 And just as Joshua had commanded the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the LORD went forward, blowing the trumpets, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD following them.  
Jo0609 The armed men were walking before the priests who were blowing the trumpets, and the rear guard was walking after the ark, while the trumpets blew continually.  
Jo0610 But Joshua commanded the people, “You shall not shout or make your voice heard, neither shall any word go out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.”  
Jo0611 So he caused the ark of the LORD to circle the city, going about it once. And they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp.  
Jo0612 Then Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD.  
Jo0613 And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD walked on, and they blew the trumpets continually. And the armed men were walking before them, and the rear guard was walking after the ark of the LORD, while the trumpets blew continually.  
Jo0614 And the second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did for six days.  
Jo0615 On the seventh day they rose early, at the dawn of day, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times.  
Jo0616 And at the seventh time, when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for the LORD has given you the city.  
Jo0617 And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.  
Jo0618 But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it.  
Jo0619 But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron, are holy to the LORD; they shall go into the treasury of the LORD.”  
Jo0620 So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city.  
Jo0621 Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.  
Jo0622 But to the two men who had spied out the land, Joshua said, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her, as you swore to her.”  
Jo0623 So the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her. And they brought all her relatives and put them outside the camp of Israel.  
Jo0624 And they burned the city with fire, and everything in it. Only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.  
Jo0625 But Rahab the prostitute and her father’s household and all who belonged to her, Joshua saved alive. And she has lived in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.  
Jo0626 Joshua laid an oath on them at that time, saying, “Cursed before the LORD be the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho. “At the cost of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest son shall he set up its gates.”  
Jo0627 So the LORD was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land.  
Jo0701 But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the LORD burned against the people of Israel.  
Jo0702 Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai.  
Jo0703 And they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are few.”  
Jo0704 So about three thousand men went up there from the people. And they fled before the men of Ai,  
Jo0705 and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six of their men and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted and became as water.  
Jo0706 Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads.  
Jo0707 And Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord GOD, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!  
Jo0708 O Lord, what can I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!  
Jo0709 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?”  
Jo0710 The LORD said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face?  
Jo0711 Israel has sinned; they have transgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings.  
Jo0712 Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.  
Jo0713 Get up! Consecrate the people and say, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the LORD, God of Israel, “There are devoted things in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you.”  
Jo0714 In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. And the tribe that the LORD takes by lot shall come near by clans. And the clan that the LORD takes shall come near by households. And the household that the LORD takes shall come near man by man.  
Jo0715 And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done an outrageous thing in Israel.’”  
Jo0716 So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought Israel near tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was taken.  
Jo0717 And he brought near the clans of Judah, and the clan of the Zerahites was taken. And he brought near the clan of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was taken.  
Jo0718 And he brought near his household man by man, and Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.  
Jo0719 Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD God of Israel and give praise to him. And tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.”  
Jo0720 And Achan answered Joshua, “Truly I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and this is what I did:  
Jo0721 when I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels, then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”  
Jo0722 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and behold, it was hidden in his tent with the silver underneath.  
Jo0723 And they took them out of the tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the people of Israel. And they laid them down before the LORD.  
Jo0724 And Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver and the cloak and the bar of gold, and his sons and daughters and his oxen and donkeys and sheep and his tent and all that he had. And they brought them up to the Valley of Achor.  
Jo0725 And Joshua said, “Why did you bring trouble on us? The LORD brings trouble on you today.” And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.  
Jo0726 And they raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Then the LORD turned from his burning anger. Therefore, to this day the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor.  
Jo0801 And the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not fear and do not be dismayed. Take all the fighting men with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, his city, and his land.  
Jo0802 And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city, behind it.”  
Jo0803 So Joshua and all the fighting men arose to go up to Ai. And Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out by night.  
Jo0804 And he commanded them, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you remain ready.  
Jo0805 And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out against us just as before, we shall flee before them.  
Jo0806 And they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city. For they will say, ‘They are fleeing from us, just as before.’ So we will flee before them.  
Jo0807 Then you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will give it into your hand.  
Jo0808 And as soon as you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire. You shall do according to the word of the LORD. See, I have commanded you.”  
Jo0809 So Joshua sent them out. And they went to the place of ambush and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai, but Joshua spent that night among the people.  
Jo0810 Joshua arose early in the morning and mustered the people and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.  
Jo0811 And all the fighting men who were with him went up and drew near before the city and encamped on the north side of Ai, with a ravine between them and Ai.  
Jo0812 He took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.  
Jo0813 So they stationed the forces, the main encampment that was north of the city and its rear guard west of the city. But Joshua spent that night in the valley.  
Jo0814 And as soon as the king of Ai saw this, he and all his people, the men of the city, hurried and went out early to the appointed place toward the Arabah to meet Israel in battle. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.  
Jo0815 And Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them and fled in the direction of the wilderness.  
Jo0816 So all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and as they pursued Joshua they were drawn away from the city.  
Jo0817 Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. They left the city open and pursued Israel.  
Jo0818 Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.  
Jo0819 And the men in the ambush rose quickly out of their place, and as soon as he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it. And they hurried to set the city on fire.  
Jo0820 So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that, for the people who fled to the wilderness turned back against the pursuers.  
Jo0821 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had captured the city, and that the smoke of the city went up, then they turned back and struck down the men of Ai.  
Jo0822 And the others came out from the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. And Israel struck them down, until there was left none that survived or escaped.  
Jo0823 But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him near to Joshua.  
Jo0824 When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the edge of the sword.  
Jo0825 And all who fell that day, both men and women, were 12,000, all the people of Ai.  
Jo0826 But Joshua did not draw back his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had devoted all the inhabitants of Ai to destruction.  
Jo0827 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as their plunder, according to the word of the LORD that he commanded Joshua.  
Jo0828 So Joshua burned Ai and made it forever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day.  
Jo0829 And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. And at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.  
Jo0830 At that time Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,  
Jo0831 just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, “an altar of uncut stones, upon which no man has wielded an iron tool.” And they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings.  
Jo0832 And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.  
Jo0833 And all Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel.  
Jo0834 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.  
Jo0835 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them.  
Jo0901 As soon as all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this,  
Jo0902 they gathered together as one to fight against Joshua and Israel.  
Jo0903 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,  
Jo0904 they on their part acted with cunning and went and made ready provisions and took worn- out sacks for their donkeys, and wineskins, worn-out and torn and mended,  
Jo0905 with worn-out, patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes. And all their provisions were dry and crumbly.  
Jo0906 And they went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant country, so now make a covenant with us.”  
Jo0907 But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?”  
Jo0908 They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” And Joshua said to them, “Who are you? And where do you come from?”  
Jo0909 They said to him, “From a very distant country your servants have come, because of the name of the LORD your God. For we have heard a report of him, and all that he did in Egypt,  
Jo0910 and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon the king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.  
Jo0911 So our elders and all the inhabitants of our country said to us, ‘Take provisions in your hand for the journey and go to meet them and say to them, “We are your servants. Come now, make a covenant with us.”’  
Jo0912 Here is our bread. It was still warm when we took it from our houses as our food for the journey on the day we set out to come to you, but now, behold, it is dry and crumbly.  
Jo0913 These wineskins were new when we filled them, and behold, they have burst. And these garments and sandals of ours are worn out from the very long journey.”  
Jo0914 So the men took some of their provisions, but did not ask counsel from the LORD.  
Jo0915 And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.  
Jo0916 At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors and that they lived among them.  
Jo0917 And the people of Israel set out and reached their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.  
Jo0918 But the people of Israel did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. Then all the congregation murmured against the leaders.  
Jo0919 But all the leaders said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them.  
Jo0920 This we will do to them: let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath that we swore to them.”  
Jo0921 And the leaders said to them, “Let them live.” So they became cutters of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation, just as the leaders had said of them.  
Jo0922 Joshua summoned them, and he said to them, “Why did you deceive us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you dwell among us?  
Jo0923 Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall never be anything but servants, cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”  
Jo0924 They answered Joshua, “Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the LORD your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you—so we feared greatly for our lives because of you and did this thing.  
Jo0925 And now, behold, we are in your hand. Whatever seems good and right in your sight to do to us, do it.”  
Jo0926 So he did this to them and delivered them out of the hand of the people of Israel, and they did not kill them.  
Jo0927 But Joshua made them that day cutters of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD, to this day, in the place that he should choose.  
Jo1001 As soon as Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, heard how Joshua had captured Ai and had devoted it to destruction, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,  
Jo1002 he feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were warriors.  
Jo1003 So Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,  
Jo1004 “Come up to me and help me, and let us strike Gibeon. For it has made peace with Joshua and with the people of Israel.”  
Jo1005 Then the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered their forces and went up with all their armies and encamped against Gibeon and made war against it.  
Jo1006 And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, “Do not relax your hand from your servants. Come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill country are gathered against us.”  
Jo1007 So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.  
Jo1008 And the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hands. Not a man of them shall stand before you.”  
Jo1009 So Joshua came upon them suddenly, having marched up all night from Gilgal.  
Jo1010 And the LORD threw them into a panic before Israel, who struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.  
Jo1011 And as they fled before Israel, while they were going down the ascent of Beth-horon, the LORD threw down large stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died because of the hailstones than the sons of Israel killed with the sword.  
Jo1012 At that time Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”  
Jo1013 And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.  
Jo1014 There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD heeded the voice of a man, for the LORD fought for Israel.  
Jo1015 So Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.  
Jo1016 These five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.  
Jo1017 And it was told to Joshua, “The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”  
Jo1018 And Joshua said, “Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave and set men by it to guard them,  
Jo1019 but do not stay there yourselves. Pursue your enemies; attack their rear guard. Do not let them enter their cities, for the LORD your God has given them into your hand.”  
Jo1020 When Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a great blow until they were wiped out, and when the remnant that remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,  
Jo1021 then all the people returned safe to Joshua in the camp at Makkedah. Not a man moved his tongue against any of the people of Israel.  
Jo1022 Then Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out to me from the cave.”  
Jo1023 And they did so, and brought those five kings out to him from the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.  
Jo1024 And when they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel and said to the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with him, “Come near; put your feet on the necks of these kings.” Then they came near and put their feet on their necks.  
Jo1025 And Joshua said to them, “Do not be afraid or dismayed; be strong and courageous. For thus the LORD will do to all your enemies against whom you fight.”  
Jo1026 And afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he hanged them on five trees. And they hung on the trees until evening.  
Jo1027 But at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they set large stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.  
Jo1028 As for Makkedah, Joshua captured it on that day and struck it, and its king, with the edge of the sword. He devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. And he did to the king of Makkedah just as he had done to the king of Jericho.  
Jo1029 Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah.  
Jo1030 And the LORD gave it also and its king into the hand of Israel. And he struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it; he left none remaining in it. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.  
Jo1031 Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Libnah to Lachish and laid siege to it and fought against it.  
Jo1032 And the LORD gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he captured it on the second day and struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it, as he had done to Libnah.  
Jo1033 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish. And Joshua struck him and his people, until he left none remaining.  
Jo1034 Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Lachish to Eglon. And they laid siege to it and fought against it.  
Jo1035 And they captured it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. And he devoted every person in it to destruction that day, as he had done to Lachish.  
Jo1036 Then Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron. And they fought against it  
Jo1037 and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king and its towns, and every person in it. He left none remaining, as he had done to Eglon, and devoted it to destruction and every person in it.  
Jo1038 Then Joshua and all Israel with him turned back to Debir and fought against it  
Jo1039 and he captured it with its king and all its towns. And they struck them with the edge of the sword and devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. Just as he had done to Hebron and to Libnah and its king, so he did to Debir and to its king.  
Jo1040 So Joshua struck the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as the LORD God of Israel commanded.  
Jo1041 And Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea as far as Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, as far as Gibeon.  
Jo1042 And Joshua captured all these kings and their land at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.  
Jo1043 Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.  
Jo1101 When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard of this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,  
Jo1102 and to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west,  
Jo1103 to the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.  
Jo1104 And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.  
Jo1105 And all these kings joined their forces and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.  
Jo1106 And the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them, slain, to Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”  
Jo1107 So Joshua and all his warriors came suddenly against them by the waters of Merom and fell upon them.  
Jo1108 And the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. And they struck them until he left none remaining.  
Jo1109 And Joshua did to them just as the LORD said to him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.  
Jo1110 And Joshua turned back at that time and captured Hazor and struck its king with the sword, for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms.  
Jo1111 And they struck with the sword all who were in it, devoting them to destruction; there was none left that breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire.  
Jo1112 And all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua captured, and struck them with the edge of the sword, devoting them to destruction, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.  
Jo1113 But none of the cities that stood on mounds did Israel burn, except Hazor alone; that Joshua burned.  
Jo1114 And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the people of Israel took for their plunder. But every person they struck with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any who breathed.  
Jo1115 Just as the LORD had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.  
Jo1116 So Joshua took all that land, the hill country and all the Negeb and all the land of Goshen and the lowland and the Arabah and the hill country of Israel and its lowland  
Jo1117 from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. And he captured all their kings and struck them and put them to death.  
Jo1118 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.  
Jo1119 There was not a city that made peace with the people of Israel except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took them all in battle.  
Jo1120 For it was the LORD’s doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, just as the LORD commanded Moses.  
Jo1121 And Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction with their cities.  
Jo1122 There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain.  
Jo1123 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.  
Jo1201 Now these are the kings of the land whom the people of Israel defeated and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all the Arabah eastward:  
Jo1202 Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the middle of the valley as far as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead,  
Jo1203 and the Arabah to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth- jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah;  
Jo1204 and Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei  
Jo1205 and ruled over Mount Hermon and Salecah and all Bashan to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon.  
Jo1206 Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the people of Israel defeated them. And Moses the servant of the LORD gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.  
Jo1207 And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments,  
Jo1208 in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites):  
Jo1209 the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;  
Jo1210 the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;  
Jo1211 the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;  
Jo1212 the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;  
Jo1213 the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;  
Jo1214 the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;  
Jo1215 the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;  
Jo1216 the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;  
Jo1217 the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;  
Jo1218 the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;  
Jo1219 the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;  
Jo1220 the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;  
Jo1221 the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;  
Jo1222 the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;  
Jo1223 the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Galilee, one;  
Jo1224 the king of Tirzah, one: in all, thirty-one kings.  
Jo1301 Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and the LORD said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to possess.  
Jo1302 This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites  
Jo1303 (from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim,  
Jo1304 in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of the Amorites,  
Jo1305 and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath,  
Jo1306 all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive them out from before the people of Israel. Only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.  
Jo1307 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”  
Jo1308 With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them:  
Jo1309 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon;  
Jo1310 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites;  
Jo1311 and Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;  
Jo1312 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); these Moses had struck and driven out.  
Jo1313 Yet the people of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.  
Jo1314 To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance. The offerings by fire to the LORD God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.  
Jo1315 And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the people of Reuben according to their clans.  
Jo1316 So their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba;  
Jo1317 with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; Dibon, and Bamoth- baal, and Beth-baal-meon,  
Jo1318 and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,  
Jo1319 and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,  
Jo1320 and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,  
Jo1321 that is, all the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses defeated with the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.  
Jo1322 Balaam also, the son of Beor, the one who practiced divination, was killed with the sword by the people of Israel among the rest of their slain.  
Jo1323 And the border of the people of Reuben was the Jordan as a boundary. This was the inheritance of the people of Reuben, according to their clans with their cities and villages.  
Jo1324 Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of Gad, to the people of Gad, according to their clans.  
Jo1325 Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of Rabbah,  
Jo1326 and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir,  
Jo1327 and in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of Chinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan.  
Jo1328 This is the inheritance of the people of Gad according to their clans, with their cities and villages.  
Jo1329 And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was allotted to the half-tribe of the people of Manasseh according to their clans.  
Jo1330 Their region extended from Mahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities,  
Jo1331 and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. These were allotted to the people of Machir the son of Manasseh for the half of the people of Machir according to their clans.  
Jo1332 These are the inheritances that Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho.  
Jo1333 But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the LORD God of Israel is their inheritance, just as he said to them.  
Jo1401 These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit.  
Jo1402 Their inheritance was by lot, just as the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine and one-half tribes.  
Jo1403 For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.  
Jo1404 For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance.  
Jo1405 The people of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses; they allotted the land.  
Jo1406 Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me.  
Jo1407 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.  
Jo1408 But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the LORD my God.  
Jo1409 And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’  
Jo1410 And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.  
Jo1411 I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.  
Jo1412 So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said.”  
Jo1413 Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.  
Jo1414 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.  
Jo1415 Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.  
Jo1501 The allotment for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans reached southward to the boundary of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin at the farthest south.  
Jo1502 And their south boundary ran from the end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that faces southward.  
Jo1503 It goes out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, passes along to Zin, and goes up south of Kadesh-barnea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, turns about to Karka,  
Jo1504 passes along to Azmon, goes out by the Brook of Egypt, and comes to its end at the sea. This shall be your south boundary.  
Jo1505 And the east boundary is the Salt Sea, to the mouth of the Jordan. And the boundary on the north side runs from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan.  
Jo1506 And the boundary goes up to Beth-hoglah and passes along north of Beth-arabah. And the boundary goes up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.  
Jo1507 And the boundary goes up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and so northward, turning toward Gilgal, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the valley. And the boundary passes along to the waters of En-shemesh and ends at En- rogel.  
Jo1508 Then the boundary goes up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem). And the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.  
Jo1509 Then the boundary extends from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and from there to the cities of Mount Ephron. Then the boundary bends around to Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).  
Jo1510 And the boundary circles west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passes along to the northern shoulder of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), and goes down to Beth- shemesh and passes along by Timnah.  
Jo1511 The boundary goes out to the shoulder of the hill north of Ekron, then the boundary bends around to Shikkeron and passes along to Mount Baalah and goes out to Jabneel. Then the boundary comes to an end at the sea.  
Jo1512 And the west boundary was the Great Sea with its coastline. This is the boundary around the people of Judah according to their clans.  
Jo1513 According to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).  
Jo1514 And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the descendants of Anak.  
Jo1515 And he went up from there against the inhabitants of Debir. Now the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher.  
Jo1516 And Caleb said, “Whoever strikes Kiriath-sepher and captures it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.”  
Jo1517 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.  
Jo1518 When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she got off her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”  
Jo1519 She said to him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have given me the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water.” And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.  
Jo1520 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans.  
Jo1521 The cities belonging to the tribe of the people of Judah in the extreme south, toward the boundary of Edom, were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,  
Jo1522 Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,  
Jo1523 Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,  
Jo1524 Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,  
Jo1525 Hazor-hadattah, Kerioth-hezron (that is, Hazor),  
Jo1526 Amam, Shema, Moladah,  
Jo1527 Hazar-gaddah, Heshmon, Beth-pelet,  
Jo1528 Hazar-shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,  
Jo1529 Baalah, Iim, Ezem,  
Jo1530 Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,  
Jo1531 Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,  
Jo1532 Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon: in all, twenty-nine cities with their villages.  
Jo1533 And in the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,  
Jo1534 Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, Enam,  
Jo1535 Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,  
Jo1536 Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, Gederothaim: fourteen cities with their villages.  
Jo1537 Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal-gad,  
Jo1538 Dilean, Mizpeh, Joktheel,  
Jo1539 Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,  
Jo1540 Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish,  
Jo1541 Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen cities with their villages.  
Jo1542 Libnah, Ether, Ashan,  
Jo1543       Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,     
Jo1544 Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages.  
Jo1545 Ekron, with its towns and its villages;  
Jo1546 from Ekron to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.  
Jo1547 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the Brook of Egypt, and the Great Sea with its coastline.  
Jo1548 And in the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,  
Jo1549 Dannah, Kiriath-sannah (that is, Debir),  
Jo1550 Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,  
Jo1551 Goshen, Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages.  
Jo1552 Arab, Dumah, Eshan,  
Jo1553 Janim, Beth-tappuah, Aphekah,  
Jo1554 Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior: nine cities with their villages.  
Jo1555 Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,  
Jo1556 Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,  
Jo1557 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah: ten cities with their villages.  
Jo1558 Halhul, Beth-zur, Gedor,  
Jo1559 Maarath, Beth-anoth, and Eltekon: six cities with their villages.  
Jo1560 Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah: two cities with their villages.  
Jo1561 In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah,  
Jo1562 Nibshan, the City of Salt, and Engedi: six cities with their villages.  
Jo1563 But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.  
Jo1601 The allotment of the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel.  
Jo1602 Then going from Bethel to Luz, it passes along to Ataroth, the territory of the Archites.  
Jo1603 Then it goes down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and it ends at the sea.  
Jo1604 The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance.  
Jo1605 The territory of the people of Ephraim by their clans was as follows: the boundary of their inheritance on the east was Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon,  
Jo1606 and the boundary goes from there to the sea. On the north is Michmethath. Then on the east the boundary turns around toward Taanath-shiloh and passes along beyond it on the east to Janoah,  
Jo1607 then it goes down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah, and touches Jericho, ending at the Jordan.  
Jo1608 From Tappuah the boundary goes westward to the brook Kanah and ends at the sea. Such is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Ephraim by their clans,  
Jo1609 together with the towns that were set apart for the people of Ephraim within the inheritance of the Manassites, all those towns with their villages.  
Jo1610 However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.  
Jo1701 Then allotment was made to the people of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war.  
Jo1702 And allotments were made to the rest of the people of Manasseh by their clans, Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These were the male descendants of Manasseh the son of Joseph, by their clans.  
Jo1703 Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, had no sons, but only daughters, and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.  
Jo1704 They approached Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the leaders and said, “The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance along with our brothers.” So according to the mouth of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.  
Jo1705 Thus there fell to Manasseh ten portions, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of the Jordan,  
Jo1706 because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance along with his sons. The land of Gilead was allotted to the rest of the people of Manasseh.  
Jo1707 The territory of Manasseh reached from Asher to Michmethath, which is east of Shechem. Then the boundary goes along southward to the inhabitants of En-tappuah.  
Jo1708 The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but the town of Tappuah on the boundary of Manasseh belonged to the people of Ephraim.  
Jo1709 Then the boundary went down to the brook Kanah. These cities, to the south of the brook, among the cities of Manasseh, belong to Ephraim. Then the boundary of Manasseh goes on the north side of the brook and ends at the sea,  
Jo1710 the land to the south being Ephraim’s and that to the north being Manasseh’s, with the sea forming its boundary. On the north Asher is reached, and on the east Issachar.  
Jo1711 Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath.  
Jo1712 Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.  
Jo1713 Now when the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.  
Jo1714 Then the people of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me but one lot and one portion as an inheritance, although I am a numerous people, since all along the LORD has blessed me?”  
Jo1715 And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”  
Jo1716 The people of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”  
Jo1717 Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, “You are a numerous people and have great power. You shall not have one allotment only,  
Jo1718 but the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”  
Jo1801 Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.  
Jo1802 There remained among the people of Israel seven tribes whose inheritance had not yet been apportioned.  
Jo1803 So Joshua said to the people of Israel, “How long will you put off going in to take possession of the land, which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you?  
Jo1804 Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them out that they may set out and go up and down the land. They shall write a description of it with a view to their inheritances, and then come to me.  
Jo1805 They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall continue in his territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall continue in their territory on the north.  
Jo1806 And you shall describe the land in seven divisions and bring the description here to me. And I will cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.  
Jo1807 The Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of the LORD is their heritage. And Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.”  
Jo1808 So the men arose and went, and Joshua charged those who went to write the description of the land, saying, “Go up and down in the land and write a description and return to me. And I will cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh.”  
Jo1809 So the men went and passed up and down in the land and wrote in a book a description of it by towns in seven divisions. Then they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh,  
Jo1810 and Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD. And there Joshua apportioned the land to the people of Israel, to each his portion.  
Jo1811 The lot of the tribe of the people of Benjamin according to its clans came up, and the territory allotted to it fell between the people of Judah and the people of Joseph.  
Jo1812 On the north side their boundary began at the Jordan. Then the boundary goes up to the shoulder north of Jericho, then up through the hill country westward, and it ends at the wilderness of Beth-aven.  
Jo1813 From there the boundary passes along southward in the direction of Luz, to the shoulder of Luz (that is, Bethel), then the boundary goes down to Ataroth- addar, on the mountain that lies south of Lower Beth-horon.  
Jo1814 Then the boundary goes in another direction, turning on the western side southward from the mountain that lies to the south, opposite Beth-horon, and it ends at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city belonging to the people of Judah. This forms the western side.  
Jo1815 And the southern side begins at the outskirts of Kiriath-jearim. And the boundary goes from there to Ephron, to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.  
Jo1816 Then the boundary goes down to the border of the mountain that overlooks the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is at the north end of the Valley of Rephaim. And it then goes down the Valley of Hinnom, south of the shoulder of the Jebusites, and downward to En-rogel.  
Jo1817 Then it bends in a northerly direction going on to En-shemesh, and from there goes to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim. Then it goes down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,  
Jo1818 and passing on to the north of the shoulder of Beth-arabah it goes down to the Arabah.  
Jo1819 Then the boundary passes on to the north of the shoulder of Beth-hoglah. And the boundary ends at the northern bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: this is the southern border.  
Jo1820 The Jordan forms its boundary on the eastern side. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin, according to their clans, boundary by boundary all around.  
Jo1821 Now the cities of the tribe of the people of Benjamin according to their clans were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek- keziz,  
Jo1822 Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,  
Jo1823 Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,  
Jo1824 Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, Geba—twelve cities with their villages:  
Jo1825 Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,  
Jo1826 Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah,  
Jo1827 Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,  
Jo1828 Zela, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah and Kiriath-jearim—fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin according to its clans.  
Jo1901 The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the people of Simeon, according to their clans, and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the people of Judah.  
Jo1902 And they had for their inheritance Beersheba, Sheba, Moladah,  
Jo1903   Hazar-shual, Balah, Ezem,   
Jo1904 Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,  
Jo1905 Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah,  
Jo1906 Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen—thirteen cities with their villages;  
Jo1907 Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—four cities with their villages,  
Jo1908 together with all the villages around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, Ramah of the Negeb. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Simeon according to their clans.  
Jo1909 The inheritance of the people of Simeon formed part of the territory of the people of Judah. Because the portion of the people of Judah was too large for them, the people of Simeon obtained an inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.  
Jo1910 The third lot came up for the people of Zebulun, according to their clans. And the territory of their inheritance reached as far as Sarid.  
Jo1911 Then their boundary goes up westward and on to Mareal and touches Dabbesheth, then the brook that is east of Jokneam.  
Jo1912 From Sarid it goes in the other direction eastward toward the sunrise to the boundary of Chisloth-tabor. From there it goes to Daberath, then up to Japhia.  
Jo1913 From there it passes along on the east toward the sunrise to Gath-hepher, to Eth- kazin, and going on to Rimmon it bends toward Neah,  
Jo1914 then on the north the boundary turns about to Hannathon, and it ends at the Valley of Iphtahel;  
Jo1915 and Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem—twelve cities with their villages.  
Jo1916 This is the inheritance of the people of Zebulun, according to their clans—these cities with their villages.  
Jo1917 The fourth lot came out for Issachar, for the people of Issachar, according to their clans.  
Jo1918 Their territory included Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,  
Jo1919 Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,  
Jo1920 Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez,  
Jo1921 Remeth, En-gannim, En-haddah, Beth-pazzez.  
Jo1922 The boundary also touches Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh, and its boundary ends at the Jordan—sixteen cities with their villages.  
Jo1923 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Issachar, according to their clans—the cities with their villages.  
Jo1924 The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the people of Asher according to their clans.  
Jo1925 Their territory included Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph,  
Jo1926 Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. On the west it touches Carmel and Shihor-libnath,  
Jo1927 then it turns eastward, it goes to Beth-dagon, and touches Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtahel northward to Beth-emek and Neiel. Then it continues in the north to Cabul,  
Jo1928 Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, Kanah, as far as Sidon the Great.  
Jo1929 Then the boundary turns to Ramah, reaching to the fortified city of Tyre. Then the boundary turns to Hosah, and it ends at the sea; Mahalab, Achzib,  
Jo1930 Ummah, Aphek and Rehob—twenty-two cities with their villages.  
Jo1931 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Asher according to their clans—these cities with their villages.  
Jo1932 The sixth lot came out for the people of Naphtali, for the people of Naphtali, according to their clans.  
Jo1933 And their boundary ran from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, and Adami-nekeb, and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum, and it ended at the Jordan.  
Jo1934 Then the boundary turns westward to Aznoth-tabor and goes from there to Hukkok, touching Zebulun at the south and Asher on the west and Judah on the east at the Jordan.  
Jo1935 The fortified cities are Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,  
Jo1936 Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,  
Jo1937 Kedesh, Edrei, En-hazor,  
Jo1938 Yiron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh—nineteen cities with their villages.  
Jo1939 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Naphtali according to their clans—the cities with their villages.  
Jo1940 The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the people of Dan, according to their clans.  
Jo1941 And the territory of its inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,  
Jo1942 Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,  
Jo1943 Elon, Timnah, Ekron,  
Jo1944 Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,  
Jo1945   Jehud, Bene-berak, Gath-rimmon,   
Jo1946 and Me-jarkon and Rakkon with the territory over against Joppa.  
Jo1947 When the territory of the people of Dan was lost to them, the people of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and after capturing it and striking it with the sword they took possession of it and settled in it, calling Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor.  
Jo1948 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Dan, according to their clans—these cities with their villages.  
Jo1949 When they had finished distributing the several territories of the land as inheritances, the people of Israel gave an inheritance among them to Joshua the son of Nun.  
Jo1950 By command of the LORD they gave him the city that he asked, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. And he rebuilt the city and settled in it.  
Jo1951 These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel distributed by lot at Shiloh before the LORD, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing the land.  
Jo2001 Then the LORD said to Joshua,  
Jo2002 “Say to the people of Israel, ‘Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,  
Jo2003 that the manslayer who strikes any person without intent or unknowingly may flee there. They shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.  
Jo2004 He shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and explain his case to the elders of that city. Then they shall take him into the city and give him a place, and he shall remain with them.  
Jo2005 And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not give up the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor unknowingly, and did not hate him in the past.  
Jo2006 And he shall remain in that city until he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time. Then the manslayer may return to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled.’”  
Jo2007 So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.  
Jo2008 And beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland, from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.  
Jo2009 These were the cities designated for all the people of Israel and for the stranger sojourning among them, that anyone who killed a person without intent could flee there, so that he might not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, till he stood before the congregation.  
Jo2101 Then the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel.  
Jo2102 And they said to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, “The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in, along with their pasturelands for our livestock.”  
Jo2103 So by command of the LORD the people of Israel gave to the Levites the following cities and pasturelands out of their inheritance.  
Jo2104 The lot came out for the clans of the Kohathites. So those Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest received by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin, thirteen cities.  
Jo2105 And the rest of the Kohathites received by lot from the clans of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.  
Jo2106 The Gershonites received by lot from the clans of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.  
Jo2107 The Merarites according to their clans received from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.  
Jo2108 These cities and their pasturelands the people of Israel gave by lot to the Levites, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.  
Jo2109 Out of the tribe of the people of Judah and the tribe of the people of Simeon they gave the following cities mentioned by name,  
Jo2110 which went to the descendants of Aaron, one of the clans of the Kohathites who belonged to the people of Levi; since the lot fell to them first.  
Jo2111 They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasturelands around it.  
Jo2112 But the fields of the city and its villages had been given to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.  
Jo2113 And to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, Libnah with its pasturelands,  
Jo2114 Jattir with its pasturelands, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands,  
Jo2115 Holon with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands,  
Jo2116 Ain with its pasturelands, Juttah with its pasturelands, Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands—nine cities out of these two tribes;  
Jo2117 then out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasturelands, Geba with its pasturelands,  
Jo2118 Anathoth with its pasturelands, and Almon with its pasturelands—four cities.  
Jo2119 The cities of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands.  
Jo2120 As to the rest of the Kohathites belonging to the Kohathite clans of the Levites, the cities allotted to them were out of the tribe of Ephraim.  
Jo2121 To them were given Shechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,  
Jo2122 Kibzaim with its pasturelands, Beth-horon with its pasturelands—four cities;  
Jo2123 and out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasturelands, Gibbethon with its pasturelands,  
Jo2124 Aijalon with its pasturelands, Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands—four cities;  
Jo2125 and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its pasturelands, and Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands—two cities.  
Jo2126 The cities of the clans of the rest of the Kohathites were ten in all with their pasturelands.  
Jo2127 And to the Gershonites, one of the clans of the Levites, were given out of the half- tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Beeshterah with its pasturelands—two cities;  
Jo2128 and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its pasturelands, Daberath with its pasturelands,  
Jo2129 Jarmuth with its pasturelands, En-gannim with its pasturelands—four cities;  
Jo2130 and out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands,  
Jo2131 Helkath with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands—four cities;  
Jo2132 and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Hammoth-dor with its pasturelands, and Kartan with its pasturelands—three cities.  
Jo2133 The cities of the several clans of the Gershonites were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands.  
Jo2134 And to the rest of the Levites, the Merarite clans, were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasturelands, Kartah with its pasturelands,  
Jo2135 Dimnah with its pasturelands, Nahalal with its pasturelands—four cities;  
Jo2136 and out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its pasturelands, Jahaz with its pasturelands,  
Jo2137 Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands—four cities;  
Jo2138 and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Mahanaim with its pasturelands,  
Jo2139 Heshbon with its pasturelands, Jazer with its pasturelands—four cities in all.  
Jo2140 As for the cities of the several Merarite clans, that is, the remainder of the clans of the Levites, those allotted to them were in all twelve cities.  
Jo2141 The cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the people of Israel were in all forty-eight cities with their pasturelands.  
Jo2142 These cities each had its pasturelands around it. So it was with all these cities.  
Jo2143 Thus the LORD gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their fathers. And they took possession of it, and they settled there.  
Jo2144 And the LORD gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. Not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the LORD had given all their enemies into their hands.  
Jo2145 Not one word of all the good promises that the LORD had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.  
Jo2201 At that time Joshua summoned the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh,  
Jo2202 and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you and have obeyed my voice in all that I have commanded you.  
Jo2203 You have not forsaken your brothers these many days, down to this day, but have been careful to keep the charge of the LORD your God.  
Jo2204 And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brothers, as he promised them. Therefore turn and go to your tents in the land where your possession lies, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan.  
Jo2205 Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”  
Jo2206 So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.  
Jo2207 Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but to the other half Joshua had given a possession beside their brothers in the land west of the Jordan. And when Joshua sent them away to their homes and blessed them,  
Jo2208 he said to them, “Go back to your tents with much wealth and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”  
Jo2209 So the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home, parting from the people of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, their own land of which they had possessed themselves by command of the LORD through Moses.  
Jo2210 And when they came to the region of the Jordan that is in the land of Canaan, the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, an altar of imposing size.  
Jo2211 And the people of Israel heard it said, “Behold, the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built the altar at the frontier of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that belongs to the people of Israel.”  
Jo2212 And when the people of Israel heard of it, the whole assembly of the people of Israel gathered at Shiloh to make war against them.  
Jo2213 Then the people of Israel sent to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,  
Jo2214 and with him ten chiefs, one from each of the tribal families of Israel, every one of them the head of a family among the clans of Israel.  
Jo2215 And they came to the people of Reuben, the people of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and they said to them,  
Jo2216 “Thus says the whole congregation of the LORD, ‘What is this breach of faith that you have committed against the God of Israel in turning away this day from following the LORD by building yourselves an altar this day in rebellion against the LORD?  
Jo2217 Have we not had enough of the sin at Peor from which even yet we have not cleansed ourselves, and for which there came a plague upon the congregation of the LORD,  
Jo2218 that you too must turn away this day from following the LORD? And if you too rebel against the LORD today then tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.  
Jo2219 But now, if the land of your possession is unclean, pass over into the LORD’s land where the LORD’s tabernacle stands, and take for yourselves a possession among us. Only do not rebel against the LORD or make us as rebels by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the LORD our God.  
Jo2220 Did not Achan the son of Zerah break faith in the matter of the devoted things, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? And he did not perish alone for his iniquity.’”  
Jo2221 Then the people of Reuben, the people of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh said in answer to the heads of the families of Israel,  
Jo2222 “The Mighty One, God, the LORD! The Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows; and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith against the LORD, do not spare us today  
Jo2223 for building an altar to turn away from following the LORD. Or if we did so to offer burnt offerings or grain offerings or peace offerings on it, may the LORD himself take vengeance.  
Jo2224 No, but we did it from fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, ‘What have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?  
Jo2225 For the LORD has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, you people of Reuben and people of Gad. You have no portion in the LORD.’ So your children might make our children cease to worship the LORD.  
Jo2226 Therefore we said, ‘Let us now build an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice,  
Jo2227 but to be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we do perform the service of the LORD in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and peace offerings, so your children will not say to our children in time to come, “You have no portion in the LORD.”’  
Jo2228 And we thought, ‘If this should be said to us or to our descendants in time to come, we should say, “Behold, the copy of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifice, but to be a witness between us and you.”’  
Jo2229 Far be it from us that we should rebel against the LORD and turn away this day from following the LORD by building an altar for burnt offering, grain offering, or sacrifice, other than the altar of the LORD our God that stands before his tabernacle!”  
Jo2230 When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation, the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh spoke, it was good in their eyes.  
Jo2231 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh, “Today we know that the LORD is in our midst, because you have not committed this breach of faith against the LORD. Now you have delivered the people of Israel from the hand of the LORD.”  
Jo2232 Then Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs, returned from the people of Reuben and the people of Gad in the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the people of Israel, and brought back word to them.  
Jo2233 And the report was good in the eyes of the people of Israel. And the people of Israel blessed God and spoke no more of making war against them to destroy the land where the people of Reuben and the people of Gad were settled.  
Jo2234 The people of Reuben and the people of Gad called the altar Witness, “For,” they said, “it is a witness between us that the LORD is God.”  
Jo2301 A long time afterward, when the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,  
Jo2302 Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, “I am now old and well advanced in years.  
Jo2303 And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.  
Jo2304 Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.  
Jo2305 The LORD your God will push them back before you and drive them out of your sight. And you shall possess their land, just as the LORD your God promised you.  
Jo2306 Therefore, be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left,  
Jo2307 that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,  
Jo2308 but you shall cling to the LORD your God just as you have done to this day.  
Jo2309 For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day.  
Jo2310 One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the LORD your God who fights for you, just as he promised you.  
Jo2311 Be very careful, therefore, to love the LORD your God.  
Jo2312 For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,  
Jo2313 know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the LORD your God has given you.  
Jo2314 “And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.  
Jo2315 But just as all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the LORD will bring upon you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that the LORD your God has given you,  
Jo2316 if you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you.”  
Jo2401 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.  
Jo2402 And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.  
Jo2403 Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac.  
Jo2404 And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.  
Jo2405 And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt with what I did in the midst of it, and afterward I brought you out.  
Jo2406 “‘Then I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea. And the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.  
Jo2407 And when they cried to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians and made the sea come upon them and cover them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness a long time.  
Jo2408 Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you.  
Jo2409 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. And he sent and invited Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,  
Jo2410 but I would not listen to Balaam. Indeed, he blessed you. So I delivered you out of his hand.  
Jo2411 And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho, and the leaders of Jericho fought against you, and also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I gave them into your hand.  
Jo2412 And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.  
Jo2413 I gave you a land on which you had not labored and cities that you had not built, and you dwell in them. You eat the fruit of vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant.’  
Jo2414 “Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.  
Jo2415 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”  
Jo2416 Then the people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD to serve other gods,  
Jo2417 for it is the LORD our God who brought us and our fathers up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed.  
Jo2418 And the LORD drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the LORD, for he is our God.”  
Jo2419 But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.  
Jo2420 If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.”  
Jo2421 And the people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve the LORD.”  
Jo2422 Then Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD, to serve him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.”  
Jo2423 He said, “Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD, the God of Israel.”  
Jo2424 And the people said to Joshua, “The LORD our God we will serve, and his voice we will obey.”  
Jo2425 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place statutes and rules for them at Shechem.  
Jo2426 And Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took a large stone and set it up there under the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.  
Jo2427 And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the LORD that he spoke to us. Therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God.”  
Jo2428 So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.  
Jo2429 After these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being 110 years old.  
Jo2430 And they buried him in his own inheritance at Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.  
Jo2431 Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the work that the LORD did for Israel.  
Jo2432 As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.  
Jo2433 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.  
Jd0101 After the death of Joshua, the people of Israel inquired of the LORD, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”  
Jd0102 The LORD said, “Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.”  
Jd0103 And Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites. And I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you.” So Simeon went with him.  
Jd0104 Then Judah went up and the LORD gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they defeated 10,000 of them at Bezek.  
Jd0105 They found Adoni-bezek at Bezek and fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.  
Jd0106 Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.  
Jd0107 And Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.  
Jd0108 And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.  
Jd0109 And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowland.  
Jd0110 And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.  
Jd0111 From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. The name of Debir was formerly Kiriath-sepher.  
Jd0112 And Caleb said, “He who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him Achsah my daughter for a wife.”  
Jd0113 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.  
Jd0114 When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”  
Jd0115 She said to him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water.” And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.  
Jd0116 And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad, and they went and settled with the people.  
Jd0117 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called Hormah.  
Jd0118 Judah also captured Gaza with its territory, and Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.  
Jd0119 And the LORD was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron.  
Jd0120 And Hebron was given to Caleb, as Moses had said. And he drove out from it the three sons of Anak.  
Jd0121 But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.  
Jd0122 The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the LORD was with them.  
Jd0123 And the house of Joseph scouted out Bethel. (Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)  
Jd0124 And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”  
Jd0125 And he showed them the way into the city. And they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.  
Jd0126 And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day.  
Jd0127 Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.  
Jd0128 When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely.  
Jd0129 And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.  
Jd0130 Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of Nahalol, so the Canaanites lived among them, but became subject to forced labor.  
Jd0131 Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon or of Ahlab or of Achzib or of Helbah or of Aphik or of Rehob,  
Jd0132 so the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they did not drive them out.  
Jd0133 Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, so they lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.  
Jd0134 The Amorites pressed the people of Dan back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain.  
Jd0135 The Amorites persisted in dwelling in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, but the hand of the house of Joseph rested heavily on them, and they became subject to forced labor.  
Jd0136 And the border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward.  
Jd0201 Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,  
Jd0202 and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?  
Jd0203 So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”  
Jd0204 As soon as the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.  
Jd0205 And they called the name of that place Bochim. And they sacrificed there to the LORD.  
Jd0206 When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land.  
Jd0207 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the LORD had done for Israel.  
Jd0208 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110 years.  
Jd0209 And they buried him within the boundaries of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.  
Jd0210 And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel.  
Jd0211 And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.  
Jd0212 And they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the LORD to anger.  
Jd0213 They abandoned the LORD and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth.  
Jd0214 So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.  
Jd0215 Whenever they marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them for harm, as the LORD had warned, and as the LORD had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress.  
Jd0216 Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.  
Jd0217 Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.  
Jd0218 Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.  
Jd0219 But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.  
Jd0220 So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, “Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,  
Jd0221 I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,  
Jd0222 in order to test Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the LORD as their fathers did, or not.”  
Jd0223 So the LORD left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.  
Jd0301 Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.  
Jd0302 It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before.  
Jd0303 These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.  
Jd0304 They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.  
Jd0305 So the people of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.  
Jd0306 And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.  
Jd0307 And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. They forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.  
Jd0308 Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.  
Jd0309 But when the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.  
Jd0310 The Spirit of the LORD was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the LORD gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.  
Jd0311 So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.  
Jd0312 And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the LORD.  
Jd0313 He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel. And they took possession of the city of palms.  
Jd0314 And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.  
Jd0315 Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, and the LORD raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.  
Jd0316 And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length, and he bound it on his right thigh under his clothes.  
Jd0317 And he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.  
Jd0318 And when Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.  
Jd0319 But he himself turned back at the idols near Gilgal and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” And he commanded, “Silence.” And all his attendants went out from his presence.  
Jd0320 And Ehud came to him as he was sitting alone in his cool roof chamber. And Ehud said, “I have a message from God for you.” And he arose from his seat.  
Jd0321 And Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.  
Jd0322 And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the dung came out.  
Jd0323 Then Ehud went out into the porch and closed the doors of the roof chamber behind him and locked them.  
Jd0324 When he had gone, the servants came, and when they saw that the doors of the roof chamber were locked, they thought, “Surely he is relieving himself in the closet of the cool chamber.”  
Jd0325 And they waited till they were embarrassed. But when he still did not open the doors of the roof chamber, they took the key and opened them, and there lay their lord dead on the floor.  
Jd0326 Ehud escaped while they delayed, and he passed beyond the idols and escaped to Seirah.  
Jd0327 When he arrived, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim. Then the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was their leader.  
Jd0328 And he said to them, “Follow after me, for the LORD has given your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” So they went down after him and seized the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites and did not allow anyone to pass over.  
Jd0329 And they killed at that time about 10,000 of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped.  
Jd0330 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.  
Jd0331 After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel.  
Jd0401 And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD after Ehud died.  
Jd0402 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.  
Jd0403 Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.  
Jd0404 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.  
Jd0405 She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment.  
Jd0406 She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, “Has not the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded you, ‘Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun.  
Jd0407 And I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabin’s army, to meet you by the river Kishon with his chariots and his troops, and I will give him into your hand’?”  
Jd0408 Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, I will go, but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”  
Jd0409 And she said, “I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory, for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.  
Jd0410 And Barak called out Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. And 10,000 men went up at his heels, and Deborah went up with him.  
Jd0411 Now Heber the Kenite had separated from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.  
Jd0412 When Sisera was told that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,  
Jd0413 Sisera called out all his chariots, 900 chariots of iron, and all the men who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the river Kishon.  
Jd0414 And Deborah said to Barak, “Up! For this is the day in which the LORD has given Sisera into your hand. Does not the LORD go out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with 10,000 men following him.  
Jd0415 And the LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army before Barak by the edge of the sword. And Sisera got down from his chariot and fled away on foot.  
Jd0416 And Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not a man was left.  
Jd0417 But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.  
Jd0418 And Jael came out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me; do not be afraid.” So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.  
Jd0419 And he said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him.  
Jd0420 And he said to her, “Stand at the opening of the tent, and if any man comes and asks you, ‘Is anyone here?’ say, ‘No.’”  
Jd0421 But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died.  
Jd0422 And behold, as Barak was pursuing Sisera, Jael went out to meet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” So he went in to her tent, and there lay Sisera dead, with the tent peg in his temple.  
Jd0423 So on that day God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the people of Israel.  
Jd0424 And the hand of the people of Israel pressed harder and harder against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.  
Jd0501 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day:  
Jd0502 “That the leaders took the lead in Israel, that the people offered themselves willingly, bless the LORD!  
Jd0503 “Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; to the LORD I will sing; I will make melody to the LORD, the God of Israel.  
Jd0504 “ LORD, when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped, yes, the clouds dropped water.  
Jd0505 The mountains quaked before the LORD, even Sinai before the LORD, the God of Israel.  
Jd0506 “In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned, and travelers kept to the byways.  
Jd0507 The villagers ceased in Israel; they ceased to be until I arose; I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.  
Jd0508 When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?  
Jd0509 My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless the LORD.  
Jd0510 “Tell of it, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets and you who walk by the way.  
Jd0511 To the sound of musicians at the watering places, there they repeat the righteous triumphs of the LORD, the righteous triumphs of his villagers in Israel. “Then down to the gates marched the people of the LORD.  
Jd0512 “Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, break out in a song! Arise, Barak, lead away your captives, O son of Abinoam.  
Jd0513 Then down marched the remnant of the noble; the people of the LORD marched down for me against the mighty.  
Jd0514 From Ephraim their root they marched down into the valley, following you, Benjamin, with your kinsmen; from Machir marched down the commanders, and from Zebulun those who bear the lieutenant’s staff;  
Jd0515 the princes of Issachar came with Deborah, and Issachar faithful to Barak; into the valley they rushed at his heels. Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.  
Jd0516 Why did you sit still among the sheepfolds, to hear the whistling for the flocks? Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.  
Jd0517 Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he stay with the ships? Asher sat still at the coast of the sea, staying by his landings.  
Jd0518 Zebulun is a people who risked their lives to the death; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the field.  
Jd0519 “The kings came, they fought; then fought the kings of Canaan, at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; they got no spoils of silver.  
Jd0520 From heaven the stars fought, from their courses they fought against Sisera.  
Jd0521 The torrent Kishon swept them away, the ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. March on, my soul, with might!  
Jd0522 “Then loud beat the horses’ hoofs with the galloping, galloping of his steeds.  
Jd0523 “Curse Meroz, says the angel of the LORD, curse its inhabitants thoroughly, because they did not come to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.  
Jd0524 “Most blessed of women be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, of tent-dwelling women most blessed.  
Jd0525 He asked for water and she gave him milk; she brought him curds in a noble’s bowl.  
Jd0526 She sent her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen’s mallet; she struck Sisera; she crushed his head; she shattered and pierced his temple.  
Jd0527 Between her feet he sank, he fell, he lay still; between her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell—dead.  
Jd0528 “Out of the window she peered, the mother of Sisera wailed through the lattice: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?’  
Jd0529 Her wisest princesses answer, indeed, she answers herself,  
Jd0530 ‘Have they not found and divided the spoil?— A womb or two for every man; spoil of dyed materials for Sisera, spoil of dyed materials embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?’  
Jd0531 “So may all your enemies perish, O LORD! But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.” And the land had rest for forty years.  
Jd0601 The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.  
Jd0602 And the hand of Midian overpowered Israel, and because of Midian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens that are in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.  
Jd0603 For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.  
Jd0604 They would encamp against them and devour the produce of the land, as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel and no sheep or ox or donkey.  
Jd0605 For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come like locusts in number—both they and their camels could not be counted—so that they laid waste the land as they came in.  
Jd0606 And Israel was brought very low because of Midian. And the people of Israel cried out for help to the LORD.  
Jd0607 When the people of Israel cried out to the LORD on account of the Midianites,  
Jd0608 the LORD sent a prophet to the people of Israel. And he said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I led you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of slavery.  
Jd0609 And I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out before you and gave you their land.  
Jd0610 And I said to you, ‘I am the LORD your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell.’ But you have not obeyed my voice.”  
Jd0611 Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.  
Jd0612 And the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.”  
Jd0613 And Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian.”  
Jd0614 And the LORD turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?”  
Jd0615 And he said to him, “Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”  
Jd0616 And the LORD said to him, “But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”  
Jd0617 And he said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me.  
Jd0618 Please do not depart from here until I come to you and bring out my present and set it before you.” And he said, “I will stay till you return.”  
Jd0619 So Gideon went into his house and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them.  
Jd0620 And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them on this rock, and pour the broth over them.” And he did so.  
Jd0621 Then the angel of the LORD reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes. And fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.  
Jd0622 Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the LORD. And Gideon said, “Alas, O Lord GOD! For now I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face.”  
Jd0623 But the LORD said to him, “Peace be to you. Do not fear; you shall not die.”  
Jd0624 Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD and called it, The LORD Is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.  
Jd0625 That night the LORD said to him, “Take your father’s bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it  
Jd0626 and build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of the stronghold here, with stones laid in due order. Then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you shall cut down.”  
Jd0627 So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night.  
Jd0628 When the men of the town rose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar that had been built.  
Jd0629 And they said to one another, “Who has done this thing?” And after they had searched and inquired, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.”  
Jd0630 Then the men of the town said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has broken down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah beside it.”  
Jd0631 But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because his altar has been broken down.”  
Jd0632 Therefore on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend against him,” because he broke down his altar.  
Jd0633 Now all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East came together, and they crossed the Jordan and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.  
Jd0634 But the Spirit of the LORD clothed Gideon, and he sounded the trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called out to follow him.  
Jd0635 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they too were called out to follow him. And he sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they went up to meet them.  
Jd0636 Then Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said,  
Jd0637 behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.”  
Jd0638 And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water.  
Jd0639 Then Gideon said to God, “Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew.”  
Jd0640 And God did so that night; and it was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.  
Jd0701 Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.  
Jd0702 The LORD said to Gideon, “The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel boast over me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’  
Jd0703 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home and hurry away from Mount Gilead.’” Then 22,000 of the people returned, and 10,000 remained.  
Jd0704 And the LORD said to Gideon, “The people are still too many. Take them down to the water, and I will test them for you there, and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ shall go with you, and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ shall not go.”  
Jd0705 So he brought the people down to the water. And the LORD said to Gideon, “Every one who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself. Likewise, every one who kneels down to drink.”  
Jd0706 And the number of those who lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water.  
Jd0707 And the LORD said to Gideon, “With the 300 men who lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go every man to his home.”  
Jd0708 So the people took provisions in their hands, and their trumpets. And he sent all the rest of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the 300 men. And the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.  
Jd0709 That same night the LORD said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hand.  
Jd0710 But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant.  
Jd0711 And you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp.” Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outposts of the armed men who were in the camp.  
Jd0712 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.  
Jd0713 When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”  
Jd0714 And his comrade answered, “This is no other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given into his hand Midian and all the camp.”  
Jd0715 As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped. And he returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the LORD has given the host of Midian into your hand.”  
Jd0716 And he divided the 300 men into three companies and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with torches inside the jars.  
Jd0717 And he said to them, “Look at me, and do likewise. When I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do.  
Jd0718 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and shout, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon.’”  
Jd0719 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch. And they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.  
Jd0720 Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. They held in their left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow. And they cried out, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”  
Jd0721 Every man stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran. They cried out and fled.  
Jd0722 When they blew the 300 trumpets, the LORD set every man’s sword against his comrade and against all the army. And the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.  
Jd0723 And the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali and from Asher and from all Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian.  
Jd0724 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites and capture the waters against them, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.  
Jd0725 And they captured the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb. Then they pursued Midian, and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon across the Jordan.  
Jd0801 Then the men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they accused him fiercely.  
Jd0802 And he said to them, “What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?  
Jd0803 God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger against him subsided when he said this.  
Jd0804 And Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and the 300 men who were with him, exhausted yet pursuing.  
Jd0805 So he said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”  
Jd0806 And the officials of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”  
Jd0807 So Gideon said, “Well then, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”  
Jd0808 And from there he went up to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way, and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.  
Jd0809 And he said to the men of Penuel, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.”  
Jd0810 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about 15,000 men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the East, for there had fallen 120,000 men who drew the sword.  
Jd0811 And Gideon went up by the way of the tent dwellers east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the army, for the army felt secure.  
Jd0812 And Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he threw all the army into a panic.  
Jd0813 Then Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle by the ascent of Heres.  
Jd0814 And he captured a young man of Succoth and questioned him. And he wrote down for him the officials and elders of Succoth, seventy-seven men.  
Jd0815 And he came to the men of Succoth and said, “Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are exhausted?’”  
Jd0816 And he took the elders of the city, and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them taught the men of Succoth a lesson.  
Jd0817 And he broke down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.  
Jd0818 Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “Where are the men whom you killed at Tabor?” They answered, “As you are, so were they. Every one of them resembled the son of a king.”  
Jd0819 And he said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”  
Jd0820 So he said to Jether his firstborn, “Rise and kill them!” But the young man did not draw his sword, for he was afraid, because he was still a young man.  
Jd0821 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise yourself and fall upon us, for as the man is, so is his strength.” And Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.  
Jd0822 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”  
Jd0823 Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the LORD will rule over you.”  
Jd0824 And Gideon said to them, “Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)  
Jd0825 And they answered, “We will willingly give them.” And they spread a cloak, and every man threw in it the earrings of his spoil.  
Jd0826 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels.  
Jd0827 And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.  
Jd0828 So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they raised their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.  
Jd0829 Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.  
Jd0830 Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.  
Jd0831 And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.  
Jd0832 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, at Ophrah of the Abiezrites.  
Jd0833 As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.  
Jd0834 And the people of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them from the hand of all their enemies on every side,  
Jd0835 and they did not show steadfast love to the family of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel.  
Jd0901 Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother’s family,  
Jd0902 “Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”  
Jd0903 And his mother’s relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.”  
Jd0904 And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.  
Jd0905 And he went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.  
Jd0906 And all the leaders of Shechem came together, and all Beth-millo, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.  
Jd0907 When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim and cried aloud and said to them, “Listen to me, you leaders of Shechem, that God may listen to you.  
Jd0908 The trees once went out to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’  
Jd0909 But the olive tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my abundance, by which gods and men are honored, and go hold sway over the trees?’  
Jd0910 And the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and reign over us.’  
Jd0911 But the fig tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit and go hold sway over the trees?’  
Jd0912 And the trees said to the vine, ‘You come and reign over us.’  
Jd0913 But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my wine that cheers God and men and go hold sway over the trees?’  
Jd0914 Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘You come and reign over us.’  
Jd0915 And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’  
Jd0916 “Now therefore, if you acted in good faith and integrity when you made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house and have done to him as his deeds deserved—  
Jd0917 for my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian,  
Jd0918 and you have risen up against my father’s house this day and have killed his sons, seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the leaders of Shechem, because he is your relative—  
Jd0919 if you then have acted in good faith and integrity with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you.  
Jd0920 But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the leaders of Shechem and from Beth-millo and devour Abimelech.”  
Jd0921 And Jotham ran away and fled and went to Beer and lived there, because of Abimelech his brother.  
Jd0922 Abimelech ruled over Israel three years.  
Jd0923 And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,  
Jd0924 that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.  
Jd0925 And the leaders of Shechem put men in ambush against him on the mountaintops, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way. And it was told to Abimelech.  
Jd0926 And Gaal the son of Ebed moved into Shechem with his relatives, and the leaders of Shechem put confidence in him.  
Jd0927 And they went out into the field and gathered the grapes from their vineyards and trod them and held a festival; and they went into the house of their god and ate and drank and reviled Abimelech.  
Jd0928 And Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him?  
Jd0929 Would that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech. I would say to Abimelech, ‘Increase your army, and come out.’”  
Jd0930 When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.  
Jd0931 And he sent messengers to Abimelech secretly, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his relatives have come to Shechem, and they are stirring up the city against you.  
Jd0932 Now therefore, go by night, you and the people who are with you, and set an ambush in the field.  
Jd0933 Then in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, rise early and rush upon the city. And when he and the people who are with him come out against you, you may do to them as your hand finds to do.”  
Jd0934 So Abimelech and all the men who were with him rose up by night and set an ambush against Shechem in four companies.  
Jd0935 And Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city, and Abimelech and the people who were with him rose from the ambush.  
Jd0936 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the mountaintops!” And Zebul said to him, “You mistake the shadow of the mountains for men.”  
Jd0937 Gaal spoke again and said, “Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming from the direction of the Diviners’ Oak.”  
Jd0938 Then Zebul said to him, “Where is your mouth now, you who said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Are not these the people whom you despised? Go out now and fight with them.”  
Jd0939 And Gaal went out at the head of the leaders of Shechem and fought with Abimelech.  
Jd0940 And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him. And many fell wounded, up to the entrance of the gate.  
Jd0941 And Abimelech lived at Arumah, and Zebul drove out Gaal and his relatives, so that they could not dwell at Shechem.  
Jd0942 On the following day, the people went out into the field, and Abimelech was told.  
Jd0943 He took his people and divided them into three companies and set an ambush in the fields. And he looked and saw the people coming out of the city. So he rose against them and killed them.  
Jd0944 Abimelech and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city, while the two companies rushed upon all who were in the field and killed them.  
Jd0945 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed the people who were in it, and he razed the city and sowed it with salt.  
Jd0946 When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the house of El-berith.  
Jd0947 Abimelech was told that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem were gathered together.  
Jd0948 And Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him. And Abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a bundle of brushwood and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the men who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry and do as I have done.”  
Jd0949 So every one of the people cut down his bundle and following Abimelech put it against the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about 1,000 men and women.  
Jd0950 Then Abimelech went to Thebez and encamped against Thebez and captured it.  
Jd0951 But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women and all the leaders of the city fled to it and shut themselves in, and they went up to the roof of the tower.  
Jd0952 And Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.  
Jd0953 And a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head and crushed his skull.  
Jd0954 Then he called quickly to the young man his armor-bearer and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” And his young man thrust him through, and he died.  
Jd0955 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, everyone departed to his home.  
Jd0956 Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.  
Jd0957 And God also made all the evil of the men of Shechem return on their heads, and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.  
Jd1001 After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, and he lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.  
Jd1002 And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried at Shamir.  
Jd1003 After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.  
Jd1004 And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.  
Jd1005 And Jair died and was buried in Kamon.  
Jd1006 The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the LORD and did not serve him.  
Jd1007 So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites,  
Jd1008 and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.  
Jd1009 And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed.  
Jd1010 And the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against you, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals.”  
Jd1011 And the LORD said to the people of Israel, “Did I not save you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the Ammonites and from the Philistines?  
Jd1012 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I saved you out of their hand.  
Jd1013 Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will save you no more.  
Jd1014 Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.”  
Jd1015 And the people of Israel said to the LORD, “We have sinned; do to us whatever seems good to you. Only please deliver us this day.”  
Jd1016 So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and he became impatient over the misery of Israel.  
Jd1017 Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead. And the people of Israel came together, and they encamped at Mizpah.  
Jd1018 And the people, the leaders of Gilead, said one to another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”  
Jd1101 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.  
Jd1102 And Gilead’s wife also bore him sons. And when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You shall not have an inheritance in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”  
Jd1103 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob, and worthless fellows collected around Jephthah and went out with him.  
Jd1104 After a time the Ammonites made war against Israel.  
Jd1105 And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob.  
Jd1106 And they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our leader, that we may fight against the Ammonites.”  
Jd1107 But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”  
Jd1108 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight against the Ammonites and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”  
Jd1109 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight against the Ammonites, and the LORD gives them over to me, I will be your head.”  
Jd1110 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD will be witness between us, if we do not do as you say.”  
Jd1111 So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD at Mizpah.  
Jd1112 Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, “What do you have against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”  
Jd1113 And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel on coming up from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably.”  
Jd1114 Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites  
Jd1115 and said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites,  
Jd1116 but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.  
Jd1117 Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh.  
Jd1118 “Then they journeyed through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.  
Jd1119 Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to our country,’  
Jd1120 but Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory, so Sihon gathered all his people together and encamped at Jahaz and fought with Israel.  
Jd1121 And the LORD, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country.  
Jd1122 And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.  
Jd1123 So then the LORD, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them?  
Jd1124 Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the LORD our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess.  
Jd1125 Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend against Israel, or did he ever go to war with them?  
Jd1126 While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, 300 years, why did you not deliver them within that time?  
Jd1127 I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me. The LORD, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon.”  
Jd1128 But the king of the Ammonites did not listen to the words of Jephthah that he sent to him.  
Jd1129 Then the Spirit of the LORD was upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites.  
Jd1130 And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, “If you will give the Ammonites into my hand,  
Jd1131 then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the LORD’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.”  
Jd1132 So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the LORD gave them into his hand.  
Jd1133 And he struck them from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a great blow. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel.  
Jd1134 Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.  
Jd1135 And as soon as he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me. For I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot take back my vow.”  
Jd1136 And she said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to the LORD; do to me according to what has gone out of your mouth, now that the LORD has avenged you on your enemies, on the Ammonites.”  
Jd1137 So she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: leave me alone two months, that I may go up and down on the mountains and weep for my virginity, I and my companions.”  
Jd1138 So he said, “Go.” Then he sent her away for two months, and she departed, she and her companions, and wept for her virginity on the mountains.  
Jd1139 And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow that he had made. She had never known a man, and it became a custom in Israel  
Jd1140 that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.  
Jd1201 The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire.”  
Jd1202 And Jephthah said to them, “I and my people had a great dispute with the Ammonites, and when I called you, you did not save me from their hand.  
Jd1203 And when I saw that you would not save me, I took my life in my hand and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?”  
Jd1204 Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh.”  
Jd1205 And the Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” When he said, “No,”  
Jd1206 they said to him, “Then say Shibboleth,” and he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites fell.  
Jd1207 Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city in Gilead.  
Jd1208 After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.  
Jd1209 He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.  
Jd1210 Then Ibzan died and was buried at Bethlehem.  
Jd1211 After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years.  
Jd1212 Then Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried at Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.  
Jd1213 After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.  
Jd1214 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys, and he judged Israel eight years.  
Jd1215 Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried at Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.  
Jd1301 And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, so the LORD gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.  
Jd1302 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and had no children.  
Jd1303 And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.  
Jd1304 Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,  
Jd1305 for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”  
Jd1306 Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name,  
Jd1307 but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”  
Jd1308 Then Manoah prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us and teach us what we are to do with the child who will be born.”  
Jd1309 And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field. But Manoah her husband was not with her.  
Jd1310 So the woman ran quickly and told her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me.”  
Jd1311 And Manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to this woman?” And he said, “I am.”  
Jd1312 And Manoah said, “Now when your words come true, what is to be the child’s manner of life, and what is his mission?”  
Jd1313 And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her be careful.  
Jd1314 She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. All that I commanded her let her observe.”  
Jd1315 Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “Please let us detain you and prepare a young goat for you.”  
Jd1316 And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, “If you detain me, I will not eat of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to the LORD.” (For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the LORD.)  
Jd1317 And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?”  
Jd1318 And the angel of the LORD said to him, “Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?”  
Jd1319 So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it on the rock to the LORD, to the one who works wonders, and Manoah and his wife were watching.  
Jd1320 And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the LORD went up in the flame of the altar. Now Manoah and his wife were watching, and they fell on their faces to the ground.  
Jd1321 The angel of the LORD appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the LORD.  
Jd1322 And Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, for we have seen God.”  
Jd1323 But his wife said to him, “If the LORD had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these.”  
Jd1324 And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. And the young man grew, and the LORD blessed him.  
Jd1325 And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.  
Jd1401 Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines.  
Jd1402 Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.”  
Jd1403 But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”  
Jd1404 His father and mother did not know that it was from the LORD, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.  
Jd1405 Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring.  
Jd1406 Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.  
Jd1407 Then he went down and talked with the woman, and she was right in Samson’s eyes.  
Jd1408 After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.  
Jd1409 He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion.  
Jd1410 His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for so the young men used to do.  
Jd1411 As soon as the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.  
Jd1412 And Samson said to them, “Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes,  
Jd1413 but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.” And they said to him, “Put your riddle, that we may hear it.”  
Jd1414 And he said to them, “Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet.” And in three days they could not solve the riddle.  
Jd1415 On the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?”  
Jd1416 And Samson’s wife wept over him and said, “You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?”  
Jd1417 She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people.  
Jd1418 And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” And he said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.”  
Jd1419 And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father’s house.  
Jd1420 And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.  
Jd1501 After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a young goat. And he said, “I will go in to my wife in the chamber.” But her father would not allow him to go in.  
Jd1502 And her father said, “I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”  
Jd1503 And Samson said to them, “This time I shall be innocent in regard to the Philistines, when I do them harm.”  
Jd1504 So Samson went and caught 300 foxes and took torches. And he turned them tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of tails.  
Jd1505 And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines and set fire to the stacked grain and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards.  
Jd1506 Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.  
Jd1507 And Samson said to them, “If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged on you, and after that I will quit.”  
Jd1508 And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.  
Jd1509 Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah and made a raid on Lehi.  
Jd1510 And the men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us.”  
Jd1511 Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so have I done to them.”  
Jd1512 And they said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”  
Jd1513 They said to him, “No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands. We will surely not kill you.” So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.  
Jd1514 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.  
Jd1515 And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, and with it he struck 1,000 men.  
Jd1516 And Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey have I struck down a thousand men.”  
Jd1517 As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was called Ramath-lehi.  
Jd1518 And he was very thirsty, and he called upon the LORD and said, “You have granted this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and shall I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”  
Jd1519 And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out from it. And when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore; it is at Lehi to this day.  
Jd1520 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.  
Jd1601 Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a prostitute, and he went in to her.  
Jd1602 The Gazites were told, “Samson has come here.” And they surrounded the place and set an ambush for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, “Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him.”  
Jd1603 But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron.  
Jd1604 After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.  
Jd1605 And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.”  
Jd1606 So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you.”  
Jd1607 Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”  
Jd1608 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she bound him with them.  
Jd1609 Now she had men lying in ambush in an inner chamber. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he snapped the bowstrings, as a thread of flax snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.  
Jd1610 Then Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me and told me lies. Please tell me how you might be bound.”  
Jd1611 And he said to her, “If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”  
Jd1612 So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And the men lying in ambush were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.  
Jd1613 Then Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you might be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and fasten it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”  
Jd1614 So while he slept, Delilah took the seven locks of his head and wove them into the web. And she made them tight with the pin and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled away the pin, the loom, and the web.  
Jd1615 And she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies.”  
Jd1616 And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.  
Jd1617 And he told her all his heart, and said to her, “A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man.”  
Jd1618 When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up again, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hands.  
Jd1619 She made him sleep on her knees. And she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him.  
Jd1620 And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had left him.  
Jd1621 And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.  
Jd1622 But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.  
Jd1623 Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to rejoice, and they said, “Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand.”  
Jd1624 And when the people saw him, they praised their god. For they said, “Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has killed many of us.”  
Jd1625 And when their hearts were merry, they said, “Call Samson, that he may entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison, and he entertained them. They made him stand between the pillars.  
Jd1626 And Samson said to the young man who held him by the hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them.”  
Jd1627 Now the house was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there, and on the roof there were about 3,000 men and women, who looked on while Samson entertained.  
Jd1628 Then Samson called to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes.”  
Jd1629 And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he leaned his weight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other.  
Jd1630 And Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he bowed with all his strength, and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he had killed during his life.  
Jd1631 Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years.  
Jd1701 There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.  
Jd1702 And he said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD.”  
Jd1703 And he restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, “I dedicate the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a metal image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”  
Jd1704 So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a carved image and a metal image. And it was in the house of Micah.  
Jd1705 And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.  
Jd1706 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.  
Jd1707 Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.  
Jd1708 And the man departed from the town of Bethlehem in Judah to sojourn where he could find a place. And as he journeyed, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.  
Jd1709 And Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I may find a place.”  
Jd1710 And Micah said to him, “Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year and a suit of clothes and your living.” And the Levite went in.  
Jd1711 And the Levite was content to dwell with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.  
Jd1712 And Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.  
Jd1713 Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest.”  
Jd1801 In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the people of Dan was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in, for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.  
Jd1802 So the people of Dan sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, “Go and explore the land.” And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.  
Jd1803 When they were by the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite. And they turned aside and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?”  
Jd1804 And he said to them, “This is how Micah dealt with me: he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”  
Jd1805 And they said to him, “Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”  
Jd1806 And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”  
Jd1807 Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.  
Jd1808 And when they came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers said to them, “What do you report?”  
Jd1809 They said, “Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. And will you do nothing? Do not be slow to go, to enter in and possess the land.  
Jd1810 As soon as you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people. The land is spacious, for God has given it into your hands, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”  
Jd1811 So 600 men of the tribe of Dan, armed with weapons of war, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol,  
Jd1812 and went up and encamped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. On this account that place is called Mahaneh-dan to this day; behold, it is west of Kiriath-jearim.  
Jd1813 And they passed on from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.  
Jd1814 Then the five men who had gone to scout out the country of Laish said to their brothers, “Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, household gods, a carved image, and a metal image? Now therefore consider what you will do.”  
Jd1815 And they turned aside there and came to the house of the young Levite, at the home of Micah, and asked him about his welfare.  
Jd1816 Now the 600 men of the Danites, armed with their weapons of war, stood by the entrance of the gate.  
Jd1817 And the five men who had gone to scout out the land went up and entered and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war.  
Jd1818 And when these went into Micah’s house and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”  
Jd1819 And they said to him, “Keep quiet; put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?”  
Jd1820 And the priest’s heart was glad. He took the ephod and the household gods and the carved image and went along with the people.  
Jd1821 So they turned and departed, putting the little ones and the livestock and the goods in front of them.  
Jd1822 When they had gone a distance from the home of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house were called out, and they overtook the people of Dan.  
Jd1823 And they shouted to the people of Dan, who turned around and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you, that you come with such a company?”  
Jd1824 And he said, “You take my gods that I made and the priest, and go away, and what have I left? How then do you ask me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”  
Jd1825 And the people of Dan said to him, “Do not let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall upon you, and you lose your life with the lives of your household.”  
Jd1826 Then the people of Dan went their way. And when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his home.  
Jd1827 But the people of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, and they came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.  
Jd1828 And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth-rehob. Then they rebuilt the city and lived in it.  
Jd1829 And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but the name of the city was Laish at the first.  
Jd1830 And the people of Dan set up the carved image for themselves, and Jonathan the son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.  
Jd1831 So they set up Micah’s carved image that he made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.  
Jd1901 In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.  
Jd1902 And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months.  
Jd1903 Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. And she brought him into her father’s house. And when the girl’s father saw him, he came with joy to meet him.  
Jd1904 And his father-in-law, the girl’s father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and spent the night there.  
Jd1905 And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go.”  
Jd1906 So the two of them sat and ate and drank together. And the girl’s father said to the man, “Be pleased to spend the night, and let your heart be merry.”  
Jd1907 And when the man rose up to go, his father-in-law pressed him, till he spent the night there again.  
Jd1908 And on the fifth day he arose early in the morning to depart. And the girl’s father said, “Strengthen your heart and wait until the day declines.” So they ate, both of them.  
Jd1909 And when the man and his concubine and his servant rose up to depart, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day has waned toward evening. Please, spend the night. Behold, the day draws to its close. Lodge here and let your heart be merry, and tomorrow you shall arise early in the morning for your journey, and go home.”  
Jd1910 But the man would not spend the night. He rose up and departed and arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a couple of saddled donkeys, and his concubine was with him.  
Jd1911 When they were near Jebus, the day was nearly over, and the servant said to his master, “Come now, let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites and spend the night in it.”  
Jd1912 And his master said to him, “We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners, who do not belong to the people of Israel, but we will pass on to Gibeah.”  
Jd1913 And he said to his young man, “Come and let us draw near to one of these places and spend the night at Gibeah or at Ramah.”  
Jd1914 So they passed on and went their way. And the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin,  
Jd1915 and they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gibeah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city, for no one took them into his house to spend the night.  
Jd1916 And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field at evening. The man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibeah. The men of the place were Benjaminites.  
Jd1917 And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city. And the old man said, “Where are you going? And where do you come from?”  
Jd1918 And he said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, from which I come. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to the house of the LORD, but no one has taken me into his house.  
Jd1919 We have straw and feed for our donkeys, with bread and wine for me and your female servant and the young man with your servants. There is no lack of anything.”  
Jd1920 And the old man said, “Peace be to you; I will care for all your wants. Only, do not spend the night in the square.”  
Jd1921 So he brought him into his house and gave the donkeys feed. And they washed their feet, and ate and drank.  
Jd1922 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.”  
Jd1923 And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, do not do this vile thing.  
Jd1924 Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.”  
Jd1925 But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and made her go out to them. And they knew her and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go.  
Jd1926 And as morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her master was, until it was light.  
Jd1927 And her master rose up in the morning, and when he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, behold, there was his concubine lying at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.  
Jd1928 He said to her, “Get up, let us be going.” But there was no answer. Then he put her on the donkey, and the man rose up and went away to his home.  
Jd1929 And when he entered his house, he took a knife, and taking hold of his concubine he divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.  
Jd1930 And all who saw it said, “Such a thing has never happened or been seen from the day that the people of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak.”  
Jd2001 Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the LORD at Mizpah.  
Jd2002 And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 men on foot that drew the sword.  
Jd2003 (Now the people of Benjamin heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the people of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this evil happen?”  
Jd2004 And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, “I came to Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.  
Jd2005 And the leaders of Gibeah rose against me and surrounded the house against me by night. They meant to kill me, and they violated my concubine, and she is dead.  
Jd2006 So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed abomination and outrage in Israel.  
Jd2007 Behold, you people of Israel, all of you, give your advice and counsel here.”  
Jd2008 And all the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, and none of us will return to his house.  
Jd2009 But now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot,  
Jd2010 and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions for the people, that when they come they may repay Gibeah of Benjamin for all the outrage that they have committed in Israel.”  
Jd2011 So all the men of Israel gathered against the city, united as one man.  
Jd2012 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What evil is this that has taken place among you?  
Jd2013 Now therefore give up the men, the worthless fellows in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and purge evil from Israel.” But the Benjaminites would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the people of Israel.  
Jd2014 Then the people of Benjamin came together out of the cities to Gibeah to go out to battle against the people of Israel.  
Jd2015 And the people of Benjamin mustered out of their cities on that day 26,000 men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who mustered 700 chosen men.  
Jd2016 Among all these were 700 chosen men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.  
Jd2017 And the men of Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered 400,000 men who drew the sword; all these were men of war.  
Jd2018 The people of Israel arose and went up to Bethel and inquired of God, “Who shall go up first for us to fight against the people of Benjamin?” And the LORD said, “Judah shall go up first.”  
Jd2019 Then the people of Israel rose in the morning and encamped against Gibeah.  
Jd2020 And the men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin, and the men of Israel drew up the battle line against them at Gibeah.  
Jd2021 The people of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and destroyed on that day 22,000 men of the Israelites.  
Jd2022 But the people, the men of Israel, took courage, and again formed the battle line in the same place where they had formed it on the first day.  
Jd2023 And the people of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until the evening. And they inquired of the LORD, “Shall we again draw near to fight against our brothers, the people of Benjamin?” And the LORD said, “Go up against them.”  
Jd2024 So the people of Israel came near against the people of Benjamin the second day.  
Jd2025 And Benjamin went against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed 18,000 men of the people of Israel. All these were men who drew the sword.  
Jd2026 Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to Bethel and wept. They sat there before the LORD and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.  
Jd2027 And the people of Israel inquired of the LORD (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,  
Jd2028 and Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, ministered before it in those days), saying, “Shall we go out once more to battle against our brothers, the people of Benjamin, or shall we cease?” And the LORD said, “Go up, for tomorrow I will give them into your hand.”  
Jd2029 So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.  
Jd2030 And the people of Israel went up against the people of Benjamin on the third day and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.  
Jd2031 And the people of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city. And as at other times they began to strike and kill some of the people in the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel.  
Jd2032 And the people of Benjamin said, “They are routed before us, as at the first.” But the people of Israel said, “Let us flee and draw them away from the city to the highways.”  
Jd2033 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar, and the men of Israel who were in ambush rushed out of their place from Maareh-geba.  
Jd2034 And there came against Gibeah 10,000 chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was hard, but the Benjaminites did not know that disaster was close upon them.  
Jd2035 And the LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel, and the people of Israel destroyed 25,100 men of Benjamin that day. All these were men who drew the sword.  
Jd2036 So the people of Benjamin saw that they were defeated. The men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin, because they trusted the men in ambush whom they had set against Gibeah.  
Jd2037 Then the men in ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah; the men in ambush moved out and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.  
Jd2038 Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in the main ambush was that when they made a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city  
Jd2039 the men of Israel should turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to strike and kill about thirty men of Israel. They said, “Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first battle.”  
Jd2040 But when the signal began to rise out of the city in a column of smoke, the Benjaminites looked behind them, and behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven.  
Jd2041 Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that disaster was close upon them.  
Jd2042 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in the direction of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them. And those who came out of the cities were destroying them in their midst.  
Jd2043 Surrounding the Benjaminites, they pursued them and trod them down from Nohah as far as opposite Gibeah on the east.  
Jd2044 Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all of them men of valor.  
Jd2045 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. Five thousand men of them were cut down in the highways. And they were pursued hard to Gidom, and 2,000 men of them were struck down.  
Jd2046 So all who fell that day of Benjamin were 25,000 men who drew the sword, all of them men of valor.  
Jd2047 But 600 men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon and remained at the rock of Rimmon four months.  
Jd2048 And the men of Israel turned back against the people of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, the city, men and beasts and all that they found. And all the towns that they found they set on fire.  
Jd2101 Now the men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, “No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin.”  
Jd2102 And the people came to Bethel and sat there till evening before God, and they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly.  
Jd2103 And they said, “O LORD, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that today there should be one tribe lacking in Israel?”  
Jd2104 And the next day the people rose early and built there an altar and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.  
Jd2105 And the people of Israel said, “Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the LORD?” For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”  
Jd2106 And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother and said, “One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.  
Jd2107 What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?”  
Jd2108 And they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah?” And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead, to the assembly.  
Jd2109 For when the people were mustered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh- gilead was there.  
Jd2110 So the congregation sent 12,000 of their bravest men there and commanded them, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones.  
Jd2111 This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.”  
Jd2112 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.  
Jd2113 Then the whole congregation sent word to the people of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon and proclaimed peace to them.  
Jd2114 And Benjamin returned at that time. And they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead, but they were not enough for them.  
Jd2115 And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.  
Jd2116 Then the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”  
Jd2117 And they said, “There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.  
Jd2118 Yet we cannot give them wives from our daughters.” For the people of Israel had sworn, “Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.”  
Jd2119 So they said, “Behold, there is the yearly feast of the LORD at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”  
Jd2120 And they commanded the people of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in ambush in the vineyards  
Jd2121 and watch. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and snatch each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.  
Jd2122 And when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we did not take for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.’”  
Jd2123 And the people of Benjamin did so and took their wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off. Then they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the towns and lived in them.  
Jd2124 And the people of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.  
Jd2125 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.  
Ru0101 In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.  
Ru0102 The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.  
Ru0103 But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons.  
Ru0104 These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years,  
Ru0105 and both Mahlon and Chilion died, so that the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.  
Ru0106 Then she arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the LORD had visited his people and given them food.  
Ru0107 So she set out from the place where she was with her two daughters-in-law, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.  
Ru0108 But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.  
Ru0109 The LORD grant that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband!” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.  
Ru0110 And they said to her, “No, we will return with you to your people.”  
Ru0111 But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your husbands?  
Ru0112 Turn back, my daughters; go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons,  
Ru0113 would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”  
Ru0114 Then they lifted up their voices and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.  
Ru0115 And she said, “See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”  
Ru0116 But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.  
Ru0117 Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the LORD do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”  
Ru0118 And when Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more.  
Ru0119 So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them. And the women said, “Is this Naomi?”  
Ru0120 She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.  
Ru0121 I went away full, and the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi, when the LORD has testified against me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?”  
Ru0122 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.  
Ru0201 Now Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a worthy man of the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.  
Ru0202 And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”  
Ru0203 So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech.  
Ru0204 And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem. And he said to the reapers, “The LORD be with you!” And they answered, “The LORD bless you.”  
Ru0205 Then Boaz said to his young man who was in charge of the reapers, “Whose young woman is this?”  
Ru0206 And the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered, “She is the young Moabite woman, who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab.  
Ru0207 She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers.’ So she came, and she has continued from early morning until now, except for a short rest.”  
Ru0208 Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my young women.  
Ru0209 Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping, and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn.”  
Ru0210 Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?”  
Ru0211 But Boaz answered her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before.  
Ru0212 The LORD repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!”  
Ru0213 Then she said, “I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not one of your servants.”  
Ru0214 And at mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and eat some bread and dip your morsel in the wine.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her roasted grain. And she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over.  
Ru0215 When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her.  
Ru0216 And also pull out some from the bundles for her and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her.”  
Ru0217 So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.  
Ru0218 And she took it up and went into the city. Her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also brought out and gave her what food she had left over after being satisfied.  
Ru0219 And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”  
Ru0220 And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!” Naomi also said to her, “The man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers.”  
Ru0221 And Ruth the Moabite said, “Besides, he said to me, ‘You shall keep close by my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’”  
Ru0222 And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, lest in another field you be assaulted.”  
Ru0223 So she kept close to the young women of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests. And she lived with her mother-in-law.  
Ru0301 Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?  
Ru0302 Is not Boaz our relative, with whose young women you were? See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor.  
Ru0303 Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your cloak and go down to the threshing floor, but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.  
Ru0304 But when he lies down, observe the place where he lies. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down, and he will tell you what to do.”  
Ru0305 And she replied, “All that you say I will do.”  
Ru0306 So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had commanded her.  
Ru0307 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then she came softly and uncovered his feet and lay down.  
Ru0308 At midnight the man was startled and turned over, and behold, a woman lay at his feet!  
Ru0309 He said, “Who are you?” And she answered, “I am Ruth, your servant. Spread your wings over your servant, for you are a redeemer.”  
Ru0310 And he said, “May you be blessed by the LORD, my daughter. You have made this last kindness greater than the first in that you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich.  
Ru0311 And now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you all that you ask, for all my fellow townsmen know that you are a worthy woman.  
Ru0312 And now it is true that I am a redeemer. Yet there is a redeemer nearer than I.  
Ru0313 Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the LORD lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.”  
Ru0314 So she lay at his feet until the morning, but arose before one could recognize another. And he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”  
Ru0315 And he said, “Bring the garment you are wearing and hold it out.” So she held it, and he measured out six measures of barley and put it on her. Then she went into the city.  
Ru0316 And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, “How did you fare, my daughter?” Then she told her all that the man had done for her,  
Ru0317 saying, “These six measures of barley he gave to me, for he said to me, ‘You must not go back empty- handed to your mother-in-law.’”  
Ru0318 She replied, “Wait, my daughter, until you learn how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest but will settle the matter today.”  
Ru0401 Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, “Turn aside, friend; sit down here.” And he turned aside and sat down.  
Ru0402 And he took ten men of the elders of the city and said, “Sit down here.” So they sat down.  
Ru0403 Then he said to the redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land that belonged to our relative Elimelech.  
Ru0404 So I thought I would tell you of it and say, ‘Buy it in the presence of those sitting here and in the presence of the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it. But if you will not, tell me, that I may know, for there is no one besides you to redeem it, and I come after you.” And he said, “I will redeem it.”  
Ru0405 Then Boaz said, “The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance.”  
Ru0406 Then the redeemer said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it.”  
Ru0407 Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, the one drew off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was the manner of attesting in Israel.  
Ru0408 So when the redeemer said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself,” he drew off his sandal.  
Ru0409 Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and to Mahlon.  
Ru0410 Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.”  
Ru0411 Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem,  
Ru0412 and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring that the LORD will give you by this young woman.”  
Ru0413 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.  
Ru0414 Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel!  
Ru0415 He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”  
Ru0416 Then Naomi took the child and laid him on her lap and became his nurse.  
Ru0417 And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.  
Ru0418 Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez fathered Hezron,  
Ru0419 Hezron fathered Ram, Ram fathered Amminadab,  
Ru0420 Amminadab fathered Nahshon, Nahshon fathered Salmon,  
Ru0421 Salmon fathered Boaz, Boaz fathered Obed,  
Ru0422 Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David.  
1S0101 There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephrathite.  
1S0102 He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.  
1S0103 Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the LORD.  
1S0104 On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters.  
1S0105 But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the LORD had closed her womb.  
1S0106 And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the LORD had closed her womb.  
1S0107 So it went on year by year. As often as she went up to the house of the LORD, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.  
1S0108 And Elkanah, her husband, said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?”  
1S0109 After they had eaten and drunk in Shiloh, Hannah rose. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of the LORD.  
1S0110 She was deeply distressed and prayed to the LORD and wept bitterly.  
1S0111 And she vowed a vow and said, “O LORD of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.”  
1S0112 As she continued praying before the LORD, Eli observed her mouth.  
1S0113 Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman.  
1S0114 And Eli said to her, “How long will you go on being drunk? Put your wine away from you.”  
1S0115 But Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the LORD.  
1S0116 Do not regard your servant as a worthless woman, for all along I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation.”  
1S0117 Then Eli answered, “Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have made to him.”  
1S0118 And she said, “Let your servant find favor in your eyes.” Then the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad.  
1S0119 They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the LORD; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the LORD remembered her.  
1S0120 And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the LORD.”  
1S0121 The man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice and to pay his vow.  
1S0122 But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear in the presence of the LORD and dwell there forever.”  
1S0123 Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems best to you; wait until you have weaned him; only, may the LORD establish his word.” So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him.  
1S0124 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh. And the child was young.  
1S0125 Then they slaughtered the bull, and they brought the child to Eli.  
1S0126 And she said, “Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the LORD.  
1S0127 For this child I prayed, and the LORD has granted me my petition that I made to him.  
1S0128 Therefore I have lent him to the LORD. As long as he lives, he is lent to the LORD.” And he worshiped the LORD there.  
1S0201 And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the LORD; my horn is exalted in the LORD. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.  
1S0202 “There is none holy like the LORD: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God.  
1S0203 Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.  
1S0204 The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble bind on strength.  
1S0205 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.  
1S0206 The LORD kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up.  
1S0207 The LORD makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he exalts.  
1S0208 He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s, and on them he has set the world.  
1S0209 “He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness, for not by might shall a man prevail.  
1S0210 The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed.”  
1S0211 Then Elkanah went home to Ramah. And the boy was ministering to the LORD in the presence of Eli the priest.  
1S0212 Now the sons of Eli were worthless men. They did not know the LORD.  
1S0213 The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come, while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand,  
1S0214 and he would thrust it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or pot. All that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is what they did at Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.  
1S0215 Moreover, before the fat was burned, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give meat for the priest to roast, for he will not accept boiled meat from you but only raw.”  
1S0216 And if the man said to him, “Let them burn the fat first, and then take as much as you wish,” he would say, “No, you must give it now, and if not, I will take it by force.”  
1S0217 Thus the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of the LORD, for the men treated the offering of the LORD with contempt.  
1S0218 Samuel was ministering before the LORD, a boy clothed with a linen ephod.  
1S0219 And his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.  
1S0220 Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, “May the LORD give you children by this woman for the petition she asked of the LORD.” So then they would return to their home.  
1S0221 Indeed the LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew in the presence of the LORD.  
1S0222 Now Eli was very old, and he kept hearing all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who were serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting.  
1S0223 And he said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.  
1S0224 No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the LORD spreading abroad.  
1S0225 If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the LORD to put them to death.  
1S0226 Now the boy Samuel continued to grow both in stature and in favor with the LORD and also with man.  
1S0227 And there came a man of God to Eli and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Did I indeed reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt subject to the house of Pharaoh?  
1S0228 Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? I gave to the house of your father all my offerings by fire from the people of Israel.  
1S0229 Why then do you scorn my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded for my dwelling, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?’  
1S0230 Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ but now the LORD declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.  
1S0231 Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.  
1S0232 Then in distress you will look with envious eye on all the prosperity that shall be bestowed on Israel, and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.  
1S0233 The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep his eyes out to grieve his heart, and all the descendants of your house shall die by the sword of men.  
1S0234 And this that shall come upon your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day.  
1S0235 And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed forever.  
1S0236 And everyone who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, “Please put me in one of the priests’ places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”  
1S0301 Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD in the presence of Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.  
1S0302 At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place.  
1S0303 The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was.  
1S0304 Then the LORD called Samuel, and he said, “Here I am!”  
1S0305 and ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call; lie down again.” So he went and lay down.  
1S0306 And the LORD called again, “Samuel!” and Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call, my son; lie down again.”  
1S0307 Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, and the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him.  
1S0308 And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” Then Eli perceived that the LORD was calling the boy.  
1S0309 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down, and if he calls you, you shall say, ‘Speak, LORD, for your servant hears.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.  
1S0310 And the LORD came and stood, calling as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant hears.”  
1S0311 Then the LORD said to Samuel, “Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which the two ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.  
1S0312 On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.  
1S0313 And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.  
1S0314 Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever.”  
1S0315 Samuel lay until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli.  
1S0316 But Eli called Samuel and said, “Samuel, my son.” And he said, “Here I am.”  
1S0317 And Eli said, “What was it that he told you? Do not hide it from me. May God do so to you and more also if you hide anything from me of all that he told you.”  
1S0318 So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him. And he said, “It is the LORD. Let him do what seems good to him.”  
1S0319 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.  
1S0320 And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of the LORD.  
1S0321 And the LORD appeared again at Shiloh, for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the LORD.  
1S0401 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to battle against the Philistines. They encamped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped at Aphek.  
1S0402 The Philistines drew up in line against Israel, and when the battle spread, Israel was defeated before the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the field of battle.  
1S0403 And when the people came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the LORD defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD here from Shiloh, that it may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies.”  
1S0404 So the people sent to Shiloh and brought from there the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, who is enthroned on the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.  
1S0405 As soon as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel gave a mighty shout, so that the earth resounded.  
1S0406 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shouting, they said, “What does this great shouting in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” And when they learned that the ark of the LORD had come to the camp,  
1S0407 the Philistines were afraid, for they said, “A god has come into the camp.” And they said, “Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before.  
1S0408 Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness.  
1S0409 Take courage, and be men, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews as they have been to you; be men and fight.”  
1S0410 So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.  
1S0411 And the ark of God was captured, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.  
1S0412 A man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head.  
1S0413 When he arrived, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city and told the news, all the city cried out.  
1S0414 When Eli heard the sound of the outcry, he said, “What is this uproar?” Then the man hurried and came and told Eli.  
1S0415 Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes were set so that he could not see.  
1S0416 And the man said to Eli, “I am he who has come from the battle; I fled from the battle today.” And he said, “How did it go, my son?”  
1S0417 He who brought the news answered and said, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has also been a great defeat among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”  
1S0418 As soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.  
1S0419 Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. And when she heard the news that the ark of God was captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed and gave birth, for her pains came upon her.  
1S0420 And about the time of her death the women attending her said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you have borne a son.” But she did not answer or pay attention.  
1S0421 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.  
1S0422 And she said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”  
1S0501 When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.  
1S0502 Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon.  
1S0503 And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place.  
1S0504 But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off on the threshold. Only the trunk of Dagon was left to him.  
1S0505 This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.  
1S0506 The hand of the LORD was heavy against the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory.  
1S0507 And when the men of Ashdod saw how things were, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, for his hand is hard against us and against Dagon our god.”  
1S0508 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” They answered, “Let the ark of the God of Israel be brought around to Gath.” So they brought the ark of the God of Israel there.  
1S0509 But after they had brought it around, the hand of the LORD was against the city, causing a very great panic, and he afflicted the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them.  
1S0510 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. But as soon as the ark of God came to Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, “They have brought around to us the ark of the God of Israel to kill us and our people.”  
1S0511 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our people.” For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there.  
1S0512 The men who did not die were struck with tumors, and the cry of the city went up to heaven.  
1S0601 The ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.  
1S0602 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us with what we shall send it to its place.”  
1S0603 They said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, but by all means return him a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand does not turn away from you.”  
1S0604 And they said, “What is the guilt offering that we shall return to him?” They answered, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for the same plague was on all of you and on your lords.  
1S0605 So you must make images of your tumors and images of your mice that ravage the land, and give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you and your gods and your land.  
1S0606 Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had dealt severely with them, did they not send the people away, and they departed?  
1S0607 Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milk cows on which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them.  
1S0608 And take the ark of the LORD and place it on the cart and put in a box at its side the figures of gold, which you are returning to him as a guilt offering. Then send it off and let it go its way  
1S0609 and watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence.”  
1S0610 The men did so, and took two milk cows and yoked them to the cart and shut up their calves at home.  
1S0611 And they put the ark of the LORD on the cart and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.  
1S0612 And the cows went straight in the direction of Beth-shemesh along one highway, lowing as they went. They turned neither to the right nor to the left, and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the border of Beth-shemesh.  
1S0613 Now the people of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley. And when they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, they rejoiced to see it.  
1S0614 The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there. A great stone was there. And they split up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.  
1S0615 And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the box that was beside it, in which were the golden figures, and set them upon the great stone. And the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices on that day to the LORD.  
1S0616 And when the five lords of the Philistines saw it, they returned that day to Ekron.  
1S0617 These are the golden tumors that the Philistines returned as a guilt offering to the LORD: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron,  
1S0618 and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both fortified cities and unwalled villages. The great stone beside which they set down the ark of the LORD is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.  
1S0619 And he struck some of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked upon the ark of the LORD. He struck seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck the people with a great blow.  
1S0620 Then the men of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? And to whom shall he go up away from us?”  
1S0621 So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down and take it up to you.”  
1S0701 And the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took up the ark of the LORD and brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill. And they consecrated his son Eleazar to have charge of the ark of the LORD.  
1S0702 From the day that the ark was lodged at Kiriath-jearim, a long time passed, some twenty years, and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.  
1S0703 And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the LORD and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”  
1S0704 So the people of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and they served the LORD only.  
1S0705 Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD for you.”  
1S0706 So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the LORD and fasted on that day and said there, “We have sinned against the LORD.” And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.  
1S0707 Now when the Philistines heard that the people of Israel had gathered at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the people of Israel heard of it, they were afraid of the Philistines.  
1S0708 And the people of Israel said to Samuel, “Do not cease to cry out to the LORD our God for us, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines.”  
1S0709 So Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the LORD. And Samuel cried out to the LORD for Israel, and the LORD answered him.  
1S0710 As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to attack Israel. But the LORD thundered with a mighty sound that day against the Philistines and threw them into confusion, and they were defeated before Israel.  
1S0711 And the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and pursued the Philistines and struck them, as far as below Beth-car.  
1S0712 Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, “Till now the LORD has helped us.”  
1S0713 So the Philistines were subdued and did not again enter the territory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.  
1S0714 The cities that the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron to Gath, and Israel delivered their territory from the hand of the Philistines. There was peace also between Israel and the Amorites.  
1S0715 Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.  
1S0716 And he went on a circuit year by year to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah. And he judged Israel in all these places.  
1S0717 Then he would return to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he judged Israel. And he built there an altar to the LORD.  
1S0801 When Samuel became old, he made his sons judges over Israel.  
1S0802 The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba.  
1S0803 Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. They took bribes and perverted justice.  
1S0804 Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah  
1S0805 and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.”  
1S0806 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the LORD.  
1S0807 And the LORD said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.  
1S0808 According to all the deeds that they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you.  
1S0809 Now then, obey their voice; only you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.”  
1S0810 So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking for a king from him.  
1S0811 He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.  
1S0812 And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.  
1S0813 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.  
1S0814 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants.  
1S0815 He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.  
1S0816 He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men and your donkeys, and put them to his work.  
1S0817 He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.  
1S0818 And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day.”  
1S0819 But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, “No! But there shall be a king over us,  
1S0820 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”  
1S0821 And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the LORD.  
1S0822 And the LORD said to Samuel, “Obey their voice and make them a king.” Samuel then said to the men of Israel, “Go every man to his city.”  
1S0901 There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, a Benjaminite, a man of wealth.  
1S0902 And he had a son whose name was Saul, a handsome young man. There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he. From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people.  
1S0903 Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. So Kish said to Saul his son, “Take one of the young men with you, and arise, go and look for the donkeys.”  
1S0904 And he passed through the hill country of Ephraim and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they did not find them. And they passed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then they passed through the land of Benjamin, but did not find them.  
1S0905 When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come, let us go back, lest my father cease to care about the donkeys and become anxious about us.”  
1S0906 But he said to him, “Behold, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes true. So now let us go there. Perhaps he can tell us the way we should go.”  
1S0907 Then Saul said to his servant, “But if we go, what can we bring the man? For the bread in our sacks is gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?”  
1S0908 The servant answered Saul again, “Here, I have with me a quarter of a shekel of silver, and I will give it to the man of God to tell us our way.”  
1S0909 (Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for today’s “prophet” was formerly called a seer.)  
1S0910 And Saul said to his servant, “Well said; come, let us go.” So they went to the city where the man of God was.  
1S0911 As they went up the hill to the city, they met young women coming out to draw water and said to them, “Is the seer here?”  
1S0912 They answered, “He is; behold, he is just ahead of you. Hurry. He has come just now to the city, because the people have a sacrifice today on the high place.  
1S0913 As soon as you enter the city you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat till he comes, since he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited will eat. Now go up, for you will meet him immediately.”  
1S0914 So they went up to the city. As they were entering the city, they saw Samuel coming out toward them on his way up to the high place.  
1S0915 Now the day before Saul came, the LORD had revealed to Samuel:  
1S0916 “Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me.”  
1S0917 When Samuel saw Saul, the LORD told him, “Here is the man of whom I spoke to you! He it is who shall restrain my people.”  
1S0918 Then Saul approached Samuel in the gate and said, “Tell me where is the house of the seer?”  
1S0919 Samuel answered Saul, “I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for today you shall eat with me, and in the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is on your mind.  
1S0920 As for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, do not set your mind on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father’s house?”  
1S0921 Saul answered, “Am I not a Benjaminite, from the least of the tribes of Israel? And is not my clan the humblest of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then have you spoken to me in this way?”  
1S0922 Then Samuel took Saul and his young man and brought them into the hall and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited, who were about thirty persons.  
1S0923 And Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion I gave you, of which I said to you, ‘Put it aside.’”  
1S0924 So the cook took up the leg and what was on it and set them before Saul. And Samuel said, “See, what was kept is set before you. Eat, because it was kept for you until the hour appointed, that you might eat with the guests.” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.  
1S0925 And when they came down from the high place into the city, a bed was spread for Saul on the roof, and he lay down to sleep.  
1S0926 Then at the break of dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Up, that I may send you on your way.” So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went out into the street.  
1S0927 As they were going down to the outskirts of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to pass on before us, and when he has passed on, stop here yourself for a while, that I may make known to you the word of God.”  
1S1001 Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, “Has not the LORD anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the LORD and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the LORD has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.  
1S1002 When you depart from me today, you will meet two men by Rachel’s tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, ‘The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now your father has ceased to care about the donkeys and is anxious about you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?”’  
1S1003 Then you shall go on from there farther and come to the oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.  
1S1004 And they will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall accept from their hand.  
1S1005 After that you shall come to Gibeath-elohim, where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.  
1S1006 Then the Spirit of the LORD will rush upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man.  
1S1007 Now when these signs meet you, do what your hand finds to do, for God is with you.  
1S1008 Then go down before me to Gilgal. And behold, I am coming down to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Seven days you shall wait, until I come to you and show you what you shall do.”  
1S1009 When he turned his back to leave Samuel, God gave him another heart. And all these signs came to pass that day.  
1S1010 When they came to Gibeah, behold, a group of prophets met him, and the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied among them.  
1S1011 And when all who knew him previously saw how he prophesied with the prophets, the people said to one another, “What has come over the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”  
1S1012 And a man of the place answered, “And who is their father?” Therefore it became a proverb, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”  
1S1013 When he had finished prophesying, he came to the high place.  
1S1014 Saul’s uncle said to him and to his servant, “Where did you go?” And he said, “To seek the donkeys. And when we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel.”  
1S1015 And Saul’s uncle said, “Please tell me what Samuel said to you.”  
1S1016 And Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found.” But about the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him anything.  
1S1017 Now Samuel called the people together to the LORD at Mizpah.  
1S1018 And he said to the people of Israel, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’  
1S1019 But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, ‘Set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your thousands.”  
1S1020 Then Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot.  
1S1021 He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its clans, and the clan of the Matrites was taken by lot; and Saul the son of Kish was taken by lot. But when they sought him, he could not be found.  
1S1022 So they inquired again of the LORD, “Is there a man still to come?” and the LORD said, “Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage.”  
1S1023 Then they ran and took him from there. And when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.  
1S1024 And Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom the LORD has chosen? There is none like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”  
1S1025 Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the LORD. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home.  
1S1026 Saul also went to his home at Gibeah, and with him went men of valor whose hearts God had touched.  
1S1027 But some worthless fellows said, “How can this man save us?” And they despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace.  
1S1101 Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”  
1S1102 But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all your right eyes, and thus bring disgrace on all Israel.”  
1S1103 The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days’ respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you.”  
1S1104 When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people, and all the people wept aloud.  
1S1105 Now, behold, Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen. And Saul said, “What is wrong with the people, that they are weeping?” So they told him the news of the men of Jabesh.  
1S1106 And the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled.  
1S1107 He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!” Then the dread of the LORD fell upon the people, and they came out as one man.  
1S1108 When he mustered them at Bezek, the people of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.  
1S1109 And they said to the messengers who had come, “Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have salvation.’” When the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad.  
1S1110 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you.”  
1S1111 And the next day Saul put the people in three companies. And they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.  
1S1112 Then the people said to Samuel, “Who is it that said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring the men, that we may put them to death.”  
1S1113 But Saul said, “Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the LORD has worked salvation in Israel.”  
1S1114 Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingdom.”  
1S1115 So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal. There they sacrificed peace offerings before the LORD, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.  
1S1201 And Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have obeyed your voice in all that you have said to me and have made a king over you.  
1S1202 And now, behold, the king walks before you, and I am old and gray; and behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.  
1S1203 Here I am; testify against me before the LORD and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you.”  
1S1204 They said, “You have not defrauded us or oppressed us or taken anything from any man’s hand.”  
1S1205 And he said to them, “The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.” And they said, “He is witness.”  
1S1206 And Samuel said to the people, “The LORD is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.  
1S1207 Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the LORD concerning all the righteous deeds of the LORD that he performed for you and for your fathers.  
1S1208 When Jacob went into Egypt, and the Egyptians oppressed them, then your fathers cried out to the LORD and the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place.  
1S1209 But they forgot the LORD their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.  
1S1210 And they cried out to the LORD and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. But now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, that we may serve you.’  
1S1211 And the LORD sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety.  
1S1212 And when you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ when the LORD your God was your king.  
1S1213 And now behold the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked; behold, the LORD has set a king over you.  
1S1214 If you will fear the LORD and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God, it will be well.  
1S1215 But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then the hand of the LORD will be against you and your king.  
1S1216 Now therefore stand still and see this great thing that the LORD will do before your eyes.  
1S1217 Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call upon the LORD, that he may send thunder and rain. And you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking for yourselves a king.”  
1S1218 So Samuel called upon the LORD, and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.  
1S1219 And all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.”  
1S1220 And Samuel said to the people, “Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.  
1S1221 And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.  
1S1222 For the LORD will not forsake his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself.  
1S1223 Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.  
1S1224 Only fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.  
1S1225 But if you still do wickedly, you shall be swept away, both you and your king.”  
1S1301 Saul lived for one year and then became king, and when he had reigned for two years over Israel,  
1S1302 Saul chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.  
1S1303 Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines that was at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear.”  
1S1304 And all Israel heard it said that Saul had defeated the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become a stench to the Philistines. And the people were called out to join Saul at Gilgal.  
1S1305 And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.  
1S1306 When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns,  
1S1307 and some Hebrews crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.  
1S1308 He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.  
1S1309 So Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings.” And he offered the burnt offering.  
1S1310 As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him.  
1S1311 Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash,  
1S1312 I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the LORD.’ So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering.”  
1S1313 And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.  
1S1314 But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought out a man after his own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.”  
1S1315 And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal. The rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the army; they went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.  
1S1316 And Saul and Jonathan his son and the people who were present with them stayed in Geba of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.  
1S1317 And raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies. One company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual;  
1S1318 another company turned toward Beth-horon; and another company turned toward the border that looks down on the Valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.  
1S1319 Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.”  
1S1320 But every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle,  
1S1321 and the charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.  
1S1322 So on the day of the battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.  
1S1323 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.  
1S1401 One day Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who carried his armor, “Come, let us go over to the Philistine garrison on the other side.” But he did not tell his father.  
1S1402 Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah in the pomegranate cave at Migron. The people who were with him were about six hundred men,  
1S1403 including Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, the priest of the LORD in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.  
1S1404 Within the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistine garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side. The name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.  
1S1405 The one crag rose on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.  
1S1406 Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the LORD will work for us, for nothing can hinder the LORD from saving by many or by few.”  
1S1407 And his armor-bearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart. Do as you wish. Behold, I am with you heart and soul.”  
1S1408 Then Jonathan said, “Behold, we will cross over to the men, and we will show ourselves to them.  
1S1409 If they say to us, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stand still in our place, and we will not go up to them.  
1S1410 But if they say, ‘Come up to us,’ then we will go up, for the LORD has given them into our hand. And this shall be the sign to us.”  
1S1411 So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, “Look, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden themselves.”  
1S1412 And the men of the garrison hailed Jonathan and his armor-bearer and said, “Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.” And Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, “Come up after me, for the LORD has given them into the hand of Israel.”  
1S1413 Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, and his armor-bearer after him. And they fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer killed them after him.  
1S1414 And that first strike, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, killed about twenty men within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre of land.  
1S1415 And there was a panic in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and even the raiders trembled, the earth quaked, and it became a very great panic.  
1S1416 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude was dispersing here and there.  
1S1417 Then Saul said to the people who were with him, “Count and see who has gone from us.” And when they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armor-bearer were not there.  
1S1418 So Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring the ark of God here.” For the ark of God went at that time with the people of Israel.  
1S1419 Now while Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the camp of the Philistines increased more and more. So Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.”  
1S1420 Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and went into the battle. And behold, every Philistine’s sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion.  
1S1421 Now the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines before that time and who had gone up with them into the camp, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.  
1S1422 Likewise, when all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they too followed hard after them in the battle.  
1S1423 So the LORD saved Israel that day. And the battle passed beyond Beth-aven.  
1S1424 And the men of Israel had been hard pressed that day, so Saul had laid an oath on the people, saying, “Cursed be the man who eats food until it is evening and I am avenged on my enemies.” So none of the people had tasted food.  
1S1425 Now when all the people came to the forest, behold, there was honey on the ground.  
1S1426 And when the people entered the forest, behold, the honey was dropping, but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.  
1S1427 But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath, so he put out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes became bright.  
1S1428 Then one of the people said, “Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed be the man who eats food this day.’” And the people were faint.  
1S1429 Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. See how my eyes have become bright because I tasted a little of this honey.  
1S1430 How much better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies that they found. For now the defeat among the Philistines has not been great.”  
1S1431 They struck down the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint.  
1S1432 The people pounced on the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground. And the people ate them with the blood.  
1S1433 Then they told Saul, “Behold, the people are sinning against the LORD by eating with the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here.”  
1S1434 And Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, ‘Let every man bring his ox or his sheep and slaughter them here and eat, and do not sin against the LORD by eating with the blood.’” So every one of the people brought his ox with him that night and they slaughtered them there.  
1S1435 And Saul built an altar to the LORD; it was the first altar that he built to the LORD.  
1S1436 Then Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until the morning light; let us not leave a man of them.” And they said, “Do whatever seems good to you.” But the priest said, “Let us draw near to God here.”  
1S1437 And Saul inquired of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you give them into the hand of Israel?” But he did not answer him that day.  
1S1438 And Saul said, “Come here, all you leaders of the people, and know and see how this sin has arisen today.  
1S1439 For as the LORD lives who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.  
1S1440 Then he said to all Israel, “You shall be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.” And the people said to Saul, “Do what seems good to you.”  
1S1441 Therefore Saul said, “O LORD God of Israel, why have you not answered your servant this day? If this guilt is in me or in Jonathan my son, O LORD, God of Israel, give Urim. But if this guilt is in your people Israel, give Thummim.” And Jonathan and Saul were taken, but the people escaped.  
1S1442 Then Saul said, “Cast the lot between me and my son Jonathan.” And Jonathan was taken.  
1S1443 Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” And Jonathan told him, “I tasted a little honey with the tip of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am; I will die.”  
1S1444 And Saul said, “God do so to me and more also; you shall surely die, Jonathan.”  
1S1445 Then the people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day.” So the people ransomed Jonathan, so that he did not die.  
1S1446 Then Saul went up from pursuing the Philistines, and the Philistines went to their own place.  
1S1447 When Saul had taken the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned he routed them.  
1S1448 And he did valiantly and struck the Amalekites and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.  
1S1449 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchi-shua. And the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn was Merab, and the name of the younger Michal.  
1S1450 And the name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. And the name of the commander of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.  
1S1451 Kish was the father of Saul, and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.  
1S1452 There was hard fighting against the Philistines all the days of Saul. And when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he attached him to himself.  
1S1501 And Samuel said to Saul, “The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the LORD.  
1S1502 Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt.  
1S1503 Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”  
1S1504 So Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah.  
1S1505 And Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley.  
1S1506 Then Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart; go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.  
1S1507 And Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.  
1S1508 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword.  
1S1509 But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.  
1S1510 The word of the LORD came to Samuel:  
1S1511 “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the LORD all night.  
1S1512 And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.”  
1S1513 And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed be you to the LORD. I have performed the commandment of the LORD.”  
1S1514 And Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?”  
1S1515 Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the LORD your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.”  
1S1516 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! I will tell you what the LORD said to me this night.” And he said to him, “Speak.”  
1S1517 And Samuel said, “Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel.  
1S1518 And the LORD sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’  
1S1519 Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD? Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the LORD?”  
1S1520 And Saul said to Samuel, “I have obeyed the voice of the LORD. I have gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction.  
1S1521 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.”  
1S1522 And Samuel said, “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.  
1S1523 For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king.”  
1S1524 Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.  
1S1525 Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me that I may bow before the LORD.”  
1S1526 And Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.”  
1S1527 As Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore.  
1S1528 And Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.  
1S1529 And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.”  
1S1530 Then he said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may bow before the LORD your God.”  
1S1531 So Samuel turned back after Saul, and Saul bowed before the LORD.  
1S1532 Then Samuel said, “Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.” And Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”  
1S1533 And Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.  
1S1534 Then Samuel went to Ramah, and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul.  
1S1535 And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the LORD regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel.  
1S1601 The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”  
1S1602 And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” And the LORD said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’  
1S1603 And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you.”  
1S1604 Samuel did what the LORD commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling and said, “Do you come peaceably?”  
1S1605 And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.  
1S1606 When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, “Surely the LORD’s anointed is before him.”  
1S1607 But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”  
1S1608 Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, “Neither has the LORD chosen this one.”  
1S1609 Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, “Neither has the LORD chosen this one.”  
1S1610 And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, “The LORD has not chosen these.”  
1S1611 Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.”  
1S1612 And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the LORD said, “Arise, anoint him, for this is he.”  
1S1613 Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.  
1S1614 Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the LORD tormented him.  
1S1615 And Saul’s servants said to him, “Behold now, a harmful spirit from God is tormenting you.  
1S1616 Let our lord now command your servants who are before you to seek out a man who is skillful in playing the lyre, and when the harmful spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well.”  
1S1617 So Saul said to his servants, “Provide for me a man who can play well and bring him to me.”  
1S1618 One of the young men answered, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the LORD is with him.”  
1S1619 Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.”  
1S1620 And Jesse took a donkey laden with bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them by David his son to Saul.  
1S1621 And David came to Saul and entered his service. And Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor-bearer.  
1S1622 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for he has found favor in my sight.”  
1S1623 And whenever the harmful spirit from God was upon Saul, David took the lyre and played it with his hand. So Saul was refreshed and was well, and the harmful spirit departed from him.  
1S1701 Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle. And they were gathered at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes- dammim.  
1S1702 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered, and encamped in the Valley of Elah, and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines.  
1S1703 And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with a valley between them.  
1S1704 And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.  
1S1705 He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.  
1S1706 And he had bronze armor on his legs, and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders.  
1S1707 The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. And his shield-bearer went before him.  
1S1708 He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.  
1S1709 If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.”  
1S1710 And the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together.”  
1S1711 When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.  
1S1712 Now David was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years.  
1S1713 The three oldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.  
1S1714 David was the youngest. The three eldest followed Saul,  
1S1715 but David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.  
1S1716 For forty days the Philistine came forward and took his stand, morning and evening.  
1S1717 And Jesse said to David his son, “Take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers.  
1S1718 Also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See if your brothers are well, and bring some token from them.”  
1S1719 Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.  
1S1720 And David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the encampment as the host was going out to the battle line, shouting the war cry.  
1S1721 And Israel and the Philistines drew up for battle, army against army.  
1S1722 And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers.  
1S1723 As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines and spoke the same words as before. And David heard him.  
1S1724 All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him and were much afraid.  
1S1725 And the men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father’s house free in Israel.”  
1S1726 And David said to the men who stood by him, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”  
1S1727 And the people answered him in the same way, “So shall it be done to the man who kills him.”  
1S1728 Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”  
1S1729 And David said, “What have I done now? Was it not but a word?”  
1S1730 And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke in the same way, and the people answered him again as before.  
1S1731 When the words that David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him.  
1S1732 And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”  
1S1733 And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth.”  
1S1734 But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock,  
1S1735 I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him.  
1S1736 Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”  
1S1737 And David said, “The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and the LORD be with you!”  
1S1738 Then Saul clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail,  
1S1739 and David strapped his sword over his armor. And he tried in vain to go, for he had not tested them. Then David said to Saul, “I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.” So David put them off.  
1S1740 Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his shepherd’s pouch. His sling was in his hand, and he approached the Philistine.  
1S1741 And the Philistine moved forward and came near to David, with his shield-bearer in front of him.  
1S1742 And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance.  
1S1743 And the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.  
1S1744 The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.”  
1S1745 Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.  
1S1746 This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,  
1S1747 and that all this assembly may know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hand.”  
1S1748 When the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine.  
1S1749 And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.  
1S1750 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. There was no sword in the hand of David.  
1S1751 Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.  
1S1752 And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the Philistines as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron, so that the wounded Philistines fell on the way from Shaaraim as far as Gath and Ekron.  
1S1753 And the people of Israel came back from chasing the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.  
1S1754 And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.  
1S1755 As soon as Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?” And Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I do not know.”  
1S1756 And the king said, “Inquire whose son the boy is.”  
1S1757 And as soon as David returned from the striking down of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.  
1S1758 And Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” And David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.”  
1S1801 As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.  
1S1802 And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father’s house.  
1S1803 Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.  
1S1804 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt.  
1S1805 And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him, so that Saul set him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.  
1S1806 As they were coming home, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments.  
1S1807 And the women sang to one another as they celebrated, “Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”  
1S1808 And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands, and what more can he have but the kingdom?”  
1S1809 And Saul eyed David from that day on.  
1S1810 The next day a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raved within his house while David was playing the lyre, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand.  
1S1811 And Saul hurled the spear, for he thought, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David evaded him twice.  
1S1812 Saul was afraid of David because the LORD was with him but had departed from Saul.  
1S1813 So Saul removed him from his presence and made him a commander of a thousand. And he went out and came in before the people.  
1S1814 And David had success in all his undertakings, for the LORD was with him.  
1S1815 And when Saul saw that he had great success, he stood in fearful awe of him.  
1S1816 But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he went out and came in before them.  
1S1817 Then Saul said to David, “Here is my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” For Saul thought, “Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”  
1S1818 And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and who are my relatives, my father’s clan in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?”  
1S1819 But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife.  
1S1820 Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.  
1S1821 Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall now be my son-in-law.”  
1S1822 And Saul commanded his servants, “Speak to David in private and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now then become the king’s son-in-law.’”  
1S1823 And Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, “Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man and have no reputation?”  
1S1824 And the servants of Saul told him, “Thus and so did David speak.”  
1S1825 Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.  
1S1826 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in- law. Before the time had expired,  
1S1827 David arose and went, along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife.  
1S1828 But when Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him,  
1S1829 Saul was even more afraid of David. So Saul was David’s enemy continually.  
1S1830 Then the commanders of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out David had more success than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.  
1S1901 And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, delighted much in David.  
1S1902 And Jonathan told David, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Therefore be on your guard in the morning. Stay in a secret place and hide yourself.  
1S1903 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you. And if I learn anything I will tell you.”  
1S1904 And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Let not the king sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you.  
1S1905 For he took his life in his hand and he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?”  
1S1906 And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan. Saul swore, “As the LORD lives, he shall not be put to death.”  
1S1907 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan reported to him all these things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before.  
1S1908 And there was war again. And David went out and fought with the Philistines and struck them with a great blow, so that they fled before him.  
1S1909 Then a harmful spirit from the LORD came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing the lyre.  
1S1910 And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.  
1S1911 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”  
1S1912 So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped.  
1S1913 Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with the clothes.  
1S1914 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”  
1S1915 Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”  
1S1916 And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.  
1S1917 Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me thus and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” And Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go. Why should I kill you?’”  
1S1918 Now David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and lived at Naioth.  
1S1919 And it was told Saul, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.”  
1S1920 Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.  
1S1921 When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.  
1S1922 Then he himself went to Ramah and came to the great well that is in Secu. And he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” And one said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.”  
1S1923 And he went there to Naioth in Ramah. And the Spirit of God came upon him also, and as he went he prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah.  
1S1924 And he too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all that day and all that night. Thus it is said, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”  
1S2001 Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my guilt? And what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”  
1S2002 And he said to him, “Far from it! You shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me. And why should my father hide this from me? It is not so.”  
1S2003 But David vowed again, saying, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.’ But truly, as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”  
1S2004 Then Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you say, I will do for you.”  
1S2005 David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit at table with the king. But let me go, that I may hide myself in the field till the third day at evening.  
1S2006 If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me to run to Bethlehem his city, for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the clan.’  
1S2007 If he says, ‘Good!’ it will be well with your servant, but if he is angry, then know that harm is determined by him.  
1S2008 Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the LORD with you. But if there is guilt in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?”  
1S2009 And Jonathan said, “Far be it from you! If I knew that it was determined by my father that harm should come to you, would I not tell you?”  
1S2010 Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you roughly?”  
1S2011 And Jonathan said to David, “Come, let us go out into the field.” So they both went out into the field.  
1S2012 And Jonathan said to David, “The LORD, the God of Israel, be witness! When I have sounded out my father, about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if he is well disposed toward David, shall I not then send and disclose it to you?  
1S2013 But should it please my father to do you harm, the LORD do so to Jonathan and more also if I do not disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in safety. May the LORD be with you, as he has been with my father.  
1S2014 If I am still alive, show me the steadfast love of the LORD, that I may not die;  
1S2015 and do not cut off your steadfast love from my house forever, when the LORD cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.”  
1S2016 And Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the LORD take vengeance on David’s enemies.”  
1S2017 And Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him, for he loved him as he loved his own soul.  
1S2018 Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.  
1S2019 On the third day go down quickly to the place where you hid yourself when the matter was in hand, and remain beside the stone heap.  
1S2020 And I will shoot three arrows to the side of it, as though I shot at a mark.  
1S2021 And behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows.’ If I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you, take them,’ then you are to come, for, as the LORD lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.  
1S2022 But if I say to the youth, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then go, for the LORD has sent you away.  
1S2023 And as for the matter of which you and I have spoken, behold, the LORD is between you and me forever.”  
1S2024 So David hid himself in the field. And when the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food.  
1S2025 The king sat on his seat, as at other times, on the seat by the wall. Jonathan sat opposite, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty.  
1S2026 Yet Saul did not say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean; surely he is not clean.”  
1S2027 But on the second day, the day after the new moon, David’s place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has not the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”  
1S2028 Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem.  
1S2029 He said, ‘Let me go, for our clan holds a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away and see my brothers.’ For this reason he has not come to the king’s table.”  
1S2030 Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?  
1S2031 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Therefore send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die.”  
1S2032 Then Jonathan answered Saul his father, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”  
1S2033 But Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.  
1S2034 And Jonathan rose from the table in fierce anger and ate no food the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David, because his father had disgraced him.  
1S2035 In the morning Jonathan went out into the field to the appointment with David, and with him a little boy.  
1S2036 And he said to his boy, “Run and find the arrows that I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.  
1S2037 And when the boy came to the place of the arrow that Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called after the boy and said, “Is not the arrow beyond you?”  
1S2038 And Jonathan called after the boy, “Hurry! Be quick! Do not stay!” So Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows and came to his master.  
1S2039 But the boy knew nothing. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.  
1S2040 And Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy and said to him, “Go and carry them to the city.”  
1S2041 And as soon as the boy had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap and fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed one another and wept with one another, David weeping the most.  
1S2042 Then Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘The LORD shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” And he rose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city.  
1S2101 Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David, trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?”  
1S2102 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place.  
1S2103 Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever is here.”  
1S2104 And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women.”  
1S2105 And David answered the priest, “Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?”  
1S2106 So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the LORD, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.  
1S2107 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD. His name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s herdsmen.  
1S2108 Then David said to Ahimelech, “Then have you not here a spear or a sword at hand? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”  
1S2109 And the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here.” And David said, “There is none like that; give it to me.”  
1S2110 And David rose and fled that day from Saul and went to Achish the king of Gath.  
1S2111 And the servants of Achish said to him, “Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another of him in dances, ‘Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”  
1S2112 And David took these words to heart and was much afraid of Achish the king of Gath.  
1S2113 So he changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands and made marks on the doors of the gate and let his spittle run down his beard.  
1S2114 Then Achish said to his servants, “Behold, you see the man is mad. Why then have you brought him to me?  
1S2115 Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to behave as a madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?”  
1S2201 David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.  
1S2202 And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became commander over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.  
1S2203 And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother stay with you, till I know what God will do for me.”  
1S2204 And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.  
1S2205 Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.” So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.  
1S2206 Now Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.  
1S2207 And Saul said to his servants who stood about him, “Hear now, people of Benjamin; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds,  
1S2208 that all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day.”  
1S2209 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub,  
1S2210 and he inquired of the LORD for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”  
1S2211 Then the king sent to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were at Nob, and all of them came to the king.  
1S2212 And Saul said, “Hear now, son of Ahitub.” And he answered, “Here I am, my lord.”  
1S2213 And Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword and have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?”  
1S2214 Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and captain over your bodyguard, and honored in your house?  
1S2215 Is today the first time that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father, for your servant has known nothing of all this, much or little.”  
1S2216 And the king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s house.”  
1S2217 And the king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to strike the priests of the LORD.  
1S2218 Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn and strike the priests.” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.  
1S2219 And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey and sheep, he put to the sword.  
1S2220 But one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.  
1S2221 And Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of the LORD.  
1S2222 And David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father’s house.  
1S2223 Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. With me you shall be in safekeeping.”  
1S2301 Now they told David, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are robbing the threshing floors.”  
1S2302 Therefore David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?” And the LORD said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.”  
1S2303 But David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”  
1S2304 Then David inquired of the LORD again. And the LORD answered him, “Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.”  
1S2305 And David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines and brought away their livestock and struck them with a great blow. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.  
1S2306 When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech had fled to David to Keilah, he had come down with an ephod in his hand.  
1S2307 Now it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, “God has given him into my hand, for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars.”  
1S2308 And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.  
1S2309 David knew that Saul was plotting harm against him. And he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”  
1S2310 Then David said, “O LORD, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city on my account.  
1S2311 Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? O LORD, the God of Israel, please tell your servant.” And the LORD said, “He will come down.”  
1S2312 Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” And the LORD said, “They will surrender you.”  
1S2313 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition.  
1S2314 And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.  
1S2315 David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh.  
1S2316 And Jonathan, Saul’s son, rose and went to David at Horesh, and strengthened his hand in God.  
1S2317 And he said to him, “Do not fear, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you. You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you. Saul my father also knows this.”  
1S2318 And the two of them made a covenant before the LORD. David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went home.  
1S2319 Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of Jeshimon?  
1S2320 Now come down, O king, according to all your heart’s desire to come down, and our part shall be to surrender him into the king’s hand.”  
1S2321 And Saul said, “May you be blessed by the LORD, for you have had compassion on me.  
1S2322 Go, make yet more sure. Know and see the place where his foot is, and who has seen him there, for it is told me that he is very cunning.  
1S2323 See therefore and take note of all the lurking places where he hides, and come back to me with sure information. Then I will go with you. And if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”  
1S2324 And they arose and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon.  
1S2325 And Saul and his men went to seek him. And David was told, so he went down to the rock and lived in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.  
1S2326 Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain. And David was hurrying to get away from Saul. As Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them,  
1S2327 a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid against the land.”  
1S2328 So Saul returned from pursuing after David and went against the Philistines. Therefore that place was called the Rock of Escape.  
1S2329 And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of Engedi.  
1S2401 When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.”  
1S2402 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the Wildgoats’ Rocks.  
1S2403 And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.  
1S2404 And the men of David said to him, “Here is the day of which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’” Then David arose and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.  
1S2405 And afterward David’s heart struck him, because he had cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.  
1S2406 He said to his men, “The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD’s anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD’s anointed.”  
1S2407 So David persuaded his men with these words and did not permit them to attack Saul. And Saul rose up and left the cave and went on his way.  
1S2408 Afterward David also arose and went out of the cave, and called after Saul, “My lord the king!” And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth and paid homage.  
1S2409 And David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Behold, David seeks your harm’?  
1S2410 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD’s anointed.’  
1S2411 See, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand. For by the fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill you, you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt my life to take it.  
1S2412 May the LORD judge between me and you, may the LORD avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you.  
1S2413 As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness.’ But my hand shall not be against you.  
1S2414 After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea!  
1S2415 May the LORD therefore be judge and give sentence between me and you, and see to it and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand.”  
1S2416 As soon as David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.  
1S2417 He said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have repaid me good, whereas I have repaid you evil.  
1S2418 And you have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the LORD put me into your hands.  
1S2419 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safe? So may the LORD reward you with good for what you have done to me this day.  
1S2420 And now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.  
1S2421 Swear to me therefore by the LORD that you will not cut off my offspring after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father’s house.”  
1S2422 And David swore this to Saul. Then Saul went home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.  
1S2501 Now Samuel died. And all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.  
1S2502 And there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.  
1S2503 Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved; he was a Calebite.  
1S2504 David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.  
1S2505 So David sent ten young men. And David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal and greet him in my name.  
1S2506 And thus you shall greet him: ‘Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.  
1S2507 I hear that you have shearers. Now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing all the time they were in Carmel.  
1S2508 Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on a feast day. Please give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.’”  
1S2509 When David’s young men came, they said all this to Nabal in the name of David, and then they waited.  
1S2510 And Nabal answered David’s servants, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants these days who are breaking away from their masters.  
1S2511 Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers and give it to men who come from I do not know where?”  
1S2512 So David’s young men turned away and came back and told him all this.  
1S2513 And David said to his men, “Every man strap on his sword!” And every man of them strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. And about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.  
1S2514 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed at them.  
1S2515 Yet the men were very good to us, and we suffered no harm, and we did not miss anything when we were in the fields, as long as we went with them.  
1S2516 They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.  
1S2517 Now therefore know this and consider what you should do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is such a worthless man that one cannot speak to him.”  
1S2518 Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.  
1S2519 And she said to her young men, “Go on before me; behold, I come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.  
1S2520 And as she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.  
1S2521 Now David had said, “Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, and he has returned me evil for good.  
1S2522 God do so to the enemies of David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.”  
1S2523 When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got down from the donkey and fell before David on her face and bowed to the ground.  
1S2524 She fell at his feet and said, “On me alone, my lord, be the guilt. Please let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant.  
1S2525 Let not my lord regard this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.  
1S2526 Now then, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, because the LORD has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.  
1S2527 And now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.  
1S2528 Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the LORD, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.  
1S2529 If men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the LORD your God. And the lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.  
1S2530 And when the LORD has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and has appointed you prince over Israel,  
1S2531 my lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause or for my lord working salvation himself. And when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”  
1S2532 And David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!  
1S2533 Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from working salvation with my own hand!  
1S2534 For as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male.”  
1S2535 Then David received from her hand what she had brought him. And he said to her, “Go up in peace to your house. See, I have obeyed your voice, and I have granted your petition.”  
1S2536 And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until the morning light.  
1S2537 In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.  
1S2538 And about ten days later the LORD struck Nabal, and he died.  
1S2539 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the LORD who has avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from wrongdoing. The LORD has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent and spoke to Abigail, to take her as his wife.  
1S2540 When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.”  
1S2541 And she rose and bowed with her face to the ground and said, “Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”  
1S2542 And Abigail hurried and rose and mounted a donkey, and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife.  
1S2543 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and both of them became his wives.  
1S2544 Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.  
1S2601 Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding himself on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the east of Jeshimon?”  
1S2602 So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph with three thousand chosen men of Israel to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.  
1S2603 And Saul encamped on the hill of Hachilah, which is beside the road on the east of Jeshimon. But David remained in the wilderness. When he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness,  
1S2604 David sent out spies and learned that Saul had indeed come.  
1S2605 Then David rose and came to the place where Saul had encamped. And David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army. Saul was lying within the encampment, while the army was encamped around him.  
1S2606 Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Joab’s brother Abishai the son of Zeruiah, “Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?” And Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”  
1S2607 So David and Abishai went to the army by night. And there lay Saul sleeping within the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the army lay around him.  
1S2608 Then Abishai said to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand this day. Now please let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice.”  
1S2609 But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the LORD’s anointed and be guiltless?”  
1S2610 And David said, “As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.  
1S2611 The LORD forbid that I should put out my hand against the LORD’s anointed. But take now the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go.”  
1S2612 So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head, and they went away. No man saw it or knew it, nor did any awake, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen upon them.  
1S2613 Then David went over to the other side and stood far off on the top of the hill, with a great space between them.  
1S2614 And David called to the army, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, “Will you not answer, Abner?” Then Abner answered, “Who are you who calls to the king?”  
1S2615 And David said to Abner, “Are you not a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.  
1S2616 This thing that you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD’s anointed. And now see where the king’s spear is and the jar of water that was at his head.”  
1S2617 Saul recognized David’s voice and said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” And David said, “It is my voice, my lord, O king.”  
1S2618 And he said, “Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? What evil is on my hands?  
1S2619 Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the LORD who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering, but if it is men, may they be cursed before the LORD, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’  
1S2620 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD, for the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.”  
1S2621 Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have acted foolishly, and have made a great mistake.”  
1S2622 And David answered and said, “Here is the spear, O king! Let one of the young men come over and take it.  
1S2623 The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the LORD gave you into my hand today, and I would not put out my hand against the LORD’s anointed.  
1S2624 Behold, as your life was precious this day in my sight, so may my life be precious in the sight of the LORD, and may he deliver me out of all tribulation.”  
1S2625 Then Saul said to David, “Blessed be you, my son David! You will do many things and will succeed in them.” So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.  
1S2701 Then David said in his heart, “Now I shall perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.”  
1S2702 So David arose and went over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.  
1S2703 And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, Nabal’s widow.  
1S2704 And when it was told Saul that David had fled to Gath, he no longer sought him.  
1S2705 Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be given me in one of the country towns, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?”  
1S2706 So that day Achish gave him Ziklag. Therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day.  
1S2707 And the number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.  
1S2708 Now David and his men went up and made raids against the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt.  
1S2709 And David would strike the land and would leave neither man nor woman alive, but would take away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the garments, and come back to Achish.  
1S2710 When Achish asked, “Where have you made a raid today?” David would say, “Against the Negeb of Judah,” or, “Against the Negeb of the Jerahmeelites,” or, “Against the Negeb of the Kenites.”  
1S2711 And David would leave neither man nor woman alive to bring news to Gath, thinking, “lest they should tell about us and say, ‘So David has done.’” Such was his custom all the while he lived in the country of the Philistines.  
1S2712 And Achish trusted David, thinking, “He has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel; therefore he shall always be my servant.”  
1S2801 In those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war, to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, “Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army.”  
1S2802 David said to Achish, “Very well, you shall know what your servant can do.” And Achish said to David, “Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life.”  
1S2803 Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the necromancers out of the land.  
1S2804 The Philistines assembled and came and encamped at Shunem. And Saul gathered all Israel, and they encamped at Gilboa.  
1S2805 When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.  
1S2806 And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.  
1S2807 Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a medium at En-dor.”  
1S2808 So Saul disguised himself and put on other garments and went, he and two men with him. And they came to the woman by night. And he said, “Divine for me by a spirit and bring up for me whomever I shall name to you.”  
1S2809 The woman said to him, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the necromancers from the land. Why then are you laying a trap for my life to bring about my death?”  
1S2810 But Saul swore to her by the LORD, “As the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing.”  
1S2811 Then the woman said, “Whom shall I bring up for you?” He said, “Bring up Samuel for me.”  
1S2812 When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice. And the woman said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul.”  
1S2813 The king said to her, “Do not be afraid. What do you see?” And the woman said to Saul, “I see a god coming up out of the earth.”  
1S2814 He said to her, “What is his appearance?” And she said, “An old man is coming up, and he is wrapped in a robe.” And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground and paid homage.  
1S2815 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul answered, “I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do.”  
1S2816 And Samuel said, “Why then do you ask me, since the LORD has turned from you and become your enemy?  
1S2817 The LORD has done to you as he spoke by me, for the LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David.  
1S2818 Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, therefore the LORD has done this thing to you this day.  
1S2819 Moreover, the LORD will give Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me. The LORD will give the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.”  
1S2820 Then Saul fell at once full length on the ground, filled with fear because of the words of Samuel. And there was no strength in him, for he had eaten nothing all day and all night.  
1S2821 And the woman came to Saul, and when she saw that he was terrified, she said to him, “Behold, your servant has obeyed you. I have taken my life in my hand and have listened to what you have said to me.  
1S2822 Now therefore, you also obey your servant. Let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way.”  
1S2823 He refused and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, urged him, and he listened to their words. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.  
1S2824 Now the woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly killed it, and she took flour and kneaded it and baked unleavened bread of it,  
1S2825 and she put it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they rose and went away that night.  
1S2901 Now the Philistines had gathered all their forces at Aphek. And the Israelites were encamped by the spring that is in Jezreel.  
1S2902 As the lords of the Philistines were passing on by hundreds and by thousands, and David and his men were passing on in the rear with Achish,  
1S2903 the commanders of the Philistines said, “What are these Hebrews doing here?” And Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, “Is this not David, the servant of Saul, king of Israel, who has been with me now for days and years, and since he deserted to me I have found no fault in him to this day.”  
1S2904 But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him. And the commanders of the Philistines said to him, “Send the man back, that he may return to the place to which you have assigned him. He shall not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For how could this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of the men here?  
1S2905 Is not this David, of whom they sing to one another in dances, ‘Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”  
1S2906 Then Achish called David and said to him, “As the LORD lives, you have been honest, and to me it seems right that you should march out and in with me in the campaign. For I have found nothing wrong in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords do not approve of you.  
1S2907 So go back now; and go peaceably, that you may not displease the lords of the Philistines.”  
1S2908 And David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day I entered your service until now, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”  
1S2909 And Achish answered David and said, “I know that you are as blameless in my sight as an angel of God. Nevertheless, the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’  
1S2910 Now then rise early in the morning with the servants of your lord who came with you, and start early in the morning, and depart as soon as you have light.”  
1S2911 So David set out with his men early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to Jezreel.  
1S3001 Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid against the Negeb and against Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag and burned it with fire  
1S3002 and taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They killed no one, but carried them off and went their way.  
1S3003 And when David and his men came to the city, they found it burned with fire, and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.  
1S3004 Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept until they had no more strength to weep.  
1S3005 David’s two wives also had been taken captive, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.  
1S3006 And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.  
1S3007 And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought the ephod to David.  
1S3008 And David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue.”  
1S3009 So David set out, and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.  
1S3010 But David pursued, he and four hundred men. Two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor.  
1S3011 They found an Egyptian in the open country and brought him to David. And they gave him bread and he ate. They gave him water to drink,  
1S3012 and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten, his spirit revived, for he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.  
1S3013 And David said to him, “To whom do you belong? And where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite, and my master left me behind because I fell sick three days ago.  
1S3014 We had made a raid against the Negeb of the Cherethites and against that which belongs to Judah and against the Negeb of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.”  
1S3015 And David said to him, “Will you take me down to this band?” And he said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will take you down to this band.”  
1S3016 And when he had taken him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.  
1S3017 And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day, and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled.  
1S3018 David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and David rescued his two wives.  
1S3019 Nothing was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken. David brought back all.  
1S3020 David also captured all the flocks and herds, and the people drove the livestock before him, and said, “This is David’s spoil.”  
1S3021 Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow David, and who had been left at the brook Besor. And they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him. And when David came near to the people he greeted them.  
1S3022 Then all the wicked and worthless fellows among the men who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except that each man may lead away his wife and children, and depart.”  
1S3023 But David said, “You shall not do so, my brothers, with what the LORD has given us. He has preserved us and given into our hand the band that came against us.  
1S3024 Who would listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage. They shall share alike.”  
1S3025 And he made it a statute and a rule for Israel from that day forward to this day.  
1S3026 When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the LORD.”  
1S3027 It was for those in Bethel, in Ramoth of the Negeb, in Jattir,  
1S3028 in Aroer, in Siphmoth, in Eshtemoa,  
1S3029 in Racal, in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, in the cities of the Kenites,  
1S3030 in Hormah, in Bor-ashan, in Athach,  
1S3031 in Hebron, for all the places where David and his men had roamed.  
1S3101 Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.  
1S3102 And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines struck down Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.  
1S3103 The battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers found him, and he was badly wounded by the archers.  
1S3104 Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.  
1S3105 And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died with him.  
1S3106 Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together.  
1S3107 And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. And the Philistines came and lived in them.  
1S3108 The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.  
1S3109 So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to the house of their idols and to the people.  
1S3110 They put his armor in the temple of Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.  
1S3111 But when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,  
1S3112 all the valiant men arose and went all night and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there.  
1S3113 And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and fasted seven days.  
2S0101 After the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag.  
2S0102 And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul’s camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage.  
2S0103 David said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.”  
2S0104 And David said to him, “How did it go? Tell me.” And he answered, “The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.”  
2S0105 Then David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”  
2S0106 And the young man who told him said, “By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on his spear, and behold, the chariots and the horsemen were close upon him.  
2S0107 And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. And I answered, ‘Here I am.’  
2S0108 And he said to me, ‘Who are you?’ I answered him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’  
2S0109 And he said to me, ‘Stand beside me and kill me, for anguish has seized me, and yet my life still lingers.’  
2S0110 So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. And I took the crown that was on his head and the armlet that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.”  
2S0111 Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so did all the men who were with him.  
2S0112 And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the LORD and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.  
2S0113 And David said to the young man who told him, “Where do you come from?” And he answered, “I am the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite.”  
2S0114 David said to him, “How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”  
2S0115 Then David called one of the young men and said, “Go, execute him.” And he struck him down so that he died.  
2S0116 And David said to him, “Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed the LORD’s anointed.’”  
2S0117 And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son,  
2S0118 and he said it should be taught to the people of Judah; behold, it is written in the Book of Jashar. He said:  
2S0119 “Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!  
2S0120 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.  
2S0121 “You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor fields of offerings! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.  
2S0122 “From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.  
2S0123 “Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! In life and in death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions.  
2S0124 “You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you luxuriously in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.  
2S0125 “How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! “Jonathan lies slain on your high places.  
2S0126 I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.  
2S0127 “How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war perished!”  
2S0201 After this David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?” And the LORD said to him, “Go up.” David said, “To which shall I go up?” And he said, “To Hebron.”  
2S0202 So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.  
2S0203 And David brought up his men who were with him, everyone with his household, and they lived in the towns of Hebron.  
2S0204 And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, “It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,”  
2S0205 David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead and said to them, “May you be blessed by the LORD, because you showed this loyalty to Saul your lord and buried him.  
2S0206 Now may the LORD show steadfast love and faithfulness to you. And I will do good to you because you have done this thing.  
2S0207 Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant, for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.”  
2S0208 But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul’s army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim,  
2S0209 and he made him king over Gilead and the Ashurites and Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin and all Israel.  
2S0210 Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.  
2S0211 And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.  
2S0212 Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.  
2S0213 And Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out and met them at the pool of Gibeon. And they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.  
2S0214 And Abner said to Joab, “Let the young men arise and compete before us.” And Joab said, “Let them arise.”  
2S0215 Then they arose and passed over by number, twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.  
2S0216 And each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his opponent’s side, so they fell down together. Therefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is at Gibeon.  
2S0217 And the battle was very fierce that day. And Abner and the men of Israel were beaten before the servants of David.  
2S0218 And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was as swift of foot as a wild gazelle.  
2S0219 And Asahel pursued Abner, and as he went, he turned neither to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.  
2S0220 Then Abner looked behind him and said, “Is it you, Asahel?” And he answered, “It is I.”  
2S0221 Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and seize one of the young men and take his spoil.” But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.  
2S0222 And Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Joab?”  
2S0223 But he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner struck him in the stomach with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back. And he fell there and died where he was. And all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, stood still.  
2S0224 But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. And as the sun was going down they came to the hill of Ammah, which lies before Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.  
2S0225 And the people of Benjamin gathered themselves together behind Abner and became one group and took their stand on the top of a hill.  
2S0226 Then Abner called to Joab, “Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you tell your people to turn from the pursuit of their brothers?”  
2S0227 And Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely the men would not have given up the pursuit of their brothers until the morning.”  
2S0228 So Joab blew the trumpet, and all the men stopped and pursued Israel no more, nor did they fight anymore.  
2S0229 And Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah. They crossed the Jordan, and marching the whole morning, they came to Mahanaim.  
2S0230 Joab returned from the pursuit of Abner. And when he had gathered all the people together, there were missing from David’s servants nineteen men besides Asahel.  
2S0231 But the servants of David had struck down of Benjamin 360 of Abner’s men.  
2S0232 And they took up Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was at Bethlehem. And Joab and his men marched all night, and the day broke upon them at Hebron.  
2S0301 There was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul became weaker and weaker.  
2S0302 And sons were born to David at Hebron: his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam of Jezreel;  
2S0303 and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;  
2S0304 and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;  
2S0305 and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.  
2S0306 While there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner was making himself strong in the house of Saul.  
2S0307 Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ish-bosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”  
2S0308 Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, “Am I a dog’s head of Judah? To this day I keep showing steadfast love to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David. And yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman.  
2S0309 God do so to Abner and more also, if I do not accomplish for David what the LORD has sworn to him,  
2S0310 to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”  
2S0311 And Ish-bosheth could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.  
2S0312 And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you to bring over all Israel to you.”  
2S0313 And he said, “Good; I will make a covenant with you. But one thing I require of you; that is, you shall not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see my face.”  
2S0314 Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, for whom I paid the bridal price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”  
2S0315 And Ish-bosheth sent and took her from her husband Paltiel the son of Laish.  
2S0316 But her husband went with her, weeping after her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go, return.” And he returned.  
2S0317 And Abner conferred with the elders of Israel, saying, “For some time past you have been seeking David as king over you.  
2S0318 Now then bring it about, for the LORD has promised David, saying, ‘By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and from the hand of all their enemies.’”  
2S0319 Abner also spoke to Benjamin. And then Abner went to tell David at Hebron all that Israel and the whole house of Benjamin thought good to do.  
2S0320 When Abner came with twenty men to David at Hebron, David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.  
2S0321 And Abner said to David, “I will arise and go and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your heart desires.” So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.  
2S0322 Just then the servants of David arrived with Joab from a raid, bringing much spoil with them. But Abner was not with David at Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.  
2S0323 When Joab and all the army that was with him came, it was told Joab, “Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has let him go, and he has gone in peace.”  
2S0324 Then Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, so that he is gone?  
2S0325 You know that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing.”  
2S0326 When Joab came out from David’s presence, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern of Sirah. But David did not know about it.  
2S0327 And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the stomach, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.  
2S0328 Afterward, when David heard of it, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD for the blood of Abner the son of Ner.  
2S0329 May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father’s house, and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge or who is leprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!”  
2S0330 So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.  
2S0331 Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner.” And King David followed the bier.  
2S0332 They buried Abner at Hebron. And the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner, and all the people wept.  
2S0333 And the king lamented for Abner, saying, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?  
2S0334 Your hands were not bound; your feet were not fettered; as one falls before the wicked you have fallen.” And all the people wept again over him.  
2S0335 Then all the people came to persuade David to eat bread while it was yet day. But David swore, saying, “God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread or anything else till the sun goes down!”  
2S0336 And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them, as everything that the king did pleased all the people.  
2S0337 So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king’s will to put to death Abner the son of Ner.  
2S0338 And the king said to his servants, “Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?  
2S0339 And I was gentle today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are more severe than I. The LORD repay the evildoer according to his wickedness!”  
2S0401 When Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, heard that Abner had died at Hebron, his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed.  
2S0402 Now Saul’s son had two men who were captains of raiding bands; the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon a man of Benjamin from Beeroth (for Beeroth also is counted part of Benjamin;  
2S0403 the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been sojourners there to this day).  
2S0404 Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled, and as she fled in her haste, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.  
2S0405 Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bosheth as he was taking his noonday rest.  
2S0406 And they came into the midst of the house as if to get wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.  
2S0407 When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and put him to death and beheaded him. They took his head and went by the way of the Arabah all night,  
2S0408 and brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life. The LORD has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring.”  
2S0409 But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity,  
2S0410 when one told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.  
2S0411 How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?”  
2S0412 And David commanded his young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish- bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.  
2S0501 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and flesh.  
2S0502 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the LORD said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.’”  
2S0503 So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel.  
2S0504 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.  
2S0505 At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.  
2S0506 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, “You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off”—thinking, “David cannot come in here.”  
2S0507 Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.  
2S0508 And David said on that day, “Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack ‘the lame and the blind,’ who are hated by David’s soul.” Therefore it is said, “The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.”  
2S0509 And David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward.  
2S0510 And David became greater and greater, for the LORD, the God of hosts, was with him.  
2S0511 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.  
2S0512 And David knew that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.  
2S0513 And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David.  
2S0514 And these are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,  
2S0515 Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,  
2S0516 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.  
2S0517 When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.  
2S0518 Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.  
2S0519 And David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand?” And the LORD said to David, “Go up, for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand.”  
2S0520 And David came to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there. And he said, “The LORD has broken through my enemies before me like a breaking flood.” Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.  
2S0521 And the Philistines left their idols there, and David and his men carried them away.  
2S0522 And the Philistines came up yet again and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.  
2S0523 And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, “You shall not go up; go around to their rear, and come against them opposite the balsam trees.  
2S0524 And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then rouse yourself, for then the LORD has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines.”  
2S0525 And David did as the LORD commanded him, and struck down the Philistines from Geba to Gezer.  
2S0601 David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.  
2S0602 And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale-judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the LORD of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim.  
2S0603 And they carried the ark of God on a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. And Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart,  
2S0604 with the ark of God, and Ahio went before the ark.  
2S0605 And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.  
2S0606 And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.  
2S0607 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God struck him down there because of his error, and he died there beside the ark of God.  
2S0608 And David was angry because the LORD had broken out against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez-uzzah to this day.  
2S0609 And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and he said, “How can the ark of the LORD come to me?”  
2S0610 So David was not willing to take the ark of the LORD into the city of David. But David took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.  
2S0611 And the ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months, and the LORD blessed Obed-edom and all his household.  
2S0612 And it was told King David, “The LORD has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing.  
2S0613 And when those who bore the ark of the LORD had gone six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal.  
2S0614 And David danced before the LORD with all his might. And David was wearing a linen ephod.  
2S0615 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting and with the sound of the horn.  
2S0616 As the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.  
2S0617 And they brought in the ark of the LORD and set it in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.  
2S0618 And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts  
2S0619 and distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins to each one. Then all the people departed, each to his house.  
2S0620 And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, “How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants’ female servants, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”  
2S0621 And David said to Michal, “It was before the LORD, who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of the LORD—and I will celebrate before the LORD.  
2S0622 I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your eyes. But by the female servants of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor.”  
2S0623 And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.  
2S0701 Now when the king lived in his house and the LORD had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies,  
2S0702 the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.”  
2S0703 And Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”  
2S0704 But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan,  
2S0705 “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD: Would you build me a house to dwell in?  
2S0706 I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling.  
2S0707 In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’  
2S0708 Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.  
2S0709 And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.  
2S0710 And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly,  
2S0711 from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the LORD declares to you that the LORD will make you a house.  
2S0712 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.  
2S0713 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.  
2S0714 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,  
2S0715 but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.  
2S0716 And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’”  
2S0717 In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.  
2S0718 Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?  
2S0719 And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord GOD. You have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord GOD!  
2S0720 And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord GOD!  
2S0721 Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it.  
2S0722 Therefore you are great, O LORD God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.  
2S0723 And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?  
2S0724 And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O LORD, became their God.  
2S0725 And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, and do as you have spoken.  
2S0726 And your name will be magnified forever, saying, ‘The LORD of hosts is God over Israel,’ and the house of your servant David will be established before you.  
2S0727 For you, O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.  
2S0728 And now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.  
2S0729 Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord GOD, have spoken, and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever.”  
2S0801 After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.  
2S0802 And he defeated Moab and he measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.  
2S0803 David also defeated Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphrates.  
2S0804 And David took from him 1,700 horsemen, and 20,000 foot soldiers. And David hamstrung all the chariot horses but left enough for 100 chariots.  
2S0805 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down 22,000 men of the Syrians.  
2S0806 Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David and brought tribute. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.  
2S0807 And David took the shields of gold that were carried by the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.  
2S0808 And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took very much bronze.  
2S0809 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadadezer,  
2S0810 Toi sent his son Joram to King David, to ask about his health and to bless him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer had often been at war with Toi. And Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold, and of bronze.  
2S0811 These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,  
2S0812 from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.  
2S0813 And David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.  
2S0814 Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David’s servants. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.  
2S0815 So David reigned over all Israel. And David administered justice and equity to all his people.  
2S0816 Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder,  
2S0817 and Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, and Seraiah was secretary,  
2S0818 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David’s sons were priests.  
2S0901 And David said, “Is there still anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”  
2S0902 Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David. And the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” And he said, “I am your servant.”  
2S0903 And the king said, “Is there not still someone of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him?” Ziba said to the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan; he is crippled in his feet.”  
2S0904 The king said to him, “Where is he?” And Ziba said to the king, “He is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar.”  
2S0905 Then King David sent and brought him from the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar.  
2S0906 And Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and paid homage. And David said, “Mephibosheth!” And he answered, “Behold, I am your servant.”  
2S0907 And David said to him, “Do not fear, for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father, and you shall eat at my table always.”  
2S0908 And he paid homage and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog such as I?”  
2S0909 Then the king called Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s grandson.  
2S0910 And you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him and shall bring in the produce, that your master’s grandson may have bread to eat. But Mephibosheth your master’s grandson shall always eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.  
2S0911 Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so will your servant do.” So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table, like one of the king’s sons.  
2S0912 And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. And all who lived in Ziba’s house became Mephibosheth’s servants.  
2S0913 So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate always at the king’s table. Now he was lame in both his feet.  
2S1001 After this the king of the Ammonites died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.  
2S1002 And David said, “I will deal loyally with Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father dealt loyally with me.” So David sent by his servants to console him concerning his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the Ammonites.  
2S1003 But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it?”  
2S1004 So Hanun took David’s servants and shaved off half the beard of each and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away.  
2S1005 When it was told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, “Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown and then return.”  
2S1006 When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob, 12,000 men.  
2S1007 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the host of the mighty men.  
2S1008 And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the gate, and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.  
2S1009 When Joab saw that the battle was set against him both in front and in the rear, he chose some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Syrians.  
2S1010 The rest of his men he put in the charge of Abishai his brother, and he arrayed them against the Ammonites.  
2S1011 And he said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me, but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.  
2S1012 Be of good courage, and let us be courageous for our people, and for the cities of our God, and may the LORD do what seems good to him.”  
2S1013 So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.  
2S1014 And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.  
2S1015 But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together.  
2S1016 And Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphrates. They came to Helam, with Shobach the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head.  
2S1017 And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan and came to Helam. The Syrians arrayed themselves against David and fought with him.  
2S1018 And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians the men of 700 chariots, and 40,000 horsemen, and wounded Shobach the commander of their army, so that he died there.  
2S1019 And when all the kings who were servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subject to them. So the Syrians were afraid to save the Ammonites anymore.  
2S1101 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.  
2S1102 It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.  
2S1103 And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”  
2S1104 So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.  
2S1105 And the woman conceived, and she sent and told David, “I am pregnant.”  
2S1106 So David sent word to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent Uriah to David.  
2S1107 When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing and how the people were doing and how the war was going.  
2S1108 Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” And Uriah went out of the king’s house, and there followed him a present from the king.  
2S1109 But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.  
2S1110 When they told David, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?”  
2S1111 Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.”  
2S1112 Then David said to Uriah, “Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.  
2S1113 And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.  
2S1114 In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.  
2S1115 In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.”  
2S1116 And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men.  
2S1117 And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite also died.  
2S1118 Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting.  
2S1119 And he instructed the messenger, “When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king,  
2S1120 then, if the king’s anger rises, and if he says to you, ‘Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?  
2S1121 Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’”  
2S1122 So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell.  
2S1123 The messenger said to David, “The men gained an advantage over us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.  
2S1124 Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall. Some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.”  
2S1125 David said to the messenger, “Thus shall you say to Joab, ‘Do not let this matter displease you, for the sword devours now one and now another. Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it.’ And encourage him.”  
2S1126 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her husband.  
2S1127 And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.  
2S1201 And the LORD sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.  
2S1202 The rich man had very many flocks and herds,  
2S1203 but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.  
2S1204 Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had come to him, but he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”  
2S1205 Then David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die,  
2S1206 and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.”  
2S1207 Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.  
2S1208 And I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.  
2S1209 Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.  
2S1210 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’  
2S1211 Thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.  
2S1212 For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’”  
2S1213 David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” And Nathan said to David, “The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.  
2S1214 Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the LORD, the child who is born to you shall die.”  
2S1215 Then Nathan went to his house. And the LORD afflicted the child that Uriah’s wife bore to David, and he became sick.  
2S1216 David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.  
2S1217 And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.  
2S1218 On the seventh day the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to us. How then can we say to him the child is dead? He may do himself some harm.”  
2S1219 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David understood that the child was dead. And David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.”  
2S1220 Then David arose from the earth and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothes. And he went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. He then went to his own house. And when he asked, they set food before him, and he ate.  
2S1221 Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive; but when the child died, you arose and ate food.”  
2S1222 He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether the LORD will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’  
2S1223 But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”  
2S1224 Then David comforted his wife, Bathsheba, and went in to her and lay with her, and she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And the LORD loved him  
2S1225 and sent a message by Nathan the prophet. So he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.  
2S1226 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.  
2S1227 And Joab sent messengers to David and said, “I have fought against Rabbah; moreover, I have taken the city of waters.  
2S1228 Now then gather the rest of the people together and encamp against the city and take it, lest I take the city and it be called by my name.”  
2S1229 So David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah and fought against it and took it.  
2S1230 And he took the crown of their king from his head. The weight of it was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone, and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount.  
2S1231 And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes and made them toil at the brick kilns. And thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.  
2S1301 Now Absalom, David’s son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar. And after a time Amnon, David’s son, loved her.  
2S1302 And Amnon was so tormented that he made himself ill because of his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed impossible to Amnon to do anything to her.  
2S1303 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother. And Jonadab was a very crafty man.  
2S1304 And he said to him, “O son of the king, why are you so haggard morning after morning? Will you not tell me?” Amnon said to him, “I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”  
2S1305 Jonadab said to him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill. And when your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat it from her hand.’”  
2S1306 So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill. And when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.”  
2S1307 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, “Go to your brother Amnon’s house and prepare food for him.”  
2S1308 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house, where he was lying down. And she took dough and kneaded it and made cakes in his sight and baked the cakes.  
2S1309 And she took the pan and emptied it out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, “Send out everyone from me.” So everyone went out from him.  
2S1310 Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from your hand.” And Tamar took the cakes she had made and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.  
2S1311 But when she brought them near him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, “Come, lie with me, my sister.”  
2S1312 She answered him, “No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing.  
2S1313 As for me, where could I carry my shame? And as for you, you would be as one of the outrageous fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”  
2S1314 But he would not listen to her, and being stronger than she, he violated her and lay with her.  
2S1315 Then Amnon hated her with very great hatred, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, “Get up! Go!”  
2S1316 But she said to him, “No, my brother, for this wrong in sending me away is greater than the other that you did to me.” But he would not listen to her.  
2S1317 He called the young man who served him and said, “Put this woman out of my presence and bolt the door after her.”  
2S1318 Now she was wearing a long robe with sleeves, for thus were the virgin daughters of the king dressed. So his servant put her out and bolted the door after her.  
2S1319 And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe that she wore. And she laid her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went.  
2S1320 And her brother Absalom said to her, “Has Amnon your brother been with you? Now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother; do not take this to heart.” So Tamar lived, a desolate woman, in her brother Absalom’s house.  
2S1321 When King David heard of all these things, he was very angry.  
2S1322 But Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad, for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had violated his sister Tamar.  
2S1323 After two full years Absalom had sheepshearers at Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.  
2S1324 And Absalom came to the king and said, “Behold, your servant has sheepshearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant.”  
2S1325 But the king said to Absalom, “No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to you.” He pressed him, but he would not go but gave him his blessing.  
2S1326 Then Absalom said, “If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us.” And the king said to him, “Why should he go with you?”  
2S1327 But Absalom pressed him until he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him.  
2S1328 Then Absalom commanded his servants, “Mark when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.”  
2S1329 So the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and each mounted his mule and fled.  
2S1330 While they were on the way, news came to David, “Absalom has struck down all the king’s sons, and not one of them is left.”  
2S1331 Then the king arose and tore his garments and lay on the earth. And all his servants who were standing by tore their garments.  
2S1332 But Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, said, “Let not my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men, the king’s sons, for Amnon alone is dead. For by the command of Absalom this has been determined from the day he violated his sister Tamar.  
2S1333 Now therefore let not my lord the king so take it to heart as to suppose that all the king’s sons are dead, for Amnon alone is dead.”  
2S1334 But Absalom fled. And the young man who kept the watch lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, many people were coming from the road behind him by the side of the mountain.  
2S1335 And Jonadab said to the king, “Behold, the king’s sons have come; as your servant said, so it has come about.”  
2S1336 And as soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king’s sons came and lifted up their voice and wept. And the king also and all his servants wept very bitterly.  
2S1337 But Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son day after day.  
2S1338 So Absalom fled and went to Geshur, and was there three years.  
2S1339 And the spirit of the king longed to go out to Absalom, because he was comforted about Amnon, since he was dead.  
2S1401 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah knew that the king’s heart went out to Absalom.  
2S1402 And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, “Pretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. Do not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead.  
2S1403 Go to the king and speak thus to him.” So Joab put the words in her mouth.  
2S1404 When the woman of Tekoa came to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and paid homage and said, “Save me, O king.”  
2S1405 And the king said to her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “Alas, I am a widow; my husband is dead.  
2S1406 And your servant had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field. There was no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.  
2S1407 And now the whole clan has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed.’ And so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal that is left and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”  
2S1408 Then the king said to the woman, “Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.”  
2S1409 And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “On me be the guilt, my lord the king, and on my father’s house; let the king and his throne be guiltless.”  
2S1410 The king said, “If anyone says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall never touch you again.”  
2S1411 Then she said, “Please let the king invoke the LORD your God, that the avenger of blood kill no more, and my son be not destroyed.” He said, “As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”  
2S1412 Then the woman said, “Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Speak.”  
2S1413 And the woman said, “Why then have you planned such a thing against the people of God? For in giving this decision the king convicts himself, inasmuch as the king does not bring his banished one home again.  
2S1414 We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.  
2S1415 Now I have come to say this to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid, and your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.  
2S1416 For the king will hear and deliver his servant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the heritage of God.’  
2S1417 And your servant thought, ‘The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,’ for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The LORD your God be with you!”  
2S1418 Then the king answered the woman, “Do not hide from me anything I ask you.” And the woman said, “Let my lord the king speak.”  
2S1419 The king said, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” The woman answered and said, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, one cannot turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has said. It was your servant Joab who commanded me; it was he who put all these words in the mouth of your servant.  
2S1420 In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth.”  
2S1421 Then the king said to Joab, “Behold now, I grant this; go, bring back the young man Absalom.”  
2S1422 And Joab fell on his face to the ground and paid homage and blessed the king. And Joab said, “Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the request of his servant.”  
2S1423 So Joab arose and went to Geshur and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.  
2S1424 And the king said, “Let him dwell apart in his own house; he is not to come into my presence.” So Absalom lived apart in his own house and did not come into the king’s presence.  
2S1425 Now in all Israel there was no one so much to be praised for his handsome appearance as Absalom. From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.  
2S1426 And when he cut the hair of his head (for at the end of every year he used to cut it; when it was heavy on him, he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head, two hundred shekels by the king’s weight.  
2S1427 There were born to Absalom three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar. She was a beautiful woman.  
2S1428 So Absalom lived two full years in Jerusalem, without coming into the king’s presence.  
2S1429 Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but Joab would not come to him. And he sent a second time, but Joab would not come.  
2S1430 Then he said to his servants, “See, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.  
2S1431 Then Joab arose and went to Absalom at his house and said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?”  
2S1432 Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent word to you, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to ask, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still.” Now therefore let me go into the presence of the king, and if there is guilt in me, let him put me to death.’”  
2S1433 Then Joab went to the king and told him, and he summoned Absalom. So he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king, and the king kissed Absalom.  
2S1501 After this Absalom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.  
2S1502 And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate. And when any man had a dispute to come before the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And when he said, “Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,”  
2S1503 Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man designated by the king to hear you.”  
2S1504 Then Absalom would say, “Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.”  
2S1505 And whenever a man came near to pay homage to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him.  
2S1506 Thus Absalom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.  
2S1507 And at the end of four years Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the LORD, in Hebron.  
2S1508 For your servant vowed a vow while I lived at Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘If the LORD will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will offer worship to the LORD.’”  
2S1509 The king said to him, “Go in peace.” So he arose and went to Hebron.  
2S1510 But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, ‘Absalom is king at Hebron!’”  
2S1511 With Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem who were invited guests, and they went in their innocence and knew nothing.  
2S1512 And while Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city Giloh. And the conspiracy grew strong, and the people with Absalom kept increasing.  
2S1513 And a messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom.”  
2S1514 Then David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise, and let us flee, or else there will be no escape for us from Absalom. Go quickly, lest he overtake us quickly and bring down ruin on us and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”  
2S1515 And the king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king decides.”  
2S1516 So the king went out, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house.  
2S1517 And the king went out, and all the people after him. And they halted at the last house.  
2S1518 And all his servants passed by him, and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath, passed on before the king.  
2S1519 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Go back and stay with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile from your home.  
2S1520 You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, since I go I know not where? Go back and take your brothers with you, and may the LORD show steadfast love and faithfulness to you.”  
2S1521 But Ittai answered the king, “As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.”  
2S1522 And David said to Ittai, “Go then, pass on.” So Ittai the Gittite passed on with all his men and all the little ones who were with him.  
2S1523 And all the land wept aloud as all the people passed by, and the king crossed the brook Kidron, and all the people passed on toward the wilderness.  
2S1524 And Abiathar came up, and behold, Zadok came also with all the Levites, bearing the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God until the people had all passed out of the city.  
2S1525 Then the king said to Zadok, “Carry the ark of God back into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me back and let me see both it and his dwelling place.  
2S1526 But if he says, ‘I have no pleasure in you,’ behold, here I am, let him do to me what seems good to him.”  
2S1527 The king also said to Zadok the priest, “Are you not a seer? Go back to the city in peace, with your two sons, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.  
2S1528 See, I will wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.”  
2S1529 So Zadok and Abiathar carried the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and they remained there.  
2S1530 But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, barefoot and with his head covered. And all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, weeping as they went.  
2S1531 And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”  
2S1532 While David was coming to the summit, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn and dirt on his head.  
2S1533 David said to him, “If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me.  
2S1534 But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father’s servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,’ then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.  
2S1535 Are not Zadok and Abiathar the priests with you there? So whatever you hear from the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.  
2S1536 Behold, their two sons are with them there, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son, and by them you shall send to me everything you hear.”  
2S1537 So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem.  
2S1601 When David had passed a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine.  
2S1602 And the king said to Ziba, “Why have you brought these?” Ziba answered, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on, the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for those who faint in the wilderness to drink.”  
2S1603 And the king said, “And where is your master’s son?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he remains in Jerusalem, for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will give me back the kingdom of my father.’”  
2S1604 Then the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours.” And Ziba said, “I pay homage; let me ever find favor in your sight, my lord the king.”  
2S1605 When King David came to Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera, and as he came he cursed continually.  
2S1606 And he threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.  
2S1607 And Shimei said as he cursed, “Get out, get out, you man of blood, you worthless man!  
2S1608 The LORD has avenged on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, your evil is on you, for you are a man of blood.”  
2S1609 Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and take off his head.”  
2S1610 But the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the LORD has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”  
2S1611 And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Leave him alone, and let him curse, for the LORD has told him to.  
2S1612 It may be that the LORD will look on the wrong done to me, and that the LORD will repay me with good for his cursing today.”  
2S1613 So David and his men went on the road, while Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him and cursed as he went and threw stones at him and flung dust.  
2S1614 And the king, and all the people who were with him, arrived weary at the Jordan. And there he refreshed himself.  
2S1615 Now Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.  
2S1616 And when Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”  
2S1617 And Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”  
2S1618 And Hushai said to Absalom, “No, for whom the LORD and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be, and with him I will remain.  
2S1619 And again, whom should I serve? Should it not be his son? As I have served your father, so I will serve you.”  
2S1620 Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your counsel. What shall we do?”  
2S1621 Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”  
2S1622 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.  
2S1623 Now in those days the counsel that Ahithophel gave was as if one consulted the word of God; so was all the counsel of Ahithophel esteemed, both by David and by Absalom.  
2S1701 Moreover, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue David tonight.  
2S1702 I will come upon him while he is weary and discouraged and throw him into a panic, and all the people who are with him will flee. I will strike down only the king,  
2S1703 and I will bring all the people back to you as a bride comes home to her husband. You seek the life of only one man, and all the people will be at peace.”  
2S1704 And the advice seemed right in the eyes of Absalom and all the elders of Israel.  
2S1705 Then Absalom said, “Call Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear what he has to say.”  
2S1706 And when Hushai came to Absalom, Absalom said to him, “Thus has Ahithophel spoken; shall we do as he says? If not, you speak.”  
2S1707 Then Hushai said to Absalom, “This time the counsel that Ahithophel has given is not good.”  
2S1708 Hushai said, “You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the people.  
2S1709 Behold, even now he has hidden himself in one of the pits or in some other place. And as soon as some of the people fall at the first attack, whoever hears it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.’  
2S1710 Then even the valiant man, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will utterly melt with fear, for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and that those who are with him are valiant men.  
2S1711 But my counsel is that all Israel be gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, as the sand by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.  
2S1712 So we shall come upon him in some place where he is to be found, and we shall light upon him as the dew falls on the ground, and of him and all the men with him not one will be left.  
2S1713 If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we shall drag it into the valley, until not even a pebble is to be found there.”  
2S1714 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the LORD might bring harm upon Absalom.  
2S1715 Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, “Thus and so did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel, and thus and so have I counseled.  
2S1716 Now therefore send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not stay tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.’”  
2S1717 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting at En-rogel. A female servant was to go and tell them, and they were to go and tell King David, for they were not to be seen entering the city.  
2S1718 But a young man saw them and told Absalom. So both of them went away quickly and came to the house of a man at Bahurim, who had a well in his courtyard. And they went down into it.  
2S1719 And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth and scattered grain on it, and nothing was known of it.  
2S1720 When Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” And the woman said to them, “They have gone over the brook of water.” And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.  
2S1721 After they had gone, the men came up out of the well, and went and told King David. They said to David, “Arise, and go quickly over the water, for thus and so has Ahithophel counseled against you.”  
2S1722 Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they crossed the Jordan. By daybreak not one was left who had not crossed the Jordan.  
2S1723 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.  
2S1724 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.  
2S1725 Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had married Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.  
2S1726 And Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.  
2S1727 When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, and Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,  
2S1728 brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, wheat, barley, flour, parched grain, beans and lentils,  
2S1729 honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat, for they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”  
2S1801 Then David mustered the men who were with him and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.  
2S1802 And David sent out the army, one third under the command of Joab, one third under the command of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and one third under the command of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the men, “I myself will also go out with you.”  
2S1803 But the men said, “You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore it is better that you send us help from the city.”  
2S1804 The king said to them, “Whatever seems best to you I will do.” So the king stood at the side of the gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.  
2S1805 And the king ordered Joab and Abishai and Ittai, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.” And all the people heard when the king gave orders to all the commanders about Absalom.  
2S1806 So the army went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim.  
2S1807 And the men of Israel were defeated there by the servants of David, and the loss there was great on that day, twenty thousand men.  
2S1808 The battle spread over the face of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword.  
2S1809 And Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak, and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.  
2S1810 And a certain man saw it and told Joab, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”  
2S1811 Joab said to the man who told him, “What, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have been glad to give you ten pieces of silver and a belt.”  
2S1812 But the man said to Joab, “Even if I felt in my hand the weight of a thousand pieces of silver, I would not reach out my hand against the king’s son, for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘For my sake protect the young man Absalom.’  
2S1813 On the other hand, if I had dealt treacherously against his life (and there is nothing hidden from the king), then you yourself would have stood aloof.”  
2S1814 Joab said, “I will not waste time like this with you.” And he took three javelins in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak.  
2S1815 And ten young men, Joab’s armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him and killed him.  
2S1816 Then Joab blew the trumpet, and the troops came back from pursuing Israel, for Joab restrained them.  
2S1817 And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest and raised over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled every one to his own home.  
2S1818 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself the pillar that is in the King’s Valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in remembrance.” He called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom’s monument to this day.  
2S1819 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, “Let me run and carry news to the king that the LORD has delivered him from the hand of his enemies.”  
2S1820 And Joab said to him, “You are not to carry news today. You may carry news another day, but today you shall carry no news, because the king’s son is dead.”  
2S1821 Then Joab said to the Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen.” The Cushite bowed before Joab, and ran.  
2S1822 Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said again to Joab, “Come what may, let me also run after the Cushite.” And Joab said, “Why will you run, my son, seeing that you will have no reward for the news?”  
2S1823 “Come what may,” he said, “I will run.” So he said to him, “Run.” Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and outran the Cushite.  
2S1824 Now David was sitting between the two gates, and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone.  
2S1825 The watchman called out and told the king. And the king said, “If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.” And he drew nearer and nearer.  
2S1826 The watchman saw another man running. And the watchman called to the gate and said, “See, another man running alone!” The king said, “He also brings news.”  
2S1827 The watchman said, “I think the running of the first is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.” And the king said, “He is a good man and comes with good news.”  
2S1828 Then Ahimaaz cried out to the king, “All is well.” And he bowed before the king with his face to the earth and said, “Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delivered up the men who raised their hand against my lord the king.”  
2S1829 And the king said, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” Ahimaaz answered, “When Joab sent the king’s servant, your servant, I saw a great commotion, but I do not know what it was.”  
2S1830 And the king said, “Turn aside and stand here.” So he turned aside and stood still.  
2S1831 And behold, the Cushite came, and the Cushite said, “Good news for my lord the king! For the LORD has delivered you this day from the hand of all who rose up against you.”  
2S1832 The king said to the Cushite, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” And the Cushite answered, “May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you for evil be like that young man.”  
2S1833 And the king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And as he went, he said, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”  
2S1901 It was told Joab, “Behold, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom.”  
2S1902 So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people, for the people heard that day, “The king is grieving for his son.”  
2S1903 And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.  
2S1904 The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!”  
2S1905 Then Joab came into the house to the king and said, “You have today covered with shame the faces of all your servants, who have this day saved your life and the lives of your sons and your daughters and the lives of your wives and your concubines,  
2S1906 because you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have made it clear today that commanders and servants are nothing to you, for today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.  
2S1907 Now therefore arise, go out and speak kindly to your servants, for I swear by the LORD, if you do not go, not a man will stay with you this night, and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.”  
2S1908 Then the king arose and took his seat in the gate. And the people were all told, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” And all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his own home.  
2S1909 And all the people were arguing throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies and saved us from the hand of the Philistines, and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.  
2S1910 But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?”  
2S1911 And King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house, when the word of all Israel has come to the king?  
2S1912 You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’  
2S1913 And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.’”  
2S1914 And he swayed the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, so that they sent word to the king, “Return, both you and all your servants.”  
2S1915 So the king came back to the Jordan, and Judah came to Gilgal to meet the king and to bring the king over the Jordan.  
2S1916 And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, from Bahurim, hurried to come down with the men of Judah to meet King David.  
2S1917 And with him were a thousand men from Benjamin. And Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and his twenty servants, rushed down to the Jordan before the king,  
2S1918 and they crossed the ford to bring over the king’s household and to do his pleasure. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was about to cross the Jordan,  
2S1919 and said to the king, “Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. Do not let the king take it to heart.  
2S1920 For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore, behold, I have come this day, the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”  
2S1921 Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, “Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?”  
2S1922 But David said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be as an adversary to me? Shall anyone be put to death in Israel this day? For do I not know that I am this day king over Israel?”  
2S1923 And the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king gave him his oath.  
2S1924 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. He had neither taken care of his feet nor trimmed his beard nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came back in safety.  
2S1925 And when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?”  
2S1926 He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said to him, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ For your servant is lame.  
2S1927 He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.  
2S1928 For all my father’s house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to cry to the king?”  
2S1929 And the king said to him, “Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land.”  
2S1930 And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Oh, let him take it all, since my lord the king has come safely home.”  
2S1931 Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim, and he went on with the king to the Jordan, to escort him over the Jordan.  
2S1932 Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. He had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.  
2S1933 And the king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem.”  
2S1934 But Barzillai said to the king, “How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?  
2S1935 I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?  
2S1936 Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?  
2S1937 Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him go over with my lord the king, and do for him whatever seems good to you.”  
2S1938 And the king answered, “Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you, and all that you desire of me I will do for you.”  
2S1939 Then all the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. And the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his own home.  
2S1940 The king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him. All the people of Judah, and also half the people of Israel, brought the king on his way.  
2S1941 Then all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”  
2S1942 All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is our close relative. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s expense? Or has he given us any gift?”  
2S1943 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, “We have ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?” But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.  
2S2001 Now there happened to be there a worthless man, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. And he blew the trumpet and said, “We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!”  
2S2002 So all the men of Israel withdrew from David and followed Sheba the son of Bichri. But the men of Judah followed their king steadfastly from the Jordan to Jerusalem.  
2S2003 And David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house and put them in a house under guard and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.  
2S2004 Then the king said to Amasa, “Call the men of Judah together to me within three days, and be here yourself.”  
2S2005 So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he delayed beyond the set time that had been appointed him.  
2S2006 And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord’s servants and pursue him, lest he get himself to fortified cities and escape from us.”  
2S2007 And there went out after him Joab’s men and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men. They went out from Jerusalem to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.  
2S2008 When they were at the great stone that is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Now Joab was wearing a soldier’s garment, and over it was a belt with a sword in its sheath fastened on his thigh, and as he went forward it fell out.  
2S2009 And Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.  
2S2010 But Amasa did not observe the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So Joab struck him with it in the stomach and spilled his entrails to the ground without striking a second blow, and he died. Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.  
2S2011 And one of Joab’s young men took his stand by Amasa and said, “Whoever favors Joab, and whoever is for David, let him follow Joab.”  
2S2012 And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the highway. And anyone who came by, seeing him, stopped. And when the man saw that all the people stopped, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field and threw a garment over him.  
2S2013 When he was taken out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.  
2S2014 And Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel of Beth-maacah, and all the Bichrites assembled and followed him in.  
2S2015 And all the men who were with Joab came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah. They cast up a mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart, and they were battering the wall to throw it down.  
2S2016 Then a wise woman called from the city, “Listen! Listen! Tell Joab, ‘Come here, that I may speak to you.’”  
2S2017 And he came near her, and the woman said, “Are you Joab?” He answered, “I am.” Then she said to him, “Listen to the words of your servant.” And he answered, “I am listening.”  
2S2018 Then she said, “They used to say in former times, ‘Let them but ask counsel at Abel,’ and so they settled a matter.  
2S2019 I am one of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city that is a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up the heritage of the LORD?”  
2S2020 Joab answered, “Far be it from me, far be it, that I should swallow up or destroy!  
2S2021 That is not true. But a man of the hill country of Ephraim, called Sheba the son of Bichri, has lifted up his hand against King David. Give up him alone, and I will withdraw from the city.” And the woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.”  
2S2022 Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.  
2S2023 Now Joab was in command of all the army of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the Cherethites and the Pelethites;  
2S2024 and Adoram was in charge of the forced labor; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;  
2S2025 and Sheva was secretary; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;  
2S2026 and Ira the Jairite was also David’s priest.  
2S2101 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”  
2S2102 So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites. Although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought to strike them down in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.  
2S2103 And David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And how shall I make atonement, that you may bless the heritage of the LORD?”  
2S2104 The Gibeonites said to him, “It is not a matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” And he said, “What do you say that I shall do for you?”  
2S2105 They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel,  
2S2106 let seven of his sons be given to us, so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” And the king said, “I will give them.”  
2S2107 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul’s son Jonathan, because of the oath of the LORD that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.  
2S2108 The king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;  
2S2109 and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the LORD, and the seven of them perished together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, at the beginning of barley harvest.  
2S2110 Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens. And she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.  
2S2111 When David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done,  
2S2112 David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, on the day the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa.  
2S2113 And he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of his son Jonathan; and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged.  
2S2114 And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. And they did all that the king commanded. And after that God responded to the plea for the land.  
2S2115 There was war again between the Philistines and Israel, and David went down together with his servants, and they fought against the Philistines. And David grew weary.  
2S2116 And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of bronze, and who was armed with a new sword, thought to kill David.  
2S2117 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, “You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.”  
2S2118 After this there was again war with the Philistines at Gob. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Saph, who was one of the descendants of the giants.  
2S2119 And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare- oregim, the Bethlehemite, struck down Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.  
2S2120 And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand, and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was descended from the giants.  
2S2121 And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, struck him down.  
2S2122 These four were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.  
2S2201 And David spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.  
2S2202 He said, “The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,  
2S2203 my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my savior; you save me from violence.  
2S2204 I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.  
2S2205 “For the waves of death encompassed me, the torrents of destruction assailed me;  
2S2206 the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.  
2S2207 “In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I called. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry came to his ears.  
2S2208 “Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations of the heavens trembled and quaked, because he was angry.  
2S2209 Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.  
2S2210 He bowed the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.  
2S2211 He rode on a cherub and flew; he was seen on the wings of the wind.  
2S2212 He made darkness around him his canopy, thick clouds, a gathering of water.  
2S2213 Out of the brightness before him coals of fire flamed forth.  
2S2214 The LORD thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.  
2S2215 And he sent out arrows and scattered them; lightning, and routed them.  
2S2216 Then the channels of the sea were seen; the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.  
2S2217 “He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters.  
2S2218 He rescued me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.  
2S2219 They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.  
2S2220 He brought me out into a broad place; he rescued me, because he delighted in me.  
2S2221 “The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.  
2S2222 For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.  
2S2223 For all his rules were before me, and from his statutes I did not turn aside.  
2S2224 I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from guilt.  
2S2225 And the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight.  
2S2226 “With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;  
2S2227 with the purified you deal purely, and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.  
2S2228 You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.  
2S2229 For you are my lamp, O LORD, and my God lightens my darkness.  
2S2230 For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.  
2S2231 This God—his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.  
2S2232 “For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?  
2S2233 This God is my strong refuge and has made my way blameless.  
2S2234 He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights.  
2S2235 He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.  
2S2236 You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your gentleness made me great.  
2S2237 You gave a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip;  
2S2238 I pursued my enemies and destroyed them, and did not turn back until they were consumed.  
2S2239 I consumed them; I thrust them through, so that they did not rise; they fell under my feet.  
2S2240 For you equipped me with strength for the battle; you made those who rise against me sink under me.  
2S2241 You made my enemies turn their backs to me, those who hated me, and I destroyed them.  
2S2242 They looked, but there was none to save; they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them.  
2S2243 I beat them fine as the dust of the earth; I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.  
2S2244 “You delivered me from strife with my people; you kept me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.  
2S2245 Foreigners came cringing to me; as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.  
2S2246 Foreigners lost heart and came trembling out of their fortresses.  
2S2247 “The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,  
2S2248 the God who gave me vengeance and brought down peoples under me,  
2S2249 who brought me out from my enemies; you exalted me above those who rose against me; you delivered me from men of violence.  
2S2250 “For this I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises to your name.  
2S2251 Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.”  
2S2301 Now these are the last words of David: The oracle of David, the son of Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:  
2S2302 “The Spirit of the LORD speaks by me; his word is on my tongue.  
2S2303 The God of Israel has spoken; the Rock of Israel has said to me: When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God,  
2S2304 he dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.  
2S2305 “For does not my house stand so with God? For he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For will he not cause to prosper all my help and my desire?  
2S2306 But worthless men are all like thorns that are thrown away, for they cannot be taken with the hand;  
2S2307 but the man who touches them arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear, and they are utterly consumed with fire.”  
2S2308 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite; he was chief of the three. He wielded his spear against eight hundred whom he killed at one time.  
2S2309 And next to him among the three mighty men was Eleazar the son of Dodo, son of Ahohi. He was with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there for battle, and the men of Israel withdrew.  
2S2310 He rose and struck down the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clung to the sword. And the LORD brought about a great victory that day, and the men returned after him only to strip the slain.  
2S2311 And next to him was Shammah, the son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines gathered together at Lehi, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils, and the men fled from the Philistines.  
2S2312 But he took his stand in the midst of the plot and defended it and struck down the Philistines, and the LORD worked a great victory.  
2S2313 And three of the thirty chief men went down and came about harvest time to David at the cave of Adullam, when a band of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.  
2S2314 David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem.  
2S2315 And David said longingly, “Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!”  
2S2316 Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and carried and brought it to David. But he would not drink of it. He poured it out to the LORD  
2S2317 and said, “Far be it from me, O LORD, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?” Therefore he would not drink it. These things the three mighty men did.  
2S2318 Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the thirty. And he wielded his spear against three hundred men and killed them and won a name beside the three.  
2S2319 He was the most renowned of the thirty and became their commander, but he did not attain to the three.  
2S2320 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two ariels of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.  
2S2321 And he struck down an Egyptian, a handsome man. The Egyptian had a spear in his hand, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.  
2S2322 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and won a name beside the three mighty men.  
2S2323 He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.  
2S2324 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,  
2S2325 Shammah of Harod, Elika of Harod,  
2S2326 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh of Tekoa,  
2S2327 Abiezer of Anathoth, Mebunnai the Hushathite,  
2S2328 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai of Netophah,  
2S2329 Heleb the son of Baanah of Netophah, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the people of Benjamin,  
2S2330 Benaiah of Pirathon, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,  
2S2331 Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth of Bahurim,  
2S2332 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,  
2S2333 Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,  
2S2334 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai of Maacah, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,  
2S2335 Hezro of Carmel, Paarai the Arbite,  
2S2336 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,  
2S2337 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai of Beeroth, the armor-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,  
2S2338 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,  
2S2339 Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.  
2S2401 Again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”  
2S2402 So the king said to Joab, the commander of the army, who was with him, “Go through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the number of the people.”  
2S2403 But Joab said to the king, “May the LORD your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see it, but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”  
2S2404 But the king’s word prevailed against Joab and the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to number the people of Israel.  
2S2405 They crossed the Jordan and began from Aroer, and from the city that is in the middle of the valley, toward Gad and on to Jazer.  
2S2406 Then they came to Gilead, and to Kadesh in the land of the Hittites; and they came to Dan, and from Dan they went around to Sidon,  
2S2407 and came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites; and they went out to the Negeb of Judah at Beersheba.  
2S2408 So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.  
2S2409 And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: in Israel there were 800,000 valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were 500,000.  
2S2410 But David’s heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O LORD, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”  
2S2411 And when David arose in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,  
2S2412 “Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the LORD, Three things I offer you. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.’”  
2S2413 So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall three years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”  
2S2414 Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.”  
2S2415 So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people from Dan to Beersheba 70,000 men.  
2S2416 And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.  
2S2417 Then David spoke to the LORD when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me and against my father’s house.”  
2S2418 And Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”  
2S2419 So David went up at Gad’s word, as the LORD commanded.  
2S2420 And when Araunah looked down, he saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. And Araunah went out and paid homage to the king with his face to the ground.  
2S2421 And Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be averted from the people.”  
2S2422 Then Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Here are the oxen for the burnt offering and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.  
2S2423 All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “May the LORD your God accept you.”  
2S2424 But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.  
2S2425 And David built there an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD responded to the plea for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel.  
1K0101 Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.  
1K0102 Therefore his servants said to him, “Let a young woman be sought for my lord the king, and let her wait on the king and be in his service. Let her lie in your arms, that my lord the king may be warm.”  
1K0103 So they sought for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.  
1K0104 The young woman was very beautiful, and she was of service to the king and attended to him, but the king knew her not.  
1K0105 Now Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” And he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.  
1K0106 His father had never at any time displeased him by asking, “Why have you done thus and so?” He was also a very handsome man, and he was born next after Absalom.  
1K0107 He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest. And they followed Adonijah and helped him.  
1K0108 But Zadok the priest and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei and David’s mighty men were not with Adonijah.  
1K0109 Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened cattle by the Serpent’s Stone, which is beside En-rogel, and he invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the royal officials of Judah,  
1K0110 but he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the mighty men or Solomon his brother.  
1K0111 Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, “Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king and David our lord does not know it?  
1K0112 Now therefore come, let me give you advice, that you may save your own life and the life of your son Solomon.  
1K0113 Go in at once to King David, and say to him, ‘Did you not, my lord the king, swear to your servant, saying, “Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne”? Why then is Adonijah king?’  
1K0114 Then while you are still speaking with the king, I also will come in after you and confirm your words.”  
1K0115 So Bathsheba went to the king in his chamber (now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was attending to the king).  
1K0116 Bathsheba bowed and paid homage to the king, and the king said, “What do you desire?”  
1K0117 She said to him, “My lord, you swore to your servant by the LORD your God, saying, ‘Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’  
1K0118 And now, behold, Adonijah is king, although you, my lord the king, do not know it.  
1K0119 He has sacrificed oxen, fattened cattle, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the commander of the army, but Solomon your servant he has not invited.  
1K0120 And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.  
1K0121 Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be counted offenders.”  
1K0122 While she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.  
1K0123 And they told the king, “Here is Nathan the prophet.” And when he came in before the king, he bowed before the king, with his face to the ground.  
1K0124 And Nathan said, “My lord the king, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne’?  
1K0125 For he has gone down this day and has sacrificed oxen, fattened cattle, and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the king’s sons, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest. And behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and saying, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’  
1K0126 But me, your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon he has not invited.  
1K0127 Has this thing been brought about by my lord the king and you have not told your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”  
1K0128 Then King David answered, “Call Bathsheba to me.” So she came into the king’s presence and stood before the king.  
1K0129 And the king swore, saying, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my soul out of every adversity,  
1K0130 as I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel, saying, ‘Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place,’ even so will I do this day.”  
1K0131 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground and paid homage to the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!”  
1K0132 King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” So they came before the king.  
1K0133 And the king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.  
1K0134 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel. Then blow the trumpet and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’  
1K0135 You shall then come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne, for he shall be king in my place. And I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.”  
1K0136 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, “Amen! May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, say so.  
1K0137 As the LORD has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David.”  
1K0138 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David’s mule and brought him to Gihon.  
1K0139 There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, “Long live King Solomon!”  
1K0140 And all the people went up after him, playing on pipes, and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth was split by their noise.  
1K0141 Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they finished feasting. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, “What does this uproar in the city mean?”  
1K0142 While he was still speaking, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came. And Adonijah said, “Come in, for you are a worthy man and bring good news.”  
1K0143 Jonathan answered Adonijah, “No, for our lord King David has made Solomon king,  
1K0144 and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites. And they had him ride on the king’s mule.  
1K0145 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you have heard.  
1K0146 Solomon sits on the royal throne.  
1K0147 Moreover, the king’s servants came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon more famous than yours, and make his throne greater than your throne.’ And the king bowed himself on the bed.  
1K0148 And the king also said, ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has granted someone to sit on my throne this day, my own eyes seeing it.’”  
1K0149 Then all the guests of Adonijah trembled and rose, and each went his own way.  
1K0150 And Adonijah feared Solomon. So he arose and went and took hold of the horns of the altar.  
1K0151 Then it was told Solomon, “Behold, Adonijah fears King Solomon, for behold, he has laid hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let King Solomon swear to me first that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.’”  
1K0152 And Solomon said, “If he will show himself a worthy man, not one of his hairs shall fall to the earth, but if wickedness is found in him, he shall die.”  
1K0153 So King Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and paid homage to King Solomon, and Solomon said to him, “Go to your house.”  
1K0201 When David’s time to die drew near, he commanded Solomon his son, saying,  
1K0202 “I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man,  
1K0203 and keep the charge of the LORD your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,  
1K0204 that the LORD may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’  
1K0205 “Moreover, you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Ner, and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, avenging in time of peace for blood that had been shed in war, and putting the blood of war on the belt around his waist and on the sandals on his feet.  
1K0206 Act therefore according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.  
1K0207 But deal loyally with the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother.  
1K0208 And there is also with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day when I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’  
1K0209 Now therefore do not hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man. You will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down with blood to Sheol.”  
1K0210 Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.  
1K0211 And the time that David reigned over Israel was forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.  
1K0212 So Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was firmly established.  
1K0213 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And she said, “Do you come peacefully?” He said, “Peacefully.”  
1K0214 Then he said, “I have something to say to you.” She said, “Speak.”  
1K0215 He said, “You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel fully expected me to reign. However, the kingdom has turned about and become my brother’s, for it was his from the LORD.  
1K0216 And now I have one request to make of you; do not refuse me.” She said to him, “Speak.”  
1K0217 And he said, “Please ask King Solomon—he will not refuse you—to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”  
1K0218 Bathsheba said, “Very well; I will speak for you to the king.”  
1K0219 So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. And the king rose to meet her and bowed down to her. Then he sat on his throne and had a seat brought for the king’s mother, and she sat on his right.  
1K0220 Then she said, “I have one small request to make of you; do not refuse me.” And the king said to her, “Make your request, my mother, for I will not refuse you.”  
1K0221 She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as his wife.”  
1K0222 King Solomon answered his mother, “And why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my older brother, and on his side are Abiathar the priest and Joab the son of Zeruiah.”  
1K0223 Then King Solomon swore by the LORD, saying, “God do so to me and more also if this word does not cost Adonijah his life!  
1K0224 Now therefore as the LORD lives, who has established me and placed me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death today.”  
1K0225 So King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he struck him down, and he died.  
1K0226 And to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your estate, for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because you shared in all my father’s affliction.”  
1K0227 So Solomon expelled Abiathar from being priest to the LORD, thus fulfilling the word of the LORD that he had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.  
1K0228 When the news came to Joab—for Joab had supported Adonijah although he had not supported Absalom—Joab fled to the tent of the LORD and caught hold of the horns of the altar.  
1K0229 And when it was told King Solomon, “Joab has fled to the tent of the LORD, and behold, he is beside the altar,” Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, strike him down.”  
1K0230 So Benaiah came to the tent of the LORD and said to him, “The king commands, ‘Come out.’” But he said, “No, I will die here.” Then Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.”  
1K0231 The king replied to him, “Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him, and thus take away from me and from my father’s house the guilt for the blood that Joab shed without cause.  
1K0232 The LORD will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.  
1K0233 So shall their blood come back on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever. But for David and for his descendants and for his house and for his throne there shall be peace from the LORD forevermore.”  
1K0234 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and struck him down and put him to death. And he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.  
1K0235 The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the army in place of Joab, and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.  
1K0236 Then the king sent and summoned Shimei and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and dwell there, and do not go out from there to any place whatever.  
1K0237 For on the day you go out and cross the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall die. Your blood shall be on your own head.”  
1K0238 And Shimei said to the king, “What you say is good; as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.  
1K0239 But it happened at the end of three years that two of Shimei’s servants ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And when it was told Shimei, “Behold, your servants are in Gath,”  
1K0240 Shimei arose and saddled a donkey and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants. Shimei went and brought his servants from Gath.  
1K0241 And when Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and returned,  
1K0242 the king sent and summoned Shimei and said to him, “Did I not make you swear by the LORD and solemnly warn you, saying, ‘Know for certain that on the day you go out and go to any place whatever, you shall die’? And you said to me, ‘What you say is good; I will obey.’  
1K0243 Why then have you not kept your oath to the LORD and the commandment with which I commanded you?”  
1K0244 The king also said to Shimei, “You know in your own heart all the harm that you did to David my father. So the LORD will bring back your harm on your own head.  
1K0245 But King Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD forever.”  
1K0246 Then the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck him down, and he died. So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.  
1K0301 Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the LORD and the wall around Jerusalem.  
1K0302 The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the LORD.  
1K0303 Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father, only he sacrificed and made offerings at the high places.  
1K0304 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place. Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.  
1K0305 At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.”  
1K0306 And Solomon said, “You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant David my father, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart toward you. And you have kept for him this great and steadfast love and have given him a son to sit on his throne this day.  
1K0307 And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of David my father, although I am but a little child. I do not know how to go out or come in.  
1K0308 And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, too many to be numbered or counted for multitude.  
1K0309 Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?”  
1K0310 It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this.  
1K0311 And God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right,  
1K0312 behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.  
1K0313 I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days.  
1K0314 And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”  
1K0315 And Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings and peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.  
1K0316 Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.  
1K0317 The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house.  
1K0318 Then on the third day after I gave birth, this woman also gave birth. And we were alone. There was no one else with us in the house; only we two were in the house.  
1K0319 And this woman’s son died in the night, because she lay on him.  
1K0320 And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast.  
1K0321 When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead. But when I looked at him closely in the morning, behold, he was not the child that I had borne.”  
1K0322 But the other woman said, “No, the living child is mine, and the dead child is yours.” The first said, “No, the dead child is yours, and the living child is mine.” Thus they spoke before the king.  
1K0323 Then the king said, “The one says, ‘This is my son that is alive, and your son is dead’; and the other says, ‘No; but your son is dead, and my son is the living one.’”  
1K0324 And the king said, “Bring me a sword.” So a sword was brought before the king.  
1K0325 And the king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.”  
1K0326 Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death.” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him.”  
1K0327 Then the king answered and said, “Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother.”  
1K0328 And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.  
1K0401 King Solomon was king over all Israel,  
1K0402 and these were his high officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest;  
1K0403 Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;  
1K0404 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests;  
1K0405 Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and king’s friend;  
1K0406 Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram the son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.  
1K0407 Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for one month in the year.  
1K0408 These were their names: Ben-hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;  
1K0409 Ben-deker, in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elonbeth-hanan;  
1K0410 Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him belonged Socoh and all the land of Hepher);  
1K0411 Ben-abinadab, in all Naphath-dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);  
1K0412 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach, Megiddo, and all Beth-shean that is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, and from Beth-shean to Abel- meholah, as far as the other side of Jokmeam;  
1K0413 Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (he had the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and he had the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);  
1K0414 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;  
1K0415 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he had taken Basemath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);  
1K0416 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;  
1K0417 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;  
1K0418 Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;  
1K0419 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. And there was one governor who was over the land.  
1K0420 Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy.  
1K0421 Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.  
1K0422 Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of meal,  
1K0423 ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.  
1K0424 For he had dominion over all the region west of the Euphrates from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings west of the Euphrates. And he had peace on all sides around him.  
1K0425 And Judah and Israel lived in safety, from Dan even to Beersheba, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, all the days of Solomon.  
1K0426 Solomon also had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.  
1K0427 And those officers supplied provisions for King Solomon, and for all who came to King Solomon’s table, each one in his month. They let nothing be lacking.  
1K0428 Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds they brought to the place where it was required, each according to his duty.  
1K0429 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore,  
1K0430 so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.  
1K0431 For he was wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.  
1K0432 He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005.  
1K0433 He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall. He spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish.  
1K0434 And people of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.  
1K0501 Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram always loved David.  
1K0502 And Solomon sent word to Hiram,  
1K0503 “You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God because of the warfare with which his enemies surrounded him, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.  
1K0504 But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side. There is neither adversary nor misfortune.  
1K0505 And so I intend to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD said to David my father, ‘Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, shall build the house for my name.’  
1K0506 Now therefore command that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. And my servants will join your servants, and I will pay you for your servants such wages as you set, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”  
1K0507 As soon as Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly and said, “Blessed be the LORD this day, who has given to David a wise son to be over this great people.”  
1K0508 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, “I have heard the message that you have sent to me. I am ready to do all you desire in the matter of cedar and cypress timber.  
1K0509 My servants shall bring it down to the sea from Lebanon, and I will make it into rafts to go by sea to the place you direct. And I will have them broken up there, and you shall receive it. And you shall meet my wishes by providing food for my household.”  
1K0510 So Hiram supplied Solomon with all the timber of cedar and cypress that he desired,  
1K0511 while Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, and 20,000 cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.  
1K0512 And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.  
1K0513 King Solomon drafted forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men.  
1K0514 And he sent them to Lebanon, 10,000 a month in shifts. They would be a month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the draft.  
1K0515 Solomon also had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country,  
1K0516 besides Solomon’s 3,300 chief officers who were over the work, who had charge of the people who carried on the work.  
1K0517 At the king’s command they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.  
1K0518 So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.  
1K0601 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.  
1K0602 The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.  
1K0603 The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.  
1K0604 And he made for the house windows with recessed frames.  
1K0605 He also built a structure against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around.  
1K0606 The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.  
1K0607 When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.  
1K0608 The entrance for the lowest story was on the south side of the house, and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.  
1K0609 So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.  
1K0610 He built the structure against the whole house, five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.  
1K0611 Now the word of the LORD came to Solomon,  
1K0612 “Concerning this house that you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my rules and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.  
1K0613 And I will dwell among the children of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel.”  
1K0614 So Solomon built the house and finished it.  
1K0615 He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar. From the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood, and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.  
1K0616 He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.  
1K0617 The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.  
1K0618 The cedar within the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen.  
1K0619 The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.  
1K0620 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid an altar of cedar.  
1K0621 And Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold, and he drew chains of gold across, in front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.  
1K0622 And he overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. Also the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.  
1K0623 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.  
1K0624 Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.  
1K0625 The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form.  
1K0626 The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.  
1K0627 He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house. And the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house.  
1K0628 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.  
1K0629 Around all the walls of the house he carved engraved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.  
1K0630 The floor of the house he overlaid with gold in the inner and outer rooms.  
1K0631 For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts were five-sided.  
1K0632 He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. He overlaid them with gold and spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.  
1K0633 So also he made for the entrance to the nave doorposts of olivewood, in the form of a square,  
1K0634 and two doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.  
1K0635 On them he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work.  
1K0636 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and one course of cedar beams.  
1K0637 In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid, in the month of Ziv.  
1K0638 And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.  
1K0701 Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.  
1K0702 He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was a hundred cubits and its breadth fifty cubits and its height thirty cubits, and it was built on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.  
1K0703 And it was covered with cedar above the chambers that were on the forty-five pillars, fifteen in each row.  
1K0704 There were window frames in three rows, and window opposite window in three tiers.  
1K0705 All the doorways and windows had square frames, and window was opposite window in three tiers.  
1K0706 And he made the Hall of Pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits. There was a porch in front with pillars, and a canopy in front of them.  
1K0707 And he made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgment, even the Hall of Judgment. It was finished with cedar from floor to rafters.  
1K0708 His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter whom he had taken in marriage.  
1K0709 All these were made of costly stones, cut according to measure, sawed with saws, back and front, even from the foundation to the coping, and from the outside to the great court.  
1K0710 The foundation was of costly stones, huge stones, stones of eight and ten cubits.  
1K0711 And above were costly stones, cut according to measurement, and cedar.  
1K0712 The great court had three courses of cut stone all around, and a course of cedar beams; so had the inner court of the house of the LORD and the vestibule of the house.  
1K0713 And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.  
1K0714 He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. And he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.  
1K0715 He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same.  
1K0716 He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.  
1K0717 There were lattices of checker work with wreaths of chain work for the capitals on the tops of the pillars, a lattice for the one capital and a lattice for the other capital.  
1K0718 Likewise he made pomegranates in two rows around the one latticework to cover the capital that was on the top of the pillar, and he did the same with the other capital.  
1K0719 Now the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars in the vestibule were of lily-work, four cubits.  
1K0720 The capitals were on the two pillars and also above the rounded projection which was beside the latticework. There were two hundred pomegranates in two rows all around, and so with the other capital.  
1K0721 He set up the pillars at the vestibule of the temple. He set up the pillar on the south and called its name Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the north and called its name Boaz.  
1K0722 And on the tops of the pillars was lily-work. Thus the work of the pillars was finished.  
1K0723 Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.  
1K0724 Under its brim were gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.  
1K0725 It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, and all their rear parts were inward.  
1K0726 Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.  
1K0727 He also made the ten stands of bronze. Each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.  
1K0728 This was the construction of the stands: they had panels, and the panels were set in the frames,  
1K0729 and on the panels that were set in the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the frames, both above and below the lions and oxen, there were wreaths of beveled work.  
1K0730 Moreover, each stand had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze, and at the four corners were supports for a basin. The supports were cast with wreaths at the side of each.  
1K0731 Its opening was within a crown that projected upward one cubit. Its opening was round, as a pedestal is made, a cubit and a half deep. At its opening there were carvings, and its panels were square, not round.  
1K0732 And the four wheels were underneath the panels. The axles of the wheels were of one piece with the stands, and the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.  
1K0733 The wheels were made like a chariot wheel; their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast.  
1K0734 There were four supports at the four corners of each stand. The supports were of one piece with the stands.  
1K0735 And on the top of the stand there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the stand its stays and its panels were of one piece with it.  
1K0736 And on the surfaces of its stays and on its panels, he carved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths all around.  
1K0737 After this manner he made the ten stands. All of them were cast alike, of the same measure and the same form.  
1K0738 And he made ten basins of bronze. Each basin held forty baths, each basin measured four cubits, and there was a basin for each of the ten stands.  
1K0739 And he set the stands, five on the south side of the house, and five on the north side of the house. And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house.  
1K0740 Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of the LORD:  
1K0741 the two pillars, the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars, and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars;  
1K0742 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;  
1K0743 the ten stands, and the ten basins on the stands;  
1K0744 and the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath the sea.  
1K0745 Now the pots, the shovels, and the basins, all these vessels in the house of the LORD, which Hiram made for King Solomon, were of burnished bronze.  
1K0746 In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.  
1K0747 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not ascertained.  
1K0748 So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the LORD: the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence,  
1K0749 the lampstands of pure gold, five on the south side and five on the north, before the inner sanctuary; the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;  
1K0750 the cups, snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and fire pans, of pure gold; and the sockets of gold, for the doors of the innermost part of the house, the Most Holy Place, and for the doors of the nave of the temple.  
1K0751 Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.  
1K0801 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers’ houses of the people of Israel, before King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.  
1K0802 And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.  
1K0803 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.  
1K0804 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up.  
1K0805 And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.  
1K0806 Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.  
1K0807 For the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles.  
1K0808 And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day.  
1K0809 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone that Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.  
1K0810 And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, a cloud filled the house of the LORD,  
1K0811 so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.  
1K0812 Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.  
1K0813 I have indeed built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever.”  
1K0814 Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.  
1K0815 And he said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying,  
1K0816 ‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there. But I chose David to be over my people Israel.’  
1K0817 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.  
1K0818 But the LORD said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.  
1K0819 Nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’  
1K0820 Now the LORD has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and I have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.  
1K0821 And there I have provided a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”  
1K0822 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven,  
1K0823 and said, “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above or on earth beneath, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart;  
1K0824 you have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled it this day.  
1K0825 Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.’  
1K0826 Now therefore, O God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David my father.  
1K0827 “But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!  
1K0828 Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O LORD my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you this day,  
1K0829 that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.  
1K0830 And listen to the plea of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen in heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.  
1K0831 “If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,  
1K0832 then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.  
1K0833 “When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and if they turn again to you and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house,  
1K0834 then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to their fathers.  
1K0835 “When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,  
1K0836 then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.  
1K0837 “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,  
1K0838 whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house,  
1K0839 then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind),  
1K0840 that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.  
1K0841 “Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for your name’s sake  
1K0842 (for they shall hear of your great name and your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house,  
1K0843 hear in heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.  
1K0844 “If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the LORD toward the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,  
1K0845 then hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.  
1K0846 “If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,  
1K0847 yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’  
1K0848 if they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen, and the house that I have built for your name,  
1K0849 then hear in heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause  
1K0850 and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions that they have committed against you, and grant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them  
1K0851 (for they are your people, and your heritage, which you brought out of Egypt, from the midst of the iron furnace).  
1K0852 Let your eyes be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, giving ear to them whenever they call to you.  
1K0853 For you separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be your heritage, as you declared through Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.”  
1K0854 Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven.  
1K0855 And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,  
1K0856 “Blessed be the LORD who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant.  
1K0857 The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. May he not leave us or forsake us,  
1K0858 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his rules, which he commanded our fathers.  
1K0859 Let these words of mine, with which I have pleaded before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, and may he maintain the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires,  
1K0860 that all the peoples of the earth may know that the LORD is God; there is no other.  
1K0861 Let your heart therefore be wholly true to the LORD our God, walking in his statutes and keeping his commandments, as at this day.”  
1K0862 Then the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the LORD.  
1K0863 Solomon offered as peace offerings to the LORD 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.  
1K0864 The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD, for there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small to receive the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.  
1K0865 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days.  
1K0866 On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king and went to their homes joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people.  
1K0901 As soon as Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the king’s house and all that Solomon desired to build,  
1K0902 the LORD appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.  
1K0903 And the LORD said to him, “I have heard your prayer and your plea, which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.  
1K0904 And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you, and keeping my statutes and my rules,  
1K0905 then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’  
1K0906 But if you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have set before you, but go and serve other gods and worship them,  
1K0907 then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.  
1K0908 And this house will become a heap of ruins. Everyone passing by it will be astonished and will hiss, and they will say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’  
1K0909 Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore the LORD has brought all this disaster on them.’”  
1K0910 At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king’s house,  
1K0911 and Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold, as much as he desired, King Solomon gave to Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.  
1K0912 But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, they did not please him.  
1K0913 Therefore he said, “What kind of cities are these that you have given me, my brother?” So they are called the land of Cabul to this day.  
1K0914 Hiram had sent to the king 120 talents of gold.  
1K0915 And this is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the LORD and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer  
1K0916 (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife;  
1K0917 so Solomon rebuilt Gezer) and Lower Beth-horon  
1K0918 and Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land of Judah,  
1K0919 and all the store cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.  
1K0920 All the people who were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the people of Israel—  
1K0921 their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction—these Solomon drafted to be slaves, and so they are to this day.  
1K0922 But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.  
1K0923 These were the chief officers who were over Solomon’s work: 550 who had charge of the people who carried on the work.  
1K0924 But Pharaoh’s daughter went up from the city of David to her own house that Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo.  
1K0925 Three times a year Solomon used to offer up burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar that he built to the LORD, making offerings with it before the LORD. So he finished the house.  
1K0926 King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.  
1K0927 And Hiram sent with the fleet his servants, seamen who were familiar with the sea, together with the servants of Solomon.  
1K0928 And they went to Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.  
1K1001 Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to test him with hard questions.  
1K1002 She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.  
1K1003 And Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing hidden from the king that he could not explain to her.  
1K1004 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,  
1K1005 the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, their clothing, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the LORD, there was no more breath in her.  
1K1006 And she said to the king, “The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom,  
1K1007 but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not told me. Your wisdom and prosperity surpass the report that I heard.  
1K1008 Happy are your men! Happy are your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!  
1K1009 Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! Because the LORD loved Israel forever, he has made you king, that you may execute justice and righteousness.”  
1K1010 Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices and precious stones. Never again came such an abundance of spices as these that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.  
1K1011 Moreover, the fleet of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir a very great amount of almug wood and precious stones.  
1K1012 And the king made of the almug wood supports for the house of the LORD and for the king’s house, also lyres and harps for the singers. No such almug wood has come or been seen to this day.  
1K1013 And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what was given her by the bounty of King Solomon. So she turned and went back to her own land with her servants.  
1K1014 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,  
1K1015 besides that which came from the explorers and from the business of the merchants, and from all the kings of the west and from the governors of the land.  
1K1016 King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold; 600 shekels of gold went into each shield.  
1K1017 And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.  
1K1018 The king also made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with the finest gold.  
1K1019 The throne had six steps, and the throne had a round top, and on each side of the seat were armrests and two lions standing beside the armrests,  
1K1020 while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. The like of it was never made in any kingdom.  
1K1021 All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver; silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.  
1K1022 For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet of ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.  
1K1023 Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.  
1K1024 And the whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.  
1K1025 Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.  
1K1026 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.  
1K1027 And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.  
1K1028 And Solomon’s import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king’s traders received them from Kue at a price.  
1K1029 A chariot could be imported from Egypt for 600 shekels of silver and a horse for 150, and so through the king’s traders they were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.  
1K1101 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,  
1K1102 from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.  
1K1103 He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart.  
1K1104 For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.  
1K1105 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.  
1K1106 So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and did not wholly follow the LORD, as David his father had done.  
1K1107 Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.  
1K1108 And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.  
1K1109 And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice  
1K1110 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the LORD commanded.  
1K1111 Therefore the LORD said to Solomon, “Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant.  
1K1112 Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.  
1K1113 However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen.”  
1K1114 And the LORD raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He was of the royal house in Edom.  
1K1115 For when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, he struck down every male in Edom  
1K1116 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom).  
1K1117 But Hadad fled to Egypt, together with certain Edomites of his father’s servants, Hadad still being a little child.  
1K1118 They set out from Midian and came to Paran and took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and assigned him an allowance of food and gave him land.  
1K1119 And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.  
1K1120 And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house. And Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh.  
1K1121 But when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers and that Joab the commander of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.”  
1K1122 But Pharaoh said to him, “What have you lacked with me that you are now seeking to go to your own country?” And he said to him, “Only let me depart.”  
1K1123 God also raised up as an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master Hadadezer king of Zobah.  
1K1124 And he gathered men about him and became leader of a marauding band, after the killing by David. And they went to Damascus and lived there and made him king in Damascus.  
1K1125 He was an adversary of Israel all the days of Solomon, doing harm as Hadad did. And he loathed Israel and reigned over Syria.  
1K1126 Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.  
1K1127 And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king. Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of David his father.  
1K1128 The man Jeroboam was very able, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious he gave him charge over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph.  
1K1129 And at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the road. Now Ahijah had dressed himself in a new garment, and the two of them were alone in the open country.  
1K1130 Then Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it into twelve pieces.  
1K1131 And he said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon and will give you ten tribes  
1K1132 (but he shall have one tribe, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel),  
1K1133 because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.  
1K1134 Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand, but I will make him ruler all the days of his life, for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes.  
1K1135 But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand and will give it to you, ten tribes.  
1K1136 Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.  
1K1137 And I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel.  
1K1138 And if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.  
1K1139 And I will afflict the offspring of David because of this, but not forever.’”  
1K1140 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled into Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.  
1K1141 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?  
1K1142 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.  
1K1143 And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.  
1K1201 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.  
1K1202 And as soon as Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt.  
1K1203 And they sent and called him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and said to Rehoboam,  
1K1204 “Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you.”  
1K1205 He said to them, “Go away for three days, then come again to me.” So the people went away.  
1K1206 Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”  
1K1207 And they said to him, “If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever.”  
1K1208 But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.  
1K1209 And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”  
1K1210 And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us,’ thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s thighs.  
1K1211 And now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”  
1K1212 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, “Come to me again the third day.”  
1K1213 And the king answered the people harshly, and forsaking the counsel that the old men had given him,  
1K1214 he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”  
1K1215 So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by the LORD that he might fulfill his word, which the LORD spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.  
1K1216 And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, “What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David.” So Israel went to their tents.  
1K1217 But Rehoboam reigned over the people of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah.  
1K1218 Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam hurried to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.  
1K1219 So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.  
1K1220 And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David but the tribe of Judah only.  
1K1221 When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.  
1K1222 But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:  
1K1223 “Say to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people,  
1K1224 ‘Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives the people of Israel. Every man return to his home, for this thing is from me.’” So they listened to the word of the LORD and went home again, according to the word of the LORD.  
1K1225 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And he went out from there and built Penuel.  
1K1226 And Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will turn back to the house of David.  
1K1227 If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the temple of the LORD at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”  
1K1228 So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”  
1K1229 And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.  
1K1230 Then this thing became a sin, for the people went as far as Dan to be before one.  
1K1231 He also made temples on high places and appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites.  
1K1232 And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.  
1K1233 He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his own heart. And he instituted a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar to make offerings.  
1K1301 And behold, a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the LORD to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar to make offerings.  
1K1302 And the man cried against the altar by the word of the LORD and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’”  
1K1303 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign that the LORD has spoken: ‘Behold, the altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.’”  
1K1304 And when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him.” And his hand, which he stretched out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.  
1K1305 The altar also was torn down, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.  
1K1306 And the king said to the man of God, “Entreat now the favor of the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me.” And the man of God entreated the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him and became as it was before.  
1K1307 And the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”  
1K1308 And the man of God said to the king, “If you give me half your house, I will not go in with you. And I will not eat bread or drink water in this place,  
1K1309 for so was it commanded me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘You shall neither eat bread nor drink water nor return by the way that you came.’”  
1K1310 So he went another way and did not return by the way that he came to Bethel.  
1K1311 Now an old prophet lived in Bethel. And his sons came and told him all that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told to their father the words that he had spoken to the king.  
1K1312 And their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” And his sons showed him the way that the man of God who came from Judah had gone.  
1K1313 And he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him and he mounted it.  
1K1314 And he went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak. And he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” And he said, “I am.”  
1K1315 Then he said to him, “Come home with me and eat bread.”  
1K1316 And he said, “I may not return with you, or go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink water with you in this place,  
1K1317 for it was said to me by the word of the LORD, ‘You shall neither eat bread nor drink water there, nor return by the way that you came.’”  
1K1318 And he said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the LORD, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house that he may eat bread and drink water.’” But he lied to him.  
1K1319 So he went back with him and ate bread in his house and drank water.  
1K1320 And as they sat at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back.  
1K1321 And he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Because you have disobeyed the word of the LORD and have not kept the command that the LORD your God commanded you,  
1K1322 but have come back and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no bread and drink no water,” your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.’”  
1K1323 And after he had eaten bread and drunk, he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back.  
1K1324 And as he went away a lion met him on the road and killed him. And his body was thrown in the road, and the donkey stood beside it; the lion also stood beside the body.  
1K1325 And behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown in the road and the lion standing by the body. And they came and told it in the city where the old prophet lived.  
1K1326 And when the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard of it, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the word of the LORD; therefore the LORD has given him to the lion, which has torn him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD spoke to him.”  
1K1327 And he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” And they saddled it.  
1K1328 And he went and found his body thrown in the road, and the donkey and the lion standing beside the body. The lion had not eaten the body or torn the donkey.  
1K1329 And the prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back to the city to mourn and to bury him.  
1K1330 And he laid the body in his own grave. And they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”  
1K1331 And after he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.  
1K1332 For the saying that he called out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria shall surely come to pass.”  
1K1333 After this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people. Any who would, he ordained to be priests of the high places.  
1K1334 And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, so as to cut it off and to destroy it from the face of the earth.  
1K1401 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.  
1K1402 And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise, and disguise yourself, that it not be known that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said of me that I should be king over this people.  
1K1403 Take with you ten loaves, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what shall happen to the child.”  
1K1404 Jeroboam’s wife did so. She arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.  
1K1405 And the LORD said to Ahijah, “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus shall you say to her.” When she came, she pretended to be another woman.  
1K1406 But when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another? For I am charged with unbearable news for you.  
1K1407 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: “Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over my people Israel  
1K1408 and tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, and yet you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commandments and followed me with all his heart, doing only that which was right in my eyes,  
1K1409 but you have done evil above all who were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods and metal images, provoking me to anger, and have cast me behind your back,  
1K1410 therefore behold, I will bring harm upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both bond and free in Israel, and will burn up the house of Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone.  
1K1411 Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat, for the LORD has spoken it.”’  
1K1412 Arise therefore, go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child shall die.  
1K1413 And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him, for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found something pleasing to the LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.  
1K1414 Moreover, the LORD will raise up for himself a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam today. And henceforth,  
1K1415 the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and root up Israel out of this good land that he gave to their fathers and scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger.  
1K1416 And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin.”  
1K1417 Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah. And as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.  
1K1418 And all Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.  
1K1419 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.  
1K1420 And the time that Jeroboam reigned was twenty-two years. And he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.  
1K1421 Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.  
1K1422 And Judah did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.  
1K1423 For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,  
1K1424 and there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.  
1K1425 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.  
1K1426 He took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house. He took away everything. He also took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made,  
1K1427 and King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.  
1K1428 And as often as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard carried them and brought them back to the guardroom.  
1K1429 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?  
1K1430 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.  
1K1431 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite. And Abijam his son reigned in his place.  
1K1501 Now in the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah.  
1K1502 He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.  
1K1503 And he walked in all the sins that his father did before him, and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.  
1K1504 Nevertheless, for David’s sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem,  
1K1505 because David did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.  
1K1506 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.  
1K1507 The rest of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.  
1K1508 And Abijam slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place.  
1K1509 In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah,  
1K1510 and he reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.  
1K1511 And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as David his father had done.  
1K1512 He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.  
1K1513 He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.  
1K1514 But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the LORD all his days.  
1K1515 And he brought into the house of the LORD the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels.  
1K1516 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.  
1K1517 Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.  
1K1518 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house and gave them into the hands of his servants. And King Asa sent them to Ben-hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying,  
1K1519 “Let there be a covenant between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you a present of silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.”  
1K1520 And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.  
1K1521 And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and he lived in Tirzah.  
1K1522 Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah, none was exempt, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them King Asa built Geba of Benjamin and Mizpah.  
1K1523 Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, all his might, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in his old age he was diseased in his feet.  
1K1524 And Asa slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place.  
1K1525 Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years.  
1K1526 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.  
1K1527 Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him. And Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.  
1K1528 So Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa king of Judah and reigned in his place.  
1K1529 And as soon as he was king, he killed all the house of Jeroboam. He left to the house of Jeroboam not one that breathed, until he had destroyed it, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite.  
1K1530 It was for the sins of Jeroboam that he sinned and that he made Israel to sin, and because of the anger to which he provoked the LORD, the God of Israel.  
1K1531 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?  
1K1532 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.  
1K1533 In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel at Tirzah, and he reigned twenty-four years.  
1K1534 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.  
1K1601 And the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,  
1K1602 “Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins,  
1K1603 behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.  
1K1604 Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the field the birds of the heavens shall eat.”  
1K1605 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?  
1K1606 And Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried at Tirzah, and Elah his son reigned in his place.  
1K1607 Moreover, the word of the LORD came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and also because he destroyed it.  
1K1608 In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah, and he reigned two years.  
1K1609 But his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. When he was at Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah,  
1K1610 Zimri came in and struck him down and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.  
1K1611 When he began to reign, as soon as he had seated himself on his throne, he struck down all the house of Baasha. He did not leave him a single male of his relatives or his friends.  
1K1612 Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,  
1K1613 for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idols.  
1K1614 Now the rest of the acts of Elah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?  
1K1615 In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the troops were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines,  
1K1616 and the troops who were encamped heard it said, “Zimri has conspired, and he has killed the king.” Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.  
1K1617 So Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.  
1K1618 And when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over him with fire and died,  
1K1619 because of his sins that he committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD, walking in the way of Jeroboam, and for his sin which he committed, making Israel to sin.  
1K1620 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the conspiracy that he made, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?  
1K1621 Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts. Half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king, and half followed Omri.  
1K1622 But the people who followed Omri overcame the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath. So Tibni died, and Omri became king.  
1K1623 In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel, and he reigned for twelve years; six years he reigned in Tirzah.  
1K1624 He bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver, and he fortified the hill and called the name of the city that he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.  
1K1625 Omri did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and did more evil than all who were before him.  
1K1626 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in the sins that he made Israel to sin, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.  
1K1627 Now the rest of the acts of Omri that he did, and the might that he showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?  
1K1628 And Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son reigned in his place.  
1K1629 In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.  
1K1630 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him.  
1K1631 And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him.  
1K1632 He erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.  
1K1633 And Ahab made an Asherah. Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.  
1K1634 In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. He laid its foundation at the cost of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.  
1K1701 Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”  
1K1702 And the word of the LORD came to him:  
1K1703 “Depart from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.  
1K1704 You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”  
1K1705 So he went and did according to the word of the LORD. He went and lived by the brook Cherith that is east of the Jordan.  
1K1706 And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.  
1K1707 And after a while the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.  
1K1708 Then the word of the LORD came to him,  
1K1709 “Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you.”  
1K1710 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, “Bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.”  
1K1711 And as she was going to bring it, he called to her and said, “Bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.”  
1K1712 And she said, “As the LORD your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.”  
1K1713 And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said. But first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterward make something for yourself and your son.  
1K1714 For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘The jar of flour shall not be spent, and the jug of oil shall not be empty, until the day that the LORD sends rain upon the earth.’”  
1K1715 And she went and did as Elijah said. And she and he and her household ate for many days.  
1K1716 The jar of flour was not spent, neither did the jug of oil become empty, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by Elijah.  
1K1717 After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill. And his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.  
1K1718 And she said to Elijah, “What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance and to cause the death of my son!”  
1K1719 And he said to her, “Give me your son.” And he took him from her arms and carried him up into the upper chamber where he lodged, and laid him on his own bed.  
1K1720 And he cried to the LORD, “O LORD my God, have you brought calamity even upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?”  
1K1721 Then he stretched himself upon the child three times and cried to the LORD, “O LORD my God, let this child’s life come into him again.”  
1K1722 And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah. And the life of the child came into him again, and he revived.  
1K1723 And Elijah took the child and brought him down from the upper chamber into the house and delivered him to his mother. And Elijah said, “See, your son lives.”  
1K1724 And the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth.”  
1K1801 After many days the word of the LORD came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain upon the earth.”  
1K1802 So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.  
1K1803 And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly,  
1K1804 and when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water.)  
1K1805 And Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals.”  
1K1806 So they divided the land between them to pass through it. Ahab went in one direction by himself, and Obadiah went in another direction by himself.  
1K1807 And as Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. And Obadiah recognized him and fell on his face and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”  
1K1808 And he answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here.’”  
1K1809 And he said, “How have I sinned, that you would give your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?  
1K1810 As the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. And when they would say, ‘He is not here,’ he would take an oath of the kingdom or nation, that they had not found you.  
1K1811 And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’  
1K1812 And as soon as I have gone from you, the Spirit of the LORD will carry you I know not where. And so, when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find you, he will kill me, although I your servant have feared the LORD from my youth.  
1K1813 Has it not been told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred men of the LORD’s prophets by fifties in a cave and fed them with bread and water?  
1K1814 And now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”’; and he will kill me.”  
1K1815 And Elijah said, “As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”  
1K1816 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him. And Ahab went to meet Elijah.  
1K1817 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?”  
1K1818 And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, because you have abandoned the commandments of the LORD and followed the Baals.  
1K1819 Now therefore send and gather all Israel to me at Mount Carmel, and the 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”  
1K1820 So Ahab sent to all the people of Israel and gathered the prophets together at Mount Carmel.  
1K1821 And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” And the people did not answer him a word.  
1K1822 Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left a prophet of the LORD, but Baal’s prophets are 450 men.  
1K1823 Let two bulls be given to us, and let them choose one bull for themselves and cut it in pieces and lay it on the wood, but put no fire to it. And I will prepare the other bull and lay it on the wood and put no fire to it.  
1K1824 And you call upon the name of your god, and I will call upon the name of the LORD, and the God who answers by fire, he is God.” And all the people answered, “It is well spoken.”  
1K1825 Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first, for you are many, and call upon the name of your god, but put no fire to it.”  
1K1826 And they took the bull that was given them, and they prepared it and called upon the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no voice, and no one answered. And they limped around the altar that they had made.  
1K1827 And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.”  
1K1828 And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.  
1K1829 And as midday passed, they raved on until the time of the offering of the oblation, but there was no voice. No one answered; no one paid attention.  
1K1830 Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” And all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that had been thrown down.  
1K1831 Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD came, saying, “Israel shall be your name,”  
1K1832 and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD. And he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two seahs of seed.  
1K1833 And he put the wood in order and cut the bull in pieces and laid it on the wood. And he said, “Fill four jars with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.”  
1K1834 And he said, “Do it a second time.” And they did it a second time. And he said, “Do it a third time.” And they did it a third time.  
1K1835 And the water ran around the altar and filled the trench also with water.  
1K1836 And at the time of the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, “O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.  
1K1837 Answer me, O LORD, answer me, that this people may know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.”  
1K1838 Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.  
1K1839 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, “The LORD, he is God; the LORD, he is God.”  
1K1840 And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.” And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slaughtered them there.  
1K1841 And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is a sound of the rushing of rain.”  
1K1842 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Mount Carmel. And he bowed himself down on the earth and put his face between his knees.  
1K1843 And he said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” And he went up and looked and said, “There is nothing.” And he said, “Go again,” seven times.  
1K1844 And at the seventh time he said, “Behold, a little cloud like a man’s hand is rising from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, lest the rain stop you.’”  
1K1845 And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.  
1K1846 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah, and he gathered up his garment and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.  
1K1901 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.  
1K1902 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.”  
1K1903 Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.  
1K1904 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”  
1K1905 And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.”  
1K1906 And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again.  
1K1907 And the angel of the LORD came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.”  
1K1908 And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God.  
1K1909 There he came to a cave and lodged in it. And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said to him, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”  
1K1910 He said, “I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.”  
1K1911 And he said, “Go out and stand on the mount before the LORD.” And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind tore the mountains and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.  
1K1912 And after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire the sound of a low whisper.  
1K1913 And when Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. And behold, there came a voice to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”  
1K1914 He said, “I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.”  
1K1915 And the LORD said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.  
1K1916 And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.  
1K1917 And the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael shall Jehu put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha put to death.  
1K1918 Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”  
1K1919 So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen in front of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and cast his cloak upon him.  
1K1920 And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, “Let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?”  
1K1921 And he returned from following him and took the yoke of oxen and sacrificed them and boiled their flesh with the yokes of the oxen and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he arose and went after Elijah and assisted him.  
1K2001 Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his army together. Thirty-two kings were with him, and horses and chariots. And he went up and closed in on Samaria and fought against it.  
1K2002 And he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel and said to him, “Thus says Ben-hadad:  
1K2003 ‘Your silver and your gold are mine; your best wives and children also are mine.’”  
1K2004 And the king of Israel answered, “As you say, my lord, O king, I am yours, and all that I have.”  
1K2005 The messengers came again and said, “Thus says Ben-hadad: ‘I sent to you, saying, “Deliver to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children.”  
1K2006 Nevertheless I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search your house and the houses of your servants and lay hands on whatever pleases you and take it away.’”  
1K2007 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, “Mark, now, and see how this man is seeking trouble, for he sent to me for my wives and my children, and for my silver and my gold, and I did not refuse him.”  
1K2008 And all the elders and all the people said to him, “Do not listen or consent.”  
1K2009 So he said to the messengers of Ben-hadad, “Tell my lord the king, ‘All that you first demanded of your servant I will do, but this thing I cannot do.’” And the messengers departed and brought him word again.  
1K2010 Ben-hadad sent to him and said, “The gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people who follow me.”  
1K2011 And the king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Let not him who straps on his armor boast himself as he who takes it off.’”  
1K2012 When Ben-hadad heard this message as he was drinking with the kings in the booths, he said to his men, “Take your positions.” And they took their positions against the city.  
1K2013 And behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel and said, “Thus says the LORD, Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will give it into your hand this day, and you shall know that I am the LORD.”  
1K2014 And Ahab said, “By whom?” He said, “Thus says the LORD, By the servants of the governors of the districts.” Then he said, “Who shall begin the battle?” He answered, “You.”  
1K2015 Then he mustered the servants of the governors of the districts, and they were 232. And after them he mustered all the people of Israel, seven thousand.  
1K2016 And they went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the booths, he and the thirty-two kings who helped him.  
1K2017 The servants of the governors of the districts went out first. And Ben-hadad sent out scouts, and they reported to him, “Men are coming out from Samaria.”  
1K2018 He said, “If they have come out for peace, take them alive. Or if they have come out for war, take them alive.”  
1K2019 So these went out of the city, the servants of the governors of the districts and the army that followed them.  
1K2020 And each struck down his man. The Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them, but Ben-hadad king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.  
1K2021 And the king of Israel went out and struck the horses and chariots, and struck the Syrians with a great blow.  
1K2022 Then the prophet came near to the king of Israel and said to him, “Come, strengthen yourself, and consider well what you have to do, for in the spring the king of Syria will come up against you.”  
1K2023 And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills, and so they were stronger than we. But let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.  
1K2024 And do this: remove the kings, each from his post, and put commanders in their places,  
1K2025 and muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot. Then we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.” And he listened to their voice and did so.  
1K2026 In the spring, Ben-hadad mustered the Syrians and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.  
1K2027 And the people of Israel were mustered and were provisioned and went against them. The people of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of goats, but the Syrians filled the country.  
1K2028 And a man of God came near and said to the king of Israel, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Because the Syrians have said, “The LORD is a god of the hills but he is not a god of the valleys,” therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD.’”  
1K2029 And they encamped opposite one another seven days. Then on the seventh day the battle was joined. And the people of Israel struck down of the Syrians 100,000 foot soldiers in one day.  
1K2030 And the rest fled into the city of Aphek, and the wall fell upon 27,000 men who were left. Ben-hadad also fled and entered an inner chamber in the city.  
1K2031 And his servants said to him, “Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life.”  
1K2032 So they tied sackcloth around their waists and put ropes on their heads and went to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please, let me live.’” And he said, “Does he still live? He is my brother.”  
1K2033 Now the men were watching for a sign, and they quickly took it up from him and said, “Yes, your brother Ben-hadad.” Then he said, “Go and bring him.” Then Ben-hadad came out to him, and he caused him to come up into the chariot.  
1K2034 And Ben-hadad said to him, “The cities that my father took from your father I will restore, and you may establish bazaars for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” And Ahab said, “I will let you go on these terms.” So he made a covenant with him and let him go.  
1K2035 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow at the command of the LORD, “Strike me, please.” But the man refused to strike him.  
1K2036 Then he said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, behold, as soon as you have gone from me, a lion shall strike you down.” And as soon as he had departed from him, a lion met him and struck him down.  
1K2037 Then he found another man and said, “Strike me, please.” And the man struck him—struck him and wounded him.  
1K2038 So the prophet departed and waited for the king by the way, disguising himself with a bandage over his eyes.  
1K2039 And as the king passed, he cried to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle, and behold, a soldier turned and brought a man to me and said, ‘Guard this man; if by any means he is missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’  
1K2040 And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.” The king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it.”  
1K2041 Then he hurried to take the bandage away from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.  
1K2042 And he said to him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall be for his life, and your people for his people.’”  
1K2043 And the king of Israel went to his house vexed and sullen and came to Samaria.  
1K2101 Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard in Jezreel, beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.  
1K2102 And after this Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house, and I will give you a better vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in money.”  
1K2103 But Naboth said to Ahab, “The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”  
1K2104 And Ahab went into his house vexed and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and would eat no food.  
1K2105 But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, “Why is your spirit so vexed that you eat no food?”  
1K2106 And he said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money, or else, if it please you, I will give you another vineyard for it.’ And he answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”  
1K2107 And Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern Israel? Arise and eat bread and let your heart be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”  
1K2108 So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and she sent the letters to the elders and the leaders who lived with Naboth in his city.  
1K2109 And she wrote in the letters, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people.  
1K2110 And set two worthless men opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, ‘You have cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”  
1K2111 And the men of his city, the elders and the leaders who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them. As it was written in the letters that she had sent to them,  
1K2112 they proclaimed a fast and set Naboth at the head of the people.  
1K2113 And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.  
1K2114 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned; he is dead.”  
1K2115 As soon as Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money, for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”  
1K2116 And as soon as Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.  
1K2117 Then the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,  
1K2118 “Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession.  
1K2119 And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD: “In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood.”’”  
1K2120 Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the LORD.  
1K2121 Behold, I will bring disaster upon you. I will utterly burn you up, and will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel.  
1K2122 And I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you have made Israel to sin.  
1K2123 And of Jezebel the LORD also said, ‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel within the walls of Jezreel.’  
1K2124 Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat.”  
1K2125 (There was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the LORD like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.  
1K2126 He acted very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the LORD cast out before the people of Israel.)  
1K2127 And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.  
1K2128 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,  
1K2129 “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son’s days I will bring the disaster upon his house.”  
1K2201 For three years Syria and Israel continued without war.  
1K2202 But in the third year Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.  
1K2203 And the king of Israel said to his servants, “Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, and we keep quiet and do not take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?”  
1K2204 And he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle at Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”  
1K2205 And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Inquire first for the word of the LORD.”  
1K2206 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”  
1K2207 But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not here another prophet of the LORD of whom we may inquire?”  
1K2208 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah, but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”  
1K2209 Then the king of Israel summoned an officer and said, “Bring quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah.”  
1K2210 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.  
1K2211 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron and said, “Thus says the LORD, ‘With these you shall push the Syrians until they are destroyed.’”  
1K2212 And all the prophets prophesied so and said, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph; the LORD will give it into the hand of the king.”  
1K2213 And the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king. Let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.”  
1K2214 But Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I will speak.”  
1K2215 And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we refrain?” And he answered him, “Go up and triumph; the LORD will give it into the hand of the king.”  
1K2216 But the king said to him, “How many times shall I make you swear that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?”  
1K2217 And he said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.’”  
1K2218 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”  
1K2219 And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left;  
1K2220 and the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another.  
1K2221 Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, saying, ‘I will entice him.’  
1K2222 And the LORD said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’  
1K2223 Now therefore behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the LORD has declared disaster for you.”  
1K2224 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “How did the Spirit of the LORD go from me to speak to you?”  
1K2225 And Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.”  
1K2226 And the king of Israel said, “Seize Micaiah, and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son,  
1K2227 and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in prison and feed him meager rations of bread and water, until I come in peace.”’”  
1K2228 And Micaiah said, “If you return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Hear, all you peoples!”  
1K2229 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.  
1K2230 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes.” And the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.  
1K2231 Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, “Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel.”  
1K2232 And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is surely the king of Israel.” So they turned to fight against him. And Jehoshaphat cried out.  
1K2233 And when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.  
1K2234 But a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded.”  
1K2235 And the battle continued that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians, until at evening he died. And the blood of the wound flowed into the bottom of the chariot.  
1K2236 And about sunset a cry went through the army, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”  
1K2237 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria. And they buried the king in Samaria.  
1K2238 And they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood, and the prostitutes washed themselves in it, according to the word of the LORD that he had spoken.  
1K2239 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the ivory house that he built and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?  
1K2240 So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.  
1K2241 Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.  
1K2242 Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.  
1K2243 He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD. Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.  
1K2244 Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel.  
1K2245 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?  
1K2246 And from the land he exterminated the remnant of the male cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa.  
1K2247 There was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.  
1K2248 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber.  
1K2249 Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships,” but Jehoshaphat was not willing.  
1K2250 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.  
1K2251 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.  
1K2252 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.  
1K2253 He served Baal and worshiped him and provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger in every way that his father had done.  
2K0101 After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.  
2K0102 Now Ahaziah fell through the lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria, and lay sick; so he sent messengers, telling them, “Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I shall recover from this sickness.”  
2K0103 But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?  
2K0104 Now therefore thus says the LORD, You shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’” So Elijah went.  
2K0105 The messengers returned to the king, and he said to them, “Why have you returned?”  
2K0106 And they said to him, “There came a man to meet us, and said to us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you, and say to him, Thus says the LORD, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’”  
2K0107 He said to them, “What kind of man was he who came to meet you and told you these things?”  
2K0108 They answered him, “He wore a garment of hair, with a belt of leather about his waist.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”  
2K0109 Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty men with his fifty. He went up to Elijah, who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, “O man of God, the king says, ‘Come down.’”  
2K0110 But Elijah answered the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.  
2K0111 Again the king sent to him another captain of fifty men with his fifty. And he answered and said to him, “O man of God, this is the king’s order, ‘Come down quickly!’”  
2K0112 But Elijah answered them, “If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.  
2K0113 Again the king sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up and came and fell on his knees before Elijah and entreated him, “O man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty servants of yours, be precious in your sight.  
2K0114 Behold, fire came down from heaven and consumed the two former captains of fifty men with their fifties, but now let my life be precious in your sight.”  
2K0115 Then the angel of the LORD said to Elijah, “Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.” So he arose and went down with him to the king  
2K0116 and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron—is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word?—therefore you shall not come down from the bed to which you have gone up, but you shall surely die.’”  
2K0117 So he died according to the word of the LORD that Elijah had spoken. Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, because Ahaziah had no son.  
2K0118 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?  
2K0201 Now when the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal.  
2K0202 And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.  
2K0203 And the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the LORD will take away your master from over you?” And he said, “Yes, I know it; keep quiet.”  
2K0204 Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Jericho.” But he said, “As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.  
2K0205 The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho drew near to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the LORD will take away your master from over you?” And he answered, “Yes, I know it; keep quiet.”  
2K0206 Then Elijah said to him, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to the Jordan.” But he said, “As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on.  
2K0207 Fifty men of the sons of the prophets also went and stood at some distance from them, as they both were standing by the Jordan.  
2K0208 Then Elijah took his cloak and rolled it up and struck the water, and the water was parted to the one side and to the other, till the two of them could go over on dry ground.  
2K0209 When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “Please let there be a double portion of your spirit on me.”  
2K0210 And he said, “You have asked a hard thing; yet, if you see me as I am being taken from you, it shall be so for you, but if you do not see me, it shall not be so.”  
2K0211 And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.  
2K0212 And Elisha saw it and he cried, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” And he saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.  
2K0213 And he took up the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.  
2K0214 Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the water, saying, “Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” And when he had struck the water, the water was parted to the one side and to the other, and Elisha went over.  
2K0215 Now when the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho saw him opposite them, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they came to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.  
2K0216 And they said to him, “Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. It may be that the Spirit of the LORD has caught him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley.” And he said, “You shall not send.”  
2K0217 But when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, “Send.” They sent therefore fifty men. And for three days they sought him but did not find him.  
2K0218 And they came back to him while he was staying at Jericho, and he said to them, “Did I not say to you, ‘Do not go’?”  
2K0219 Now the men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees, but the water is bad, and the land is unfruitful.”  
2K0220 He said, “Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it.” So they brought it to him.  
2K0221 Then he went to the spring of water and threw salt in it and said, “Thus says the LORD, I have healed this water; from now on neither death nor miscarriage shall come from it.”  
2K0222 So the water has been healed to this day, according to the word that Elisha spoke.  
2K0223 He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”  
2K0224 And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.  
2K0225 From there he went on to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.  
2K0301 In the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twelve years.  
2K0302 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, though not like his father and mother, for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.  
2K0303 Nevertheless, he clung to the sin of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from it.  
2K0304 Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he had to deliver to the king of Israel 100,000 lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.  
2K0305 But when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.  
2K0306 So King Jehoram marched out of Samaria at that time and mustered all Israel.  
2K0307 And he went and sent word to Jehoshaphat king of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to battle against Moab?” And he said, “I will go. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”  
2K0308 Then he said, “By which way shall we march?” Jehoram answered, “By the way of the wilderness of Edom.”  
2K0309 So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom. And when they had made a circuitous march of seven days, there was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.  
2K0310 Then the king of Israel said, “Alas! The LORD has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.”  
2K0311 And Jehoshaphat said, “Is there no prophet of the LORD here, through whom we may inquire of the LORD?” Then one of the king of Israel’s servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.”  
2K0312 And Jehoshaphat said, “The word of the LORD is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.  
2K0313 And Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother.” But the king of Israel said to him, “No; it is the LORD who has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.”  
2K0314 And Elisha said, “As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, were it not that I have regard for Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would neither look at you nor see you.  
2K0315 But now bring me a musician.” And when the musician played, the hand of the LORD came upon him.  
2K0316 And he said, “Thus says the LORD, ‘I will make this dry streambed full of pools.’  
2K0317 For thus says the LORD, ‘You shall not see wind or rain, but that streambed shall be filled with water, so that you shall drink, you, your livestock, and your animals.’  
2K0318 This is a light thing in the sight of the LORD. He will also give the Moabites into your hand,  
2K0319 and you shall attack every fortified city and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree and stop up all springs of water and ruin every good piece of land with stones.”  
2K0320 The next morning, about the time of offering the sacrifice, behold, water came from the direction of Edom, till the country was filled with water.  
2K0321 When all the Moabites heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, all who were able to put on armor, from the youngest to the oldest, were called out and were drawn up at the border.  
2K0322 And when they rose early in the morning and the sun shone on the water, the Moabites saw the water opposite them as red as blood.  
2K0323 And they said, “This is blood; the kings have surely fought together and struck one another down. Now then, Moab, to the spoil!”  
2K0324 But when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose and struck the Moabites, till they fled before them. And they went forward, striking the Moabites as they went.  
2K0325 And they overthrew the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw a stone until it was covered. They stopped every spring of water and felled all the good trees, till only its stones were left in Kir-hareseth, and the slingers surrounded and attacked it.  
2K0326 When the king of Moab saw that the battle was going against him, he took with him 700 swordsmen to break through, opposite the king of Edom, but they could not.  
2K0327 Then he took his oldest son who was to reign in his place and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. And there came great wrath against Israel. And they withdrew from him and returned to their own land.  
2K0401 Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.”  
2K0402 And Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me; what have you in the house?” And she said, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.”  
2K0403 Then he said, “Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few.  
2K0404 Then go in and shut the door behind yourself and your sons and pour into all these vessels. And when one is full, set it aside.”  
2K0405 So she went from him and shut the door behind herself and her sons. And as she poured they brought the vessels to her.  
2K0406 When the vessels were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another vessel.” And he said to her, “There is not another.” Then the oil stopped flowing.  
2K0407 She came and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on the rest.”  
2K0408 One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food.  
2K0409 And she said to her husband, “Behold now, I know that this is a holy man of God who is continually passing our way.  
2K0410 Let us make a small room on the roof with walls and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there.”  
2K0411 One day he came there, and he turned into the chamber and rested there.  
2K0412 And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.  
2K0413 And he said to him, “Say now to her, ‘See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?’” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”  
2K0414 And he said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.”  
2K0415 He said, “Call her.” And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway.  
2K0416 And he said, “At this season, about this time next year, you shall embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your servant.”  
2K0417 But the woman conceived, and she bore a son about that time the following spring, as Elisha had said to her.  
2K0418 When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father among the reapers.  
2K0419 And he said to his father, “Oh, my head, my head!” The father said to his servant, “Carry him to his mother.”  
2K0420 And when he had lifted him and brought him to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon, and then he died.  
2K0421 And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God and shut the door behind him and went out.  
2K0422 Then she called to her husband and said, “Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, that I may quickly go to the man of God and come back again.”  
2K0423 And he said, “Why will you go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath.” She said, “All is well.”  
2K0424 Then she saddled the donkey, and she said to her servant, “Urge the animal on; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you.”  
2K0425 So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her coming, he said to Gehazi his servant, “Look, there is the Shunammite.  
2K0426 Run at once to meet her and say to her, ‘Is all well with you? Is all well with your husband? Is all well with the child?’” And she answered, “All is well.”  
2K0427 And when she came to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to push her away. But the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for she is in bitter distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”  
2K0428 Then she said, “Did I ask my lord for a son? Did I not say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”  
2K0429 He said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment and take my staff in your hand and go. If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not reply. And lay my staff on the face of the child.”  
2K0430 Then the mother of the child said, “As the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So he arose and followed her.  
2K0431 Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the face of the child, but there was no sound or sign of life. Therefore he returned to meet him and told him, “The child has not awakened.”  
2K0432 When Elisha came into the house, he saw the child lying dead on his bed.  
2K0433 So he went in and shut the door behind the two of them and prayed to the LORD.  
2K0434 Then he went up and lay on the child, putting his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands. And as he stretched himself upon him, the flesh of the child became warm.  
2K0435 Then he got up again and walked once back and forth in the house, and went up and stretched himself upon him. The child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.  
2K0436 Then he summoned Gehazi and said, “Call this Shunammite.” So he called her. And when she came to him, he said, “Pick up your son.”  
2K0437 She came and fell at his feet, bowing to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.  
2K0438 And Elisha came again to Gilgal when there was a famine in the land. And as the sons of the prophets were sitting before him, he said to his servant, “Set on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”  
2K0439 One of them went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, not knowing what they were.  
2K0440 And they poured out some for the men to eat. But while they were eating of the stew, they cried out, “O man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.  
2K0441 He said, “Then bring flour.” And he threw it into the pot and said, “Pour some out for the men, that they may eat.” And there was no harm in the pot.  
2K0442 A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, “Give to the men, that they may eat.”  
2K0443 But his servant said, “How can I set this before a hundred men?” So he repeated, “Give them to the men, that they may eat, for thus says the LORD, ‘They shall eat and have some left.’”  
2K0444 So he set it before them. And they ate and had some left, according to the word of the LORD.  
2K0501 Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.  
2K0502 Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a little girl from the land of Israel, and she worked in the service of Naaman’s wife.  
2K0503 She said to her mistress, “Would that my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”  
2K0504 So Naaman went in and told his lord, “Thus and so spoke the girl from the land of Israel.”  
2K0505 And the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So he went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.  
2K0506 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, “When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you Naaman my servant, that you may cure him of his leprosy.”  
2K0507 And when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Only consider, and see how he is seeking a quarrel with me.”  
2K0508 But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel.”  
2K0509 So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood at the door of Elisha’s house.  
2K0510 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean.”  
2K0511 But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, “Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.  
2K0512 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.  
2K0513 But his servants came near and said to him, “My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you; will you not do it? Has he actually said to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”  
2K0514 So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.  
2K0515 Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, “Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant.”  
2K0516 But he said, “As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused.  
2K0517 Then Naaman said, “If not, please let there be given to your servant two mule loads of earth, for from now on your servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god but the LORD.  
2K0518 In this matter may the LORD pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, leaning on my arm, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon your servant in this matter.”  
2K0519 He said to him, “Go in peace.” But when Naaman had gone from him a short distance,  
2K0520 Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “See, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. As the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”  
2K0521 So Gehazi followed Naaman. And when Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and said, “Is all well?”  
2K0522 And he said, “All is well. My master has sent me to say, ‘There have just now come to me from the hill country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’”  
2K0523 And Naaman said, “Be pleased to accept two talents.” And he urged him and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants. And they carried them before Gehazi.  
2K0524 And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand and put them in the house, and he sent the men away, and they departed.  
2K0525 He went in and stood before his master, and Elisha said to him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” And he said, “Your servant went nowhere.”  
2K0526 But he said to him, “Did not my heart go when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male servants and female servants?  
2K0527 Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence a leper, like snow.  
2K0601 Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See, the place where we dwell under your charge is too small for us.  
2K0602 Let us go to the Jordan and each of us get there a log, and let us make a place for us to dwell there.” And he answered, “Go.”  
2K0603 Then one of them said, “Be pleased to go with your servants.” And he answered, “I will go.”  
2K0604 So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.  
2K0605 But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water, and he cried out, “Alas, my master! It was borrowed.”  
2K0606 Then the man of God said, “Where did it fall?” When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there and made the iron float.  
2K0607 And he said, “Take it up.” So he reached out his hand and took it.  
2K0608 Once when the king of Syria was warring against Israel, he took counsel with his servants, saying, “At such and such a place shall be my camp.”  
2K0609 But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, “Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are going down there.”  
2K0610 And the king of Israel sent to the place about which the man of God told him. Thus he used to warn him, so that he saved himself there more than once or twice.  
2K0611 And the mind of the king of Syria was greatly troubled because of this thing, and he called his servants and said to them, “Will you not show me who of us is for the king of Israel?”  
2K0612 And one of his servants said, “None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”  
2K0613 And he said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him.” It was told him, “Behold, he is in Dothan.”  
2K0614 So he sent there horses and chariots and a great army, and they came by night and surrounded the city.  
2K0615 When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was all around the city. And the servant said, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”  
2K0616 He said, “Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”  
2K0617 Then Elisha prayed and said, “O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see.” So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw, and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.  
2K0618 And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.” So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.  
2K0619 And Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” And he led them to Samaria.  
2K0620 As soon as they entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see.” So the LORD opened their eyes and they saw, and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.  
2K0621 As soon as the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, “My father, shall I strike them down? Shall I strike them down?”  
2K0622 He answered, “You shall not strike them down. Would you strike down those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master.”  
2K0623 So he prepared for them a great feast, and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the Syrians did not come again on raids into the land of Israel.  
2K0624 Afterward Ben-hadad king of Syria mustered his entire army and went up and besieged Samaria.  
2K0625 And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.  
2K0626 Now as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”  
2K0627 And he said, “If the LORD will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?”  
2K0628 And the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’  
2K0629 So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”  
2K0630 When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes—now he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body—  
2K0631 and he said, “May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today.”  
2K0632 Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence, but before the messenger arrived Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”  
2K0633 And while he was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him and said, “This trouble is from the LORD! Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”  
2K0701 But Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD: thus says the LORD, Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.”  
2K0702 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, “If the LORD himself should make windows in heaven, could this thing be?” But he said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”  
2K0703 Now there were four men who were lepers at the entrance to the gate. And they said to one another, “Why are we sitting here until we die?  
2K0704 If we say, ‘Let us enter the city,’ the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. So now come, let us go over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare our lives we shall live, and if they kill us we shall but die.”  
2K0705 So they arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Syrians. But when they came to the edge of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no one there.  
2K0706 For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians hear the sound of chariots and of horses, the sound of a great army, so that they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us.”  
2K0707 So they fled away in the twilight and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeys, leaving the camp as it was, and fled for their lives.  
2K0708 And when these lepers came to the edge of the camp, they went into a tent and ate and drank, and they carried off silver and gold and clothing and went and hid them. Then they came back and entered another tent and carried off things from it and went and hid them.  
2K0709 Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come; let us go and tell the king’s household.”  
2K0710 So they came and called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, “We came to the camp of the Syrians, and behold, there was no one to be seen or heard there, nothing but the horses tied and the donkeys tied and the tents as they were.”  
2K0711 Then the gatekeepers called out, and it was told within the king’s household.  
2K0712 And the king rose in the night and said to his servants, “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.’”  
2K0713 And one of his servants said, “Let some men take five of the remaining horses, seeing that those who are left here will fare like the whole multitude of Israel who have already perished. Let us send and see.”  
2K0714 So they took two horsemen, and the king sent them after the army of the Syrians, saying, “Go and see.”  
2K0715 So they went after them as far as the Jordan, and behold, all the way was littered with garments and equipment that the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.  
2K0716 Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.  
2K0717 Now the king had appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have charge of the gate. And the people trampled him in the gate, so that he died, as the man of God had said when the king came down to him.  
2K0718 For when the man of God had said to the king, “Two seahs of barley shall be sold for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, about this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria,”  
2K0719 the captain had answered the man of God, “If the LORD himself should make windows in heaven, could such a thing be?” And he had said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat of it.”  
2K0720 And so it happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gate and he died.  
2K0801 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years.”  
2K0802 So the woman arose and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.  
2K0803 And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land.  
2K0804 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”  
2K0805 And while he was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life.”  
2K0806 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, “Restore all that was hers, together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now.”  
2K0807 Now Elisha came to Damascus. Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick. And when it was told him, “The man of God has come here,”  
2K0808 the king said to Hazael, “Take a present with you and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’”  
2K0809 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camels’ loads. When he came and stood before him, he said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’”  
2K0810 And Elisha said to him, “Go, say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover,’ but the LORD has shown me that he shall certainly die.”  
2K0811 And he fixed his gaze and stared at him, until he was embarrassed. And the man of God wept.  
2K0812 And Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.”  
2K0813 And Hazael said, “What is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “The LORD has shown me that you are to be king over Syria.”  
2K0814 Then he departed from Elisha and came to his master, who said to him, “What did Elisha say to you?” And he answered, “He told me that you would certainly recover.”  
2K0815 But the next day he took the bed cloth and dipped it in water and spread it over his face, till he died. And Hazael became king in his place.  
2K0816 In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, when Jehoshaphat was king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, began to reign.  
2K0817 He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.  
2K0818 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.  
2K0819 Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, since he promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.  
2K0820 In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah and set up a king of their own.  
2K0821 Then Joram passed over to Zair with all his chariots and rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders struck the Edomites who had surrounded him, but his army fled home.  
2K0822 So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.  
2K0823 Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?  
2K0824 So Joram slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.  
2K0825 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, began to reign.  
2K0826 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah; she was a granddaughter of Omri king of Israel.  
2K0827 He also walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done, for he was son-in-law to the house of Ahab.  
2K0828 He went with Joram the son of Ahab to make war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead, and the Syrians wounded Joram.  
2K0829 And King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.  
2K0901 Then Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets and said to him, “Tie up your garments, and take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.  
2K0902 And when you arrive, look there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi. And go in and have him rise from among his fellows, and lead him to an inner chamber.  
2K0903 Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, ‘Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and flee; do not linger.”  
2K0904 So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.  
2K0905 And when he came, behold, the commanders of the army were in council. And he said, “I have a word for you, O commander.” And Jehu said, “To which of us all?” And he said, “To you, O commander.”  
2K0906 So he arose and went into the house. And the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, I anoint you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel.  
2K0907 And you shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, so that I may avenge on Jezebel the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD.  
2K0908 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel.  
2K0909 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.  
2K0910 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.” Then he opened the door and fled.  
2K0911 When Jehu came out to the servants of his master, they said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” And he said to them, “You know the fellow and his talk.”  
2K0912 And they said, “That is not true; tell us now.” And he said, “Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.’”  
2K0913 Then in haste every man of them took his garment and put it under him on the bare steps, and they blew the trumpet and proclaimed, “Jehu is king.”  
2K0914 Thus Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram with all Israel had been on guard at Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Syria,  
2K0915 but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) So Jehu said, “If this is your decision, then let no one slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.”  
2K0916 Then Jehu mounted his chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to visit Joram.  
2K0917 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came and said, “I see a company.” And Joram said, “Take a horseman and send to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is it peace?’”  
2K0918 So a man on horseback went to meet him and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu said, “What do you have to do with peace? Turn around and ride behind me.” And the watchman reported, saying, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.”  
2K0919 Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, “Thus the king has said, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu answered, “What do you have to do with peace? Turn around and ride behind me.”  
2K0920 Again the watchman reported, “He reached them, but he is not coming back. And the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously.”  
2K0921 Joram said, “Make ready.” And they made ready his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his chariot, and went to meet Jehu, and met him at the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.  
2K0922 And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as the whorings and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?”  
2K0923 Then Joram reined about and fled, saying to Ahaziah, “Treachery, O Ahaziah!”  
2K0924 And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and shot Joram between the shoulders, so that the arrow pierced his heart, and he sank in his chariot.  
2K0925 Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, “Take him up and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the LORD made this pronouncement against him:  
2K0926 ‘As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—declares the LORD—I will repay you on this plot of ground.’ Now therefore take him up and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the LORD.”  
2K0927 When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled in the direction of Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him and said, “Shoot him also.” And they shot him in the chariot at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo and died there.  
2K0928 His servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the city of David.  
2K0929 In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.  
2K0930 When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window.  
2K0931 And as Jehu entered the gate, she said, “Is it peace, you Zimri, murderer of your master?”  
2K0932 And he lifted up his face to the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked out at him.  
2K0933 He said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down. And some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled on her.  
2K0934 Then he went in and ate and drank. And he said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.”  
2K0935 But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.  
2K0936 When they came back and told him, he said, “This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite: ‘In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel,  
2K0937 and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.’”  
2K1001 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of the city, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying,  
2K1002 “Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master’s sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons,  
2K1003 select the best and fittest of your master’s sons and set him on his father’s throne and fight for your master’s house.”  
2K1004 But they were exceedingly afraid and said, “Behold, the two kings could not stand before him. How then can we stand?”  
2K1005 So he who was over the palace, and he who was over the city, together with the elders and the guardians, sent to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, and we will do all that you tell us. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your eyes.”  
2K1006 Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, “If you are on my side, and if you are ready to obey me, take the heads of your master’s sons and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow at this time.” Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were bringing them up.  
2K1007 And as soon as the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.  
2K1008 When the messenger came and told him, “They have brought the heads of the king’s sons,” he said, “Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.”  
2K1009 Then in the morning, when he went out, he stood and said to all the people, “You are innocent. It was I who conspired against my master and killed him, but who struck down all these?  
2K1010 Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the LORD has done what he said by his servant Elijah.”  
2K1011 So Jehu struck down all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all his great men and his close friends and his priests, until he left him none remaining.  
2K1012 Then he set out and went to Samaria. On the way, when he was at Beth-eked of the Shepherds,  
2K1013 Jehu met the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah, and he said, “Who are you?” And they answered, “We are the relatives of Ahaziah, and we came down to visit the royal princes and the sons of the queen mother.”  
2K1014 He said, “Take them alive.” And they took them alive and slaughtered them at the pit of Beth-eked, forty-two persons, and he spared none of them.  
2K1015 And when he departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. And he greeted him and said to him, “Is your heart true to my heart as mine is to yours?” And Jehonadab answered, “It is.” Jehu said, “If it is, give me your hand.” So he gave him his hand. And Jehu took him up with him into the chariot.  
2K1016 And he said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD.” So he had him ride in his chariot.  
2K1017 And when he came to Samaria, he struck down all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had wiped them out, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke to Elijah.  
2K1018 Then Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him much.  
2K1019 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshipers and all his priests. Let none be missing, for I have a great sacrifice to offer to Baal. Whoever is missing shall not live.” But Jehu did it with cunning in order to destroy the worshipers of Baal.  
2K1020 And Jehu ordered, “Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal.” So they proclaimed it.  
2K1021 And Jehu sent throughout all Israel, and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And they entered the house of Baal, and the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other.  
2K1022 He said to him who was in charge of the wardrobe, “Bring out the vestments for all the worshipers of Baal.” So he brought out the vestments for them.  
2K1023 Then Jehu went into the house of Baal with Jehonadab the son of Rechab, and he said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search, and see that there is no servant of the LORD here among you, but only the worshipers of Baal.”  
2K1024 Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and said, “The man who allows any of those whom I give into your hands to escape shall forfeit his life.”  
2K1025 So as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guard and to the officers, “Go in and strike them down; let not a man escape.” So when they put them to the sword, the guard and the officers cast them out and went into the inner room of the house of Baal,  
2K1026 and they brought out the pillar that was in the house of Baal and burned it.  
2K1027 And they demolished the pillar of Baal, and demolished the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day.  
2K1028 Thus Jehu wiped out Baal from Israel.  
2K1029 But Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin—that is, the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan.  
2K1030 And the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.”  
2K1031 But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin.  
2K1032 In those days the LORD began to cut off parts of Israel. Hazael defeated them throughout the territory of Israel:  
2K1033 from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the Valley of the Arnon, that is, Gilead and Bashan.  
2K1034 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?  
2K1035 So Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.  
2K1036 The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.  
2K1101 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family.  
2K1102 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus they hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not put to death.  
2K1103 And he remained with her six years, hidden in the house of the LORD, while Athaliah reigned over the land.  
2K1104 But in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and brought the captains of the Carites and of the guards, and had them come to him in the house of the LORD. And he made a covenant with them and put them under oath in the house of the LORD, and he showed them the king’s son.  
2K1105 And he commanded them, “This is the thing that you shall do: one third of you, those who come off duty on the Sabbath and guard the king’s house  
2K1106 (another third being at the gate Sur and a third at the gate behind the guards) shall guard the palace.  
2K1107 And the two divisions of you, which come on duty in force on the Sabbath and guard the house of the LORD on behalf of the king,  
2K1108 shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever approaches the ranks is to be put to death. Be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in.”  
2K1109 The captains did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and they each brought his men who were to go off duty on the Sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.  
2K1110 And the priest gave to the captains the spears and shields that had been King David’s, which were in the house of the LORD.  
2K1111 And the guards stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house on behalf of the king.  
2K1112 Then he brought out the king’s son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, “Long live the king!”  
2K1113 When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she went into the house of the LORD to the people.  
2K1114 And when she looked, there was the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets. And Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, “Treason! Treason!”  
2K1115 Then Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains who were set over the army, “Bring her out between the ranks, and put to death with the sword anyone who follows her.” For the priest said, “Let her not be put to death in the house of the LORD.”  
2K1116 So they laid hands on her; and she went through the horses’ entrance to the king’s house, and there she was put to death.  
2K1117 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and people, that they should be the LORD’s people, and also between the king and the people.  
2K1118 Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest posted watchmen over the house of the LORD.  
2K1119 And he took the captains, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD, marching through the gate of the guards to the king’s house. And he took his seat on the throne of the kings.  
2K1120 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been put to death with the sword at the king’s house.  
2K1121 Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.  
2K1201 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.  
2K1202 And Jehoash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him.  
2K1203 Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.  
2K1204 Jehoash said to the priests, “All the money of the holy things that is brought into the house of the LORD, the money for which each man is assessed—the money from the assessment of persons—and the money that a man’s heart prompts him to bring into the house of the LORD,  
2K1205 let the priests take, each from his donor, and let them repair the house wherever any need of repairs is discovered.”  
2K1206 But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had made no repairs on the house.  
2K1207 Therefore King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the other priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore take no more money from your donors, but hand it over for the repair of the house.”  
2K1208 So the priests agreed that they should take no more money from the people, and that they should not repair the house.  
2K1209 Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in the lid of it and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the LORD. And the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.  
2K1210 And whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s secretary and the high priest came up and they bagged and counted the money that was found in the house of the LORD.  
2K1211 Then they would give the money that was weighed out into the hands of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of the LORD. And they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the LORD,  
2K1212 and to the masons and the stonecutters, as well as to buy timber and quarried stone for making repairs on the house of the LORD, and for any outlay for the repairs of the house.  
2K1213 But there were not made for the house of the LORD basins of silver, snuffers, bowls, trumpets, or any vessels of gold, or of silver, from the money that was brought into the house of the LORD,  
2K1214 for that was given to the workmen who were repairing the house of the LORD with it.  
2K1215 And they did not ask for an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.  
2K1216 The money from the guilt offerings and the money from the sin offerings was not brought into the house of the LORD; it belonged to the priests.  
2K1217 At that time Hazael king of Syria went up and fought against Gath and took it. But when Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem,  
2K1218 Jehoash king of Judah took all the sacred gifts that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own sacred gifts, and all the gold that was found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the king’s house, and sent these to Hazael king of Syria. Then Hazael went away from Jerusalem.  
2K1219 Now the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?  
2K1220 His servants arose and made a conspiracy and struck down Joash in the house of Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.  
2K1221 It was Jozacar the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, who struck him down, so that he died. And they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Amaziah his son reigned in his place.  
2K1301 In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned seventeen years.  
2K1302 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin; he did not depart from them.  
2K1303 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them continually into the hand of Hazael king of Syria and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael.  
2K1304 Then Jehoahaz sought the favor of the LORD, and the LORD listened to him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Syria oppressed them.  
2K1305 (Therefore the LORD gave Israel a savior, so that they escaped from the hand of the Syrians, and the people of Israel lived in their homes as formerly.  
2K1306 Nevertheless, they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained in Samaria.)  
2K1307 For there was not left to Jehoahaz an army of more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.  
2K1308 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?  
2K1309 So Jehoahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria, and Joash his son reigned in his place.  
2K1310 In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned sixteen years.  
2K1311 He also did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin, but he walked in them.  
2K1312 Now the rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, and the might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?  
2K1313 So Joash slept with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat on his throne. And Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.  
2K1314 Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”  
2K1315 And Elisha said to him, “Take a bow and arrows.” So he took a bow and arrows.  
2K1316 Then he said to the king of Israel, “Draw the bow,” and he drew it. And Elisha laid his hands on the king’s hands.  
2K1317 And he said, “Open the window eastward,” and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot,” and he shot. And he said, “The LORD’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Syria! For you shall fight the Syrians in Aphek until you have made an end of them.”  
2K1318 And he said, “Take the arrows,” and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground with them.” And he struck three times and stopped.  
2K1319 Then the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck down Syria until you had made an end of it, but now you will strike down Syria only three times.”  
2K1320 So Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moabites used to invade the land in the spring of the year.  
2K1321 And as a man was being buried, behold, a marauding band was seen and the man was thrown into the grave of Elisha, and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood on his feet.  
2K1322 Now Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.  
2K1323 But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now.  
2K1324 When Hazael king of Syria died, Ben-hadad his son became king in his place.  
2K1325 Then Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again from Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities that he had taken from Jehoahaz his father in war. Three times Joash defeated him and recovered the cities of Israel.  
2K1401 In the second year of Joash the son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, began to reign.  
2K1402 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.  
2K1403 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not like David his father. He did in all things as Joash his father had done.  
2K1404 But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.  
2K1405 And as soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand, he struck down his servants who had struck down the king his father.  
2K1406 But he did not put to death the children of the murderers, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, where the LORD commanded, “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. But each one shall die for his own sin.”  
2K1407 He struck down ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt and took Sela by storm, and called it Joktheel, which is its name to this day.  
2K1408 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”  
2K1409 And Jehoash king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.  
2K1410 You have indeed struck down Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home, for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”  
2K1411 But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.  
2K1412 And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his home.  
2K1413 And Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for four hundred cubits, from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate.  
2K1414 And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s house, also hostages, and he returned to Samaria.  
2K1415 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash that he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?  
2K1416 And Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel, and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place.  
2K1417 Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.  
2K1418 Now the rest of the deeds of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?  
2K1419 And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.  
2K1420 And they brought him on horses; and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.  
2K1421 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.  
2K1422 He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.  
2K1423 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years.  
2K1424 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.  
2K1425 He restored the border of Israel from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath-hepher.  
2K1426 For the LORD saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter, for there was none left, bond or free, and there was none to help Israel.  
2K1427 But the LORD had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.  
2K1428 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he restored Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?  
2K1429 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, the kings of Israel, and Zechariah his son reigned in his place.  
2K1501 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign.  
2K1502 He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.  
2K1503 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.  
2K1504 Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.  
2K1505 And the LORD touched the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the household, governing the people of the land.  
2K1506 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?  
2K1507 And Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Jotham his son reigned in his place.  
2K1508 In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria six months.  
2K1509 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.  
2K1510 Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and struck him down at Ibleam and put him to death and reigned in his place.  
2K1511 Now the rest of the deeds of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.  
2K1512 (This was the promise of the LORD that he gave to Jehu, “Your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.” And so it came to pass.)  
2K1513 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned one month in Samaria.  
2K1514 Then Menahem the son of Gadi came up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and he struck down Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria and put him to death and reigned in his place.  
2K1515 Now the rest of the deeds of Shallum, and the conspiracy that he made, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.  
2K1516 At that time Menahem sacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on, because they did not open it to him. Therefore he sacked it, and he ripped open all the women in it who were pregnant.  
2K1517 In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel, and he reigned ten years in Samaria.  
2K1518 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart all his days from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.  
2K1519 Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that he might help him to confirm his hold on the royal power.  
2K1520 Menahem exacted the money from Israel, that is, from all the wealthy men, fifty shekels of silver from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back and did not stay there in the land.  
2K1521 Now the rest of the deeds of Menahem and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?  
2K1522 And Menahem slept with his fathers, and Pekahiah his son reigned in his place.  
2K1523 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned two years.  
2K1524 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.  
2K1525 And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him with fifty men of the people of Gilead, and struck him down in Samaria, in the citadel of the king’s house with Argob and Arieh; he put him to death and reigned in his place.  
2K1526 Now the rest of the deeds of Pekahiah and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.  
2K1527 In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and he reigned twenty years.  
2K1528 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.  
2K1529 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried the people captive to Assyria.  
2K1530 Then Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah and struck him down and put him to death and reigned in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.  
2K1531 Now the rest of the acts of Pekah and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.  
2K1532 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign.  
2K1533 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.  
2K1534 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah had done.  
2K1535 Nevertheless, the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD.  
2K1536 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?  
2K1537 In those days the LORD began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.  
2K1538 Jotham slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.  
2K1601 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign.  
2K1602 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God, as his father David had done,  
2K1603 but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.  
2K1604 And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.  
2K1605 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz but could not conquer him.  
2K1606 At that time Rezin the king of Syria recovered Elath for Syria and drove the men of Judah from Elath, and the Edomites came to Elath, where they dwell to this day.  
2K1607 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are attacking me.”  
2K1608 Ahaz also took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasures of the king’s house and sent a present to the king of Assyria.  
2K1609 And the king of Assyria listened to him. The king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir, and he killed Rezin.  
2K1610 When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details.  
2K1611 And Uriah the priest built the altar; in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uriah the priest made it, before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus.  
2K1612 And when the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. Then the king drew near to the altar and went up on it  
2K1613 and burned his burnt offering and his grain offering and poured his drink offering and threw the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.  
2K1614 And the bronze altar that was before the LORD he removed from the front of the house, from the place between his altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of his altar.  
2K1615 And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering and the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. And throw on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice, but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.”  
2K1616 Uriah the priest did all this, as King Ahaz commanded.  
2K1617 And King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands and removed the basin from them, and he took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone pedestal.  
2K1618 And the covered way for the Sabbath that had been built inside the house and the outer entrance for the king he caused to go around the house of the LORD, because of the king of Assyria.  
2K1619 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?  
2K1620 And Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.  
2K1701 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign in Samaria over Israel, and he reigned nine years.  
2K1702 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, yet not as the kings of Israel who were before him.  
2K1703 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria. And Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.  
2K1704 But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.  
2K1705 Then the king of Assyria invaded all the land and came to Samaria, and for three years he besieged it.  
2K1706 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.  
2K1707 And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods  
2K1708 and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced.  
2K1709 And the people of Israel did secretly against the LORD their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.  
2K1710 They set up for themselves pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,  
2K1711 and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger,  
2K1712 and they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, “You shall not do this.”  
2K1713 Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”  
2K1714 But they would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the LORD their God.  
2K1715 They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them.  
2K1716 And they abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.  
2K1717 And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.  
2K1718 Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only.  
2K1719 Judah also did not keep the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced.  
2K1720 And the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.  
2K1721 When he had torn Israel from the house of David, they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the LORD and made them commit great sin.  
2K1722 The people of Israel walked in all the sins that Jeroboam did. They did not depart from them,  
2K1723 until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.  
2K1724 And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the people of Israel. And they took possession of Samaria and lived in its cities.  
2K1725 And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the LORD. Therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which killed some of them.  
2K1726 So the king of Assyria was told, “The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know the law of the god of the land.”  
2K1727 Then the king of Assyria commanded, “Send there one of the priests whom you carried away from there, and let him go and dwell there and teach them the law of the god of the land.”  
2K1728 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel and taught them how they should fear the LORD.  
2K1729 But every nation still made gods of its own and put them in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived.  
2K1730 The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima,  
2K1731 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.  
2K1732 They also feared the LORD and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.  
2K1733 So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.  
2K1734 To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the LORD, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel.  
2K1735 The LORD made a covenant with them and commanded them, “You shall not fear other gods or bow yourselves to them or serve them or sacrifice to them,  
2K1736 but you shall fear the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm. You shall bow yourselves to him, and to him you shall sacrifice.  
2K1737 And the statutes and the rules and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, you shall always be careful to do. You shall not fear other gods,  
2K1738 and you shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods,  
2K1739 but you shall fear the LORD your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.”  
2K1740 However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.  
2K1741 So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children’s children—as their fathers did, so they do to this day.  
2K1801 In the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign.  
2K1802 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.  
2K1803 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.  
2K1804 He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).  
2K1805 He trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel, so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him.  
2K1806 For he held fast to the LORD. He did not depart from following him, but kept the commandments that the LORD commanded Moses.  
2K1807 And the LORD was with him; wherever he went out, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and would not serve him.  
2K1808 He struck down the Philistines as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.  
2K1809 In the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria and besieged it,  
2K1810 and at the end of three years he took it. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.  
2K1811 The king of Assyria carried the Israelites away to Assyria and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,  
2K1812 because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded. They neither listened nor obeyed.  
2K1813 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.  
2K1814 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me. Whatever you impose on me I will bear.” And the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.  
2K1815 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s house.  
2K1816 At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD and from the doorposts that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.  
2K1817 And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer’s Field.  
2K1818 And when they called for the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.  
2K1819 And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours?  
2K1820 Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me?  
2K1821 Behold, you are trusting now in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.  
2K1822 But if you say to me, “We trust in the LORD our God,” is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, “You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?  
2K1823 Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.  
2K1824 How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master’s servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?  
2K1825 Moreover, is it without the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, “Go up against this land and destroy it.”’”  
2K1826 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”  
2K1827 But the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?”  
2K1828 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!  
2K1829 Thus says the king: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you out of my hand.  
2K1830 Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD by saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’  
2K1831 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make your peace with me and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern,  
2K1832 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live, and not die. And do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, “The LORD will deliver us.”  
2K1833 Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?  
2K1834 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?  
2K1835 Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”  
2K1836 But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s command was, “Do not answer him.”  
2K1837 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.  
2K1901 As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD.  
2K1902 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.  
2K1903 They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.  
2K1904 It may be that the LORD your God heard all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.”  
2K1905 When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah,  
2K1906 Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master, ‘Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.  
2K1907 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.’”  
2K1908 The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he heard that the king had left Lachish.  
2K1909 Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, “Behold, he has set out to fight against you.” So he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,  
2K1910 “Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.  
2K1911 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered?  
2K1912 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?  
2K1913 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?’”  
2K1914 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD and spread it before the LORD.  
2K1915 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD and said: “O LORD, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.  
2K1916 Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.  
2K1917 Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands  
2K1918 and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.  
2K1919 So now, O LORD our God, save us, please, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O LORD, are God alone.”  
2K1920 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.  
2K1921 This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: “She despises you, she scorns you— the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you— the daughter of Jerusalem.  
2K1922 “Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!  
2K1923 By your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest lodging place, its most fruitful forest.  
2K1924 I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.’  
2K1925 “Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins,  
2K1926 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.  
2K1927 “But I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.  
2K1928 Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.  
2K1929 “And this shall be the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. Then in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.  
2K1930 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.  
2K1931 For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD will do this.  
2K1932 “Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.  
2K1933 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the LORD.  
2K1934 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”  
2K1935 And that night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.  
2K1936 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home and lived at Nineveh.  
2K1937 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.  
2K2001 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die; you shall not recover.’”  
2K2002 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying,  
2K2003 “Now, O LORD, please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.  
2K2004 And before Isaiah had gone out of the middle court, the word of the LORD came to him:  
2K2005 “Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the leader of my people, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD,  
2K2006 and I will add fifteen years to your life. I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake.”  
2K2007 And Isaiah said, “Bring a cake of figs. And let them take and lay it on the boil, that he may recover.”  
2K2008 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”  
2K2009 And Isaiah said, “This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he has promised: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?”  
2K2010 And Hezekiah answered, “It is an easy thing for the shadow to lengthen ten steps. Rather let the shadow go back ten steps.”  
2K2011 And Isaiah the prophet called to the LORD, and he brought the shadow back ten steps, by which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz.  
2K2012 At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been sick.  
2K2013 And Hezekiah welcomed them, and he showed them all his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.  
2K2014 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? And from where did they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, from Babylon.”  
2K2015 He said, “What have they seen in your house?” And Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house; there is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.”  
2K2016 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD:  
2K2017 Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the LORD.  
2K2018 And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”  
2K2019 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?”  
2K2020 The rest of the deeds of Hezekiah and all his might and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?  
2K2021 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son reigned in his place.  
2K2101 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.  
2K2102 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.  
2K2103 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.  
2K2104 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem will I put my name.”  
2K2105 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.  
2K2106 And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.  
2K2107 And the carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.  
2K2108 And I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander anymore out of the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the Law that my servant Moses commanded them.”  
2K2109 But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations had done whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.  
2K2110 And the LORD said by his servants the prophets,  
2K2111 “Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols,  
2K2112 therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such disaster that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.  
2K2113 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.  
2K2114 And I will forsake the remnant of my heritage and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies,  
2K2115 because they have done what is evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.”  
2K2116 Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.  
2K2117 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?  
2K2118 And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son reigned in his place.  
2K2119 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.  
2K2120 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done.  
2K2121 He walked in all the way in which his father walked and served the idols that his father served and worshiped them.  
2K2122 He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.  
2K2123 And the servants of Amon conspired against him and put the king to death in his house.  
2K2124 But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.  
2K2125 Now the rest of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?  
2K2126 And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.  
2K2201 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.  
2K2202 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the way of David his father, and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.  
2K2203 In the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, the secretary, to the house of the LORD, saying,  
2K2204 “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people.  
2K2205 And let it be given into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD, and let them give it to the workmen who are at the house of the LORD, repairing the house  
2K2206 (that is, to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons), and let them use it for buying timber and quarried stone to repair the house.  
2K2207 But no accounting shall be asked from them for the money that is delivered into their hand, for they deal honestly.”  
2K2208 And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD.” And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.  
2K2209 And Shaphan the secretary came to the king, and reported to the king, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD.”  
2K2210 Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it before the king.  
2K2211 When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes.  
2K2212 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,  
2K2213 “Go, inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.”  
2K2214 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter), and they talked with her.  
2K2215 And she said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,  
2K2216 Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read.  
2K2217 Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.  
2K2218 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard,  
2K2219 because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the LORD.  
2K2220 Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place.’” And they brought back word to the king.  
2K2301 Then the king sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him.  
2K2302 And the king went up to the house of the LORD, and with him all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the prophets, all the people, both small and great. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.  
2K2303 And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people joined in the covenant.  
2K2304 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.  
2K2305 And he deposed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and the moon and the constellations and all the host of the heavens.  
2K2306 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.  
2K2307 And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes who were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.  
2K2308 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had made offerings, from Geba to Beersheba. And he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one’s left at the gate of the city.  
2K2309 However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.  
2K2310 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to Molech.  
2K2311 And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts. And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.  
2K2312 And the altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, he pulled down and broke in pieces and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.  
2K2313 And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.  
2K2314 And he broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.  
2K2315 Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned, reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah.  
2K2316 And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.  
2K2317 Then he said, “What is that monument that I see?” And the men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted these things that you have done against the altar at Bethel.”  
2K2318 And he said, “Let him be; let no man move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.  
2K2319 And Josiah removed all the shrines also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which kings of Israel had made, provoking the LORD to anger. He did to them according to all that he had done at Bethel.  
2K2320 And he sacrificed all the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.  
2K2321 And the king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”  
2K2322 For no such Passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or during all the days of the kings of Israel or of the kings of Judah.  
2K2323 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.  
2K2324 Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.  
2K2325 Before him there was no king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses, nor did any like him arise after him.  
2K2326 Still the LORD did not turn from the burning of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.  
2K2327 And the LORD said, “I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city that I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.”  
2K2328 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?  
2K2329 In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at Megiddo, as soon as he saw him.  
2K2330 And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s place.  
2K2331 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.  
2K2332 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.  
2K2333 And Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.  
2K2334 And Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away, and he came to Egypt and died there.  
2K2335 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.  
2K2336 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.  
2K2337 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.  
2K2401 In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.  
2K2402 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldeans and bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD that he spoke by his servants the prophets.  
2K2403 Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the LORD, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,  
2K2404 and also for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD would not pardon.  
2K2405 Now the rest of the deeds of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?  
2K2406 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.  
2K2407 And the king of Egypt did not come again out of his land, for the king of Babylon had taken all that belonged to the king of Egypt from the Brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates.  
2K2408 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.  
2K2409 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.  
2K2410 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.  
2K2411 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,  
2K2412 and Jehoiachin the king of Judah gave himself up to the king of Babylon, himself and his mother and his servants and his officials and his palace officials. The king of Babylon took him prisoner in the eighth year of his reign  
2K2413 and carried off all the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold in the temple of the LORD, which Solomon king of Israel had made, as the LORD had foretold.  
2K2414 He carried away all Jerusalem and all the officials and all the mighty men of valor, 10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. None remained, except the poorest people of the land.  
2K2415 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon. The king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the chief men of the land he took into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.  
2K2416 And the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon all the men of valor, 7,000, and the craftsmen and the metal workers, 1,000, all of them strong and fit for war.  
2K2417 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.  
2K2418 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.  
2K2419 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.  
2K2420 For because of the anger of the LORD it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.  
2K2501 And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it.  
2K2502 So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.  
2K2503 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.  
2K2504 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.  
2K2505 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.  
2K2506 Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.  
2K2507 They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.  
2K2508 In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.  
2K2509 And he burned the house of the LORD and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.  
2K2510 And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.  
2K2511 And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile.  
2K2512 But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.  
2K2513 And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon.  
2K2514 And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service,  
2K2515 the fire pans also and the bowls. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver.  
2K2516 As for the two pillars, the one sea, and the stands that Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight.  
2K2517 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and on it was a capital of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits. A latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were all around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with the latticework.  
2K2518 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold;  
2K2519 and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and five men of the king’s council who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city.  
2K2520 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.  
2K2521 And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.  
2K2522 And over the people who remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, governor.  
2K2523 Now when all the captains and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah governor, they came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite.  
2K2524 And Gedaliah swore to them and their men, saying, “Do not be afraid because of the Chaldean officials. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.”  
2K2525 But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down Gedaliah and put him to death along with the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.  
2K2526 Then all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces arose and went to Egypt, for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.  
2K2527 And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison.  
2K2528 And he spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.  
2K2529 So Jehoiachin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king’s table,  
2K2530 and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, according to his daily needs, as long as he lived.  
1X0101 Adam, Seth, Enosh;  
1X0102 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared;  
1X0103 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech;  
1X0104 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.  
1X0105 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.  
1X0106 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.  
1X0107 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.  
1X0108 The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.  
1X0109 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.  
1X0110 Cush fathered Nimrod. He was the first on earth to be a mighty man.  
1X0111 Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,  
1X0112 Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorim.  
1X0113 Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,  
1X0114 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,  
1X0115 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,  
1X0116 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites.  
1X0117 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. And the sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.  
1X0118 Arpachshad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber.  
1X0119 To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg (for in his days the earth was divided), and his brother’s name was Joktan.  
1X0120 Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,  
1X0121 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,  
1X0122 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,  
1X0123 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.  
1X0124 Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah;  
1X0125 Eber, Peleg, Reu;  
1X0126 Serug, Nahor, Terah;  
1X0127 Abram, that is, Abraham.  
1X0128 The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.  
1X0129 These are their genealogies: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,  
1X0130 Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,  
1X0131 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.  
1X0132 The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.  
1X0133 The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the descendants of Keturah.  
1X0134 Abraham fathered Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.  
1X0135 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.  
1X0136 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, Kenaz, and of Timna, Amalek.  
1X0137 The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.  
1X0138 The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.  
1X0139 The sons of Lotan: Hori and Hemam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna.  
1X0140 The sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.  
1X0141 The son of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.  
1X0142 The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.  
1X0143 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the people of Israel: Bela the son of Beor, the name of his city being Dinhabah.  
1X0144 Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his place.  
1X0145 Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.  
1X0146 Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place, the name of his city being Avith.  
1X0147 Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.  
1X0148 Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his place.  
1X0149 Shaul died, and Baal-hanan, the son of Achbor, reigned in his place.  
1X0150 Baal-hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his place, the name of his city being Pai; and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.  
1X0151 And Hadad died. The chiefs of Edom were: chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,  
1X0152 Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon,  
1X0153 Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar,  
1X0154 Magdiel, and Iram; these are the chiefs of Edom.  
1X0201 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,  
1X0202 Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.  
1X0203 The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite bore to him. Now Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the LORD, and he put him to death.  
1X0204 His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all.  
1X0205 The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.  
1X0206 The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all.  
1X0207 The son of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who broke faith in the matter of the devoted thing;  
1X0208 and Ethan’s son was Azariah.  
1X0209 The sons of Hezron that were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Chelubai.  
1X0210 Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah.  
1X0211 Nahshon fathered Salmon, Salmon fathered Boaz,  
1X0212 Boaz fathered Obed, Obed fathered Jesse.  
1X0213 Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third,  
1X0214   Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,   
1X0215 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh.  
1X0216 And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.  
1X0217 Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.  
1X0218 Caleb the son of Hezron fathered children by his wife Azubah, and by Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.  
1X0219 When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur.  
1X0220 Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered Bezalel.  
1X0221 Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old, and she bore him Segub.  
1X0222 And Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.  
1X0223 But Geshur and Aram took from them Havvoth-jair, Kenath, and its villages, sixty towns. All these were descendants of Machir, the father of Gilead.  
1X0224 After the death of Hezron, Caleb went in to Ephrathah, the wife of Hezron his father, and she bore him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.  
1X0225 The sons of Jerahmeel, the firstborn of Hezron: Ram, his firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.  
1X0226 Jerahmeel also had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.  
1X0227 The sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel: Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.  
1X0228 The sons of Onam: Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.  
1X0229 The name of Abishur’s wife was Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid.  
1X0230 The sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; and Seled died childless.  
1X0231 The son of Appaim: Ishi. The son of Ishi: Sheshan. The son of Sheshan: Ahlai.  
1X0232 The sons of Jada, Shammai’s brother: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died childless.  
1X0233 The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the descendants of Jerahmeel.  
1X0234 Now Sheshan had no sons, only daughters, but Sheshan had an Egyptian slave whose name was Jarha.  
1X0235 So Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to Jarha his slave, and she bore him Attai.  
1X0236 Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered Zabad.  
1X0237 Zabad fathered Ephlal, and Ephlal fathered Obed.  
1X0238 Obed fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah.  
1X0239 Azariah fathered Helez, and Helez fathered Eleasah.  
1X0240 Eleasah fathered Sismai, and Sismai fathered Shallum.  
1X0241 Shallum fathered Jekamiah, and Jekamiah fathered Elishama.  
1X0242 The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel: Mareshah his firstborn, who fathered Ziph. The son of Mareshah: Hebron.  
1X0243 The sons of Hebron: Korah, Tappuah, Rekem and Shema.  
1X0244 Shema fathered Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem fathered Shammai.  
1X0245 The son of Shammai: Maon; and Maon fathered Beth-zur.  
1X0246 Ephah also, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran fathered Gazez.  
1X0247 The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.  
1X0248 Maacah, Caleb’s concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.  
1X0249 She also bore Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.  
1X0250 These were the descendants of Caleb. The sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim,  
1X0251 Salma, the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth-gader.  
1X0252 Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had other sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.  
1X0253 And the clans of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from these came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.  
1X0254 The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.  
1X0255 The clans also of the scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.  
1X0301 These are the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelite; the second, Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite,  
1X0302 the third, Absalom, whose mother was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith;  
1X0303 the fifth, Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth, Ithream, by his wife Eglah;  
1X0304 six were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned for seven years and six months. And he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.  
1X0305 These were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan and Solomon, four by Bath-shua, the daughter of Ammiel;  
1X0306 then Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet,  
1X0307 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,  
1X0308 Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.  
1X0309 All these were David’s sons, besides the sons of the concubines, and Tamar was their sister.  
1X0310 The son of Solomon was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,  
1X0311 Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,  
1X0312 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,  
1X0313 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,  
1X0314 Amon his son, Josiah his son.  
1X0315 The sons of Josiah: Johanan the firstborn, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.  
1X0316 The descendants of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son;  
1X0317 and the sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son,  
1X0318 Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah;  
1X0319 and the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei; and the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah, and Shelomith was their sister;  
1X0320 and Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab-hesed, five.  
1X0321 The sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah, his son Rephaiah, his son Arnan, his son Obadiah, his son Shecaniah.  
1X0322 The son of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. And the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six.  
1X0323 The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.  
1X0324 The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani, seven.  
1X0401 The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.  
1X0402 Reaiah the son of Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites.  
1X0403 These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi,  
1X0404 and Penuel fathered Gedor, and Ezer fathered Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.  
1X0405 Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah;  
1X0406 Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.  
1X0407 The sons of Helah: Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.  
1X0408 Koz fathered Anub, Zobebah, and the clans of Aharhel, the son of Harum.  
1X0409 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”  
1X0410 Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!” And God granted what he asked.  
1X0411 Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Mehir, who fathered Eshton.  
1X0412 Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.  
1X0413 The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai.  
1X0414 Meonothai fathered Ophrah; and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-harashim, so-called because they were craftsmen.  
1X0415 The sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the son of Elah: Kenaz.  
1X0416 The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.  
1X0417 The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. These are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married; and she conceived and bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.  
1X0418 And his Judahite wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.  
1X0419 The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.  
1X0420 The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.  
1X0421 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the clans of the house of linen workers at Beth-ashbea;  
1X0422 and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and returned to Lehem (now the records are ancient).  
1X0423 These were the potters who were inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there in the king’s service.  
1X0424 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;  
1X0425 Shallum was his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.  
1X0426 The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.  
1X0427 Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many children, nor did all their clan multiply like the men of Judah.  
1X0428 They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,  
1X0429 Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad,  
1X0430 Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag,  
1X0431 Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri, and Shaaraim. These were their cities until David reigned.  
1X0432 And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities,  
1X0433 along with all their villages that were around these cities as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record.  
1X0434 Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah,  
1X0435 Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel,  
1X0436 Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah,  
1X0437 Ziza the son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah—  
1X0438 these mentioned by name were princes in their clans, and their fathers’ houses increased greatly.  
1X0439 They journeyed to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks,  
1X0440 where they found rich, good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and peaceful, for the former inhabitants there belonged to Ham.  
1X0441 These, registered by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and destroyed their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and marked them for destruction to this day, and settled in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.  
1X0442 And some of them, five hundred men of the Simeonites, went to Mount Seir, having as their leaders Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.  
1X0443 And they defeated the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day.  
1X0501 The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he could not be enrolled as the oldest son;  
1X0502 though Judah became strong among his brothers and a chief came from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph),  
1X0503 the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.  
1X0504 The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,  
1X0505 Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,  
1X0506 Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria carried away into exile; he was a chief of the Reubenites.  
1X0507 And his kinsmen by their clans, when the genealogy of their generations was recorded: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,  
1X0508 and Bela the son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-meon.  
1X0509 He also lived to the east as far as the entrance of the desert this side of the Euphrates, because their livestock had multiplied in the land of Gilead.  
1X0510 And in the days of Saul they waged war against the Hagrites, who fell into their hand. And they lived in their tents throughout all the region east of Gilead.  
1X0511 The sons of Gad lived over against them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah:  
1X0512 Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan.  
1X0513 And their kinsmen according to their fathers’ houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia and Eber, seven.  
1X0514 These were the sons of Abihail the son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz.  
1X0515 Ahi the son of Abdiel, son of Guni, was chief in their fathers’ houses,  
1X0516 and they lived in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasturelands of Sharon to their limits.  
1X0517 All of these were recorded in genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.  
1X0518 The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had valiant men who carried shield and sword, and drew the bow, expert in war, 44,760, able to go to war.  
1X0519 They waged war against the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab.  
1X0520 And when they prevailed over them, the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hands, for they cried out to God in the battle, and he granted their urgent plea because they trusted in him.  
1X0521 They carried off their livestock: 50,000 of their camels, 250,000 sheep, 2,000 donkeys, and 100,000 men alive.  
1X0522 For many fell, because the war was of God. And they lived in their place until the exile.  
1X0523 The members of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land. They were very numerous from Bashan to Baal-hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon.  
1X0524 These were the heads of their fathers’ houses: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty warriors, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses.  
1X0525 But they broke faith with the God of their fathers, and whored after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them.  
1X0526 So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, the spirit of Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and he took them into exile, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river Gozan, to this day.  
1X0601 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.  
1X0602 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.  
1X0603 The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.  
1X0604 Eleazar fathered Phinehas, Phinehas fathered Abishua,  
1X0605 Abishua fathered Bukki, Bukki fathered Uzzi,  
1X0606 Uzzi fathered Zerahiah, Zerahiah fathered Meraioth,  
1X0607 Meraioth fathered Amariah, Amariah fathered Ahitub,  
1X0608 Ahitub fathered Zadok, Zadok fathered Ahimaaz,  
1X0609 Ahimaaz fathered Azariah, Azariah fathered Johanan,  
1X0610 and Johanan fathered Azariah (it was he who served as priest in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem).  
1X0611 Azariah fathered Amariah, Amariah fathered Ahitub,  
1X0612 Ahitub fathered Zadok, Zadok fathered Shallum,  
1X0613 Shallum fathered Hilkiah, Hilkiah fathered Azariah,  
1X0614 Azariah fathered Seraiah, Seraiah fathered Jehozadak;  
1X0615 and Jehozadak went into exile when the LORD sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.  
1X0616 The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.  
1X0617 And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.  
1X0618 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel.  
1X0619 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their fathers.  
1X0620 Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,  
1X0621 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son.  
1X0622 The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,  
1X0623 Elkanah his son, Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son,  
1X0624 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.  
1X0625 The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth,  
1X0626 Elkanah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son,  
1X0627 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.  
1X0628 The sons of Samuel: Joel his firstborn, the second Abijah.  
1X0629 The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,  
1X0630 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, and Asaiah his son.  
1X0631 These are the men whom David put in charge of the service of song in the house of the LORD after the ark rested there.  
1X0632 They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting until Solomon built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they performed their service according to their order.  
1X0633 These are the men who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer the son of Joel, son of Samuel,  
1X0634 son of Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Eliel, son of Toah,  
1X0635 son of Zuph, son of Elkanah, son of Mahath, son of Amasai,  
1X0636 son of Elkanah, son of Joel, son of Azariah, son of Zephaniah,  
1X0637 son of Tahath, son of Assir, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah,  
1X0638 son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel;  
1X0639 and his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, namely, Asaph the son of Berechiah, son of Shimea,  
1X0640 son of Michael, son of Baaseiah, son of Malchijah,  
1X0641 son of Ethni, son of Zerah, son of Adaiah,  
1X0642 son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shimei,  
1X0643 son of Jahath, son of Gershom, son of Levi.  
1X0644 On the left hand were their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch,  
1X0645 son of Hashabiah, son of Amaziah, son of Hilkiah,  
1X0646 son of Amzi, son of Bani, son of Shemer,  
1X0647 son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merari, son of Levi.  
1X0648 And their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.  
1X0649 But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense for all the work of the Most Holy Place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.  
1X0650 These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,  
1X0651 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,  
1X0652 Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,  
1X0653 Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.  
1X0654 These are their dwelling places according to their settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the clans of Kohathites, for theirs was the first lot,  
1X0655 to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands,  
1X0656 but the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.  
1X0657 To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands,  
1X0658 Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands,  
1X0659 Ashan with its pasturelands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands;  
1X0660 and from the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon, Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities throughout their clans were thirteen.  
1X0661 To the rest of the Kohathites were given by lot out of the clan of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.  
1X0662 To the Gershomites according to their clans were allotted thirteen cities out of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and Manasseh in Bashan.  
1X0663 To the Merarites according to their clans were allotted twelve cities out of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.  
1X0664 So the people of Israel gave the Levites the cities with their pasturelands.  
1X0665 They gave by lot out of the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin these cities that are mentioned by name.  
1X0666 And some of the clans of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim.  
1X0667 They were given the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,  
1X0668 Jokmeam with its pasturelands, Beth-horon with its pasturelands,  
1X0669 Aijalon with its pasturelands, Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands,  
1X0670 and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its pasturelands, and Bileam with its pasturelands, for the rest of the clans of the Kohathites.  
1X0671 To the Gershomites were given out of the clan of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands and Ashtaroth with its pasturelands;  
1X0672 and out of the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its pasturelands, Daberath with its pasturelands,  
1X0673 Ramoth with its pasturelands, and Anem with its pasturelands;  
1X0674 out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands,  
1X0675 Hukok with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands;  
1X0676 and out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, Hammon with its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim with its pasturelands.  
1X0677 To the rest of the Merarites were allotted out of the tribe of Zebulun: Rimmono with its pasturelands, Tabor with its pasturelands,  
1X0678 and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands,  
1X0679 Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands;  
1X0680 and out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, Mahanaim with its pasturelands,  
1X0681 Heshbon with its pasturelands, and Jazer with its pasturelands.  
1X0701 The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.  
1X0702 The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers’ houses, namely of Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David being 22,600.  
1X0703 The son of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, all five of them were chief men.  
1X0704 And along with them, by their generations, according to their fathers’ houses, were units of the army for war, 36,000, for they had many wives and sons.  
1X0705 Their kinsmen belonging to all the clans of Issachar were in all 87,000 mighty warriors, enrolled by genealogy.  
1X0706 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, and Jediael, three.  
1X0707 The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five, heads of fathers’ houses, mighty warriors. And their enrollment by genealogies was 22,034.  
1X0708 The sons of Becher: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.  
1X0709 And their enrollment by genealogies, according to their generations, as heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty warriors, was 20,200.  
1X0710 The son of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.  
1X0711 All these were the sons of Jediael according to the heads of their fathers’ houses, mighty warriors, 17,200, able to go to war.  
1X0712 And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, Hushim the son of Aher.  
1X0713 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer and Shallum, the descendants of Bilhah.  
1X0714 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.  
1X0715 And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim. The name of his sister was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters.  
1X0716 And Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.  
1X0717 The son of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manasseh.  
1X0718 And his sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.  
1X0719 The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.  
1X0720 The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son,  
1X0721 Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to raid their livestock.  
1X0722 And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.  
1X0723 And Ephraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and bore a son. And he called his name Beriah, because disaster had befallen his house.  
1X0724 His daughter was Sheerah, who built both Lower and Upper Beth-horon, and Uzzen- sheerah.  
1X0725 Rephah was his son, Resheph his son, Telah his son, Tahan his son,  
1X0726 Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,  
1X0727 Nun his son, Joshua his son.  
1X0728 Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and to the east Naaran, and to the west Gezer and its towns, Shechem and its towns, and Ayyah and its towns;  
1X0729 also in possession of the Manassites, Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.  
1X0730 The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah.  
1X0731 The sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who fathered Birzaith.  
1X0732 Heber fathered Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shua.  
1X0733 The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the sons of Japhlet.  
1X0734 The sons of Shemer his brother: Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.  
1X0735 The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal.  
1X0736 The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah.  
1X0737   Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.   
1X0738 The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.  
1X0739 The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia.  
1X0740 All of these were men of Asher, heads of fathers’ houses, approved, mighty warriors, chiefs of the princes. Their number enrolled by genealogies, for service in war, was 26,000 men.  
1X0801 Benjamin fathered Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third,  
1X0802 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.  
1X0803 And Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abihud,  
1X0804 Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah,  
1X0805 Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram.  
1X0806 These are the sons of Ehud (they were heads of fathers’ houses of the inhabitants of Geba, and they were carried into exile to Manahath):  
1X0807 Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera, that is, Heglam, who fathered Uzza and Ahihud.  
1X0808 And Shaharaim fathered sons in the country of Moab after he had sent away Hushim and Baara his wives.  
1X0809 He fathered sons by Hodesh his wife: Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam,  
1X0810 Jeuz, Sachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers’ houses.  
1X0811 He also fathered sons by Hushim: Abitub and Elpaal.  
1X0812 The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod with its towns,  
1X0813 and Beriah and Shema (they were heads of fathers’ houses of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who caused the inhabitants of Gath to flee);  
1X0814 and Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth.  
1X0815 Zebadiah, Arad, Eder,  
1X0816 Michael, Ishpah, and Joha were sons of Beriah.  
1X0817 Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber,  
1X0818 Ishmerai, Izliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal.  
1X0819 Jakim, Zichri, Zabdi,  
1X0820 Elienai, Zillethai, Eliel,  
1X0821 Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shimei.  
1X0822 Ishpan, Eber, Eliel,  
1X0823 Abdon, Zichri, Hanan,  
1X0824 Hananiah, Elam, Anthothijah,  
1X0825   Iphdeiah, and Penuel were the sons of Shashak.   
1X0826   Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah,   
1X0827 Jaareshiah, Elijah, and Zichri were the sons of Jeroham.  
1X0828 These were the heads of fathers’ houses, according to their generations, chief men. These lived in Jerusalem.  
1X0829 Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon, and the name of his wife was Maacah.  
1X0830 His firstborn son: Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab,  
1X0831 Gedor, Ahio, Zecher,  
1X0832 and Mikloth (he fathered Shimeah). Now these also lived opposite their kinsmen in Jerusalem, with their kinsmen.  
1X0833 Ner was the father of Kish, Kish of Saul, Saul of Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab and Eshbaal;  
1X0834 and the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal was the father of Micah.  
1X0835 The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.  
1X0836 Ahaz fathered Jehoaddah, and Jehoaddah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri fathered Moza.  
1X0837 Moza fathered Binea; Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.  
1X0838 Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.  
1X0839 The sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.  
1X0840 The sons of Ulam were men who were mighty warriors, bowmen, having many sons and grandsons, 150. All these were Benjaminites.  
1X0901 So all Israel was recorded in genealogies, and these are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was taken into exile in Babylon because of their breach of faith.  
1X0902 Now the first to dwell again in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants.  
1X0903 And some of the people of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh lived in Jerusalem:  
1X0904 Uthai the son of Ammihud, son of Omri, son of Imri, son of Bani, from the sons of Perez the son of Judah.  
1X0905 And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.  
1X0906 Of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their kinsmen, 690.  
1X0907 Of the Benjaminites: Sallu the son of Meshullam, son of Hodaviah, son of Hassenuah,  
1X0908 Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, Elah the son of Uzzi, son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, son of Reuel, son of Ibnijah;  
1X0909 and their kinsmen according to their generations, 956. All these were heads of fathers’ houses according to their fathers’ houses.  
1X0910 Of the priests: Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, Jachin,  
1X0911 and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, the chief officer of the house of God;  
1X0912 and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, son of Jahzerah, son of Meshullam, son of Meshillemith, son of Immer;  
1X0913 besides their kinsmen, heads of their fathers’ houses, 1,760, mighty men for the work of the service of the house of God.  
1X0914 Of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;  
1X0915 and Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal and Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zichri, son of Asaph;  
1X0916 and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.  
1X0917 The gatekeepers were Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their kinsmen (Shallum was the chief);  
1X0918 until then they were in the king’s gate on the east side as the gatekeepers of the camps of the Levites.  
1X0919 Shallum the son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his kinsmen of his fathers’ house, the Korahites, were in charge of the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent, as their fathers had been in charge of the camp of the LORD, keepers of the entrance.  
1X0920 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the chief officer over them in time past; the LORD was with him.  
1X0921 Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper at the entrance of the tent of meeting.  
1X0922 All these, who were chosen as gatekeepers at the thresholds, were 212. They were enrolled by genealogies in their villages. David and Samuel the seer established them in their office of trust.  
1X0923 So they and their sons were in charge of the gates of the house of the LORD, that is, the house of the tent, as guards.  
1X0924 The gatekeepers were on the four sides, east, west, north, and south.  
1X0925 And their kinsmen who were in their villages were obligated to come in every seven days, in turn, to be with these,  
1X0926 for the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted to be over the chambers and the treasures of the house of God.  
1X0927 And they lodged around the house of God, for on them lay the duty of watching, and they had charge of opening it every morning.  
1X0928 Some of them had charge of the utensils of service, for they were required to count them when they were brought in and taken out.  
1X0929 Others of them were appointed over the furniture and over all the holy utensils, also over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the incense, and the spices.  
1X0930 Others, of the sons of the priests, prepared the mixing of the spices,  
1X0931 and Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with making the flat cakes.  
1X0932 Also some of their kinsmen of the Kohathites had charge of the showbread, to prepare it every Sabbath.  
1X0933 Now these, the singers, the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites, were in the chambers of the temple free from other service, for they were on duty day and night.  
1X0934 These were heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites, according to their generations, leaders. These lived in Jerusalem.  
1X0935 In Gibeon lived the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, and the name of his wife was Maacah,  
1X0936 and his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,  
1X0937 Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth;  
1X0938 and Mikloth was the father of Shimeam; and these also lived opposite their kinsmen in Jerusalem, with their kinsmen.  
1X0939 Ner fathered Kish, Kish fathered Saul, Saul fathered Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal.  
1X0940 And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal, and Merib-baal fathered Micah.  
1X0941 The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz.  
1X0942 And Ahaz fathered Jarah, and Jarah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. And Zimri fathered Moza.  
1X0943 Moza fathered Binea, and Rephaiah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.  
1X0944 Azel had six sons and these are their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan; these were the sons of Azel.  
1X1001 Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.  
1X1002 And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines struck down Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.  
1X1003 The battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers found him, and he was wounded by the archers.  
1X1004 Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.  
1X1005 And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died.  
1X1006 Thus Saul died; he and his three sons and all his house died together.  
1X1007 And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the army had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled, and the Philistines came and lived in them.  
1X1008 The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.  
1X1009 And they stripped him and took his head and his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to carry the good news to their idols and to the people.  
1X1010 And they put his armor in the temple of their gods and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.  
1X1011 But when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,  
1X1012 all the valiant men arose and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.  
1X1013 So Saul died for his breach of faith. He broke faith with the LORD in that he did not keep the command of the LORD, and also consulted a medium, seeking guidance.  
1X1014 He did not seek guidance from the LORD. Therefore the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David the son of Jesse.  
1X1101 Then all Israel gathered together to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and flesh.  
1X1102 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the LORD your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.’”  
1X1103 So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.  
1X1104 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, that is, Jebus, where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.  
1X1105 The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will not come in here.” Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.  
1X1106 David said, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and commander.” And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, so he became chief.  
1X1107 And David lived in the stronghold; therefore it was called the city of David.  
1X1108 And he built the city all around from the Millo in complete circuit, and Joab repaired the rest of the city.  
1X1109 And David became greater and greater, for the LORD of hosts was with him.  
1X1110 Now these are the chiefs of David’s mighty men, who gave him strong support in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel.  
1X1111 This is an account of David’s mighty men: Jashobeam, a Hachmonite, was chief of the three. He wielded his spear against 300 whom he killed at one time.  
1X1112 And next to him among the three mighty men was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite.  
1X1113 He was with David at Pas-dammim when the Philistines were gathered there for battle. There was a plot of ground full of barley, and the men fled from the Philistines.  
1X1114 But he took his stand in the midst of the plot and defended it and killed the Philistines. And the LORD saved them by a great victory.  
1X1115 Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David at the cave of Adullam, when the army of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.  
1X1116 David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then at Bethlehem.  
1X1117 And David said longingly, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!”  
1X1118 Then the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and took it and brought it to David. But David would not drink it. He poured it out to the LORD  
1X1119 and said, “Far be it from me before my God that I should do this. Shall I drink the lifeblood of these men? For at the risk of their lives they brought it.” Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.  
1X1120 Now Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the thirty. And he wielded his spear against 300 men and killed them and won a name beside the three.  
1X1121 He was the most renowned of the thirty and became their commander, but he did not attain to the three.  
1X1122 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a valiant man of Kabzeel, a doer of great deeds. He struck down two heroes of Moab. He also went down and struck down a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen.  
1X1123 And he struck down an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits tall. The Egyptian had in his hand a spear like a weaver’s beam, but Benaiah went down to him with a staff and snatched the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with his own spear.  
1X1124 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and won a name beside the three mighty men.  
1X1125 He was renowned among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David set him over his bodyguard.  
1X1126 The mighty men were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,  
1X1127 Shammoth of Harod, Helez the Pelonite,  
1X1128 Ira the son of Ikkesh of Tekoa, Abiezer of Anathoth,  
1X1129 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,  
1X1130 Maharai of Netophah, Heled the son of Baanah of Netophah,  
1X1131 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the people of Benjamin, Benaiah of Pirathon,  
1X1132 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite,  
1X1133 Azmaveth of Baharum, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,  
1X1134 Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite,  
1X1135 Ahiam the son of Sachar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,  
1X1136 Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,  
1X1137 Hezro of Carmel, Naarai the son of Ezbai,  
1X1138 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,  
1X1139 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai of Beeroth, the armor-bearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,  
1X1140 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,  
1X1141 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,  
1X1142 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a leader of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,  
1X1143 Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,  
1X1144 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,  
1X1145 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,  
1X1146 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,  
1X1147 Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.  
1X1201 Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he could not move about freely because of Saul the son of Kish. And they were among the mighty men who helped him in war.  
1X1202 They were bowmen and could shoot arrows and sling stones with either the right or the left hand; they were Benjaminites, Saul’s kinsmen.  
1X1203 The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, both sons of Shemaah of Gibeah; also Jeziel and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; Beracah, Jehu of Anathoth,  
1X1204 Ishmaiah of Gibeon, a mighty man among the thirty and a leader over the thirty; Jeremiah, Jahaziel, Johanan, Jozabad of Gederah,  
1X1205 Eluzai, Jerimoth, Bealiah, Shemariah, Shephatiah the Haruphite;  
1X1206 Elkanah, Isshiah, Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites;  
1X1207 And Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.  
1X1208 From the Gadites there went over to David at the stronghold in the wilderness mighty and experienced warriors, expert with shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of lions and who were swift as gazelles upon the mountains:  
1X1209 Ezer the chief, Obadiah second, Eliab third,  
1X1210 Mishmannah fourth, Jeremiah fifth,  
1X1211 Attai sixth, Eliel seventh,  
1X1212 Johanan eighth, Elzabad ninth,  
1X1213 Jeremiah tenth, Machbannai eleventh.  
1X1214 These Gadites were officers of the army; the least was a match for a hundred men and the greatest for a thousand.  
1X1215 These are the men who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was overflowing all its banks, and put to flight all those in the valleys, to the east and to the west.  
1X1216 And some of the men of Benjamin and Judah came to the stronghold to David.  
1X1217 David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come to me in friendship to help me, my heart will be joined to you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, although there is no wrong in my hands, then may the God of our fathers see and rebuke you.”  
1X1218 Then the Spirit clothed Amasai, chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, O David, and with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to your helpers! For your God helps you.” Then David received them and made them officers of his troops.  
1X1219 Some of the men of Manasseh deserted to David when he came with the Philistines for the battle against Saul. (Yet he did not help them, for the rulers of the Philistines took counsel and sent him away, saying, “At peril to our heads he will desert to his master Saul.”)  
1X1220 As he went to Ziklag, these men of Manasseh deserted to him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, chiefs of thousands in Manasseh.  
1X1221 They helped David against the band of raiders, for they were all mighty men of valor and were commanders in the army.  
1X1222 For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great army, like an army of God.  
1X1223 These are the numbers of the divisions of the armed troops who came to David in Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him, according to the word of the LORD.  
1X1224 The men of Judah bearing shield and spear were 6,800 armed troops.  
1X1225 Of the Simeonites, mighty men of valor for war, 7,100.  
1X1226 Of the Levites 4,600.  
1X1227 The prince Jehoiada, of the house of Aaron, and with him 3,700.  
1X1228 Zadok, a young man mighty in valor, and twenty-two commanders from his own fathers’ house.  
1X1229 Of the Benjaminites, the kinsmen of Saul, 3,000, of whom the majority had to that point kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.  
1X1230 Of the Ephraimites 20,800, mighty men of valor, famous men in their fathers’ houses.  
1X1231 Of the half-tribe of Manasseh 18,000, who were expressly named to come and make David king.  
1X1232 Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command.  
1X1233 Of Zebulun 50,000 seasoned troops, equipped for battle with all the weapons of war, to help David with singleness of purpose.  
1X1234 Of Naphtali 1,000 commanders with whom were 37,000 men armed with shield and spear.  
1X1235 Of the Danites 28,600 men equipped for battle.  
1X1236 Of Asher 40,000 seasoned troops ready for battle.  
1X1237 Of the Reubenites and Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh from beyond the Jordan, 120,000 men armed with all the weapons of war.  
1X1238 All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with a whole heart to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel were of a single mind to make David king.  
1X1239 And they were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their brothers had made preparation for them.  
1X1240 And also their relatives, from as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came bringing food on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on oxen, abundant provisions of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, and wine and oil, oxen and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.  
1X1301 David consulted with the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, with every leader.  
1X1302 And David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you and from the LORD our God, let us send abroad to our brothers who remain in all the lands of Israel, as well as to the priests and Levites in the cities that have pasturelands, that they may be gathered to us.  
1X1303 Then let us bring again the ark of our God to us, for we did not seek it in the days of Saul.”  
1X1304 All the assembly agreed to do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.  
1X1305 So David assembled all Israel from the Nile of Egypt to Lebo-hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.  
1X1306 And David and all Israel went up to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim that belongs to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the LORD who sits enthroned above the cherubim.  
1X1307 And they carried the ark of God on a new cart, from the house of Abinadab, and Uzzah and Ahio were driving the cart.  
1X1308 And David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their might, with song and lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.  
1X1309 And when they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah put out his hand to take hold of the ark, for the oxen stumbled.  
1X1310 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and he struck him down because he put out his hand to the ark, and he died there before God.  
1X1311 And David was angry because the LORD had broken out against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez-uzza to this day.  
1X1312 And David was afraid of God that day, and he said, “How can I bring the ark of God home to me?”  
1X1313 So David did not take the ark home into the city of David, but took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.  
1X1314 And the ark of God remained with the household of Obed-edom in his house three months. And the LORD blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that he had.  
1X1401 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also masons and carpenters to build a house for him.  
1X1402 And David knew that the LORD had established him as king over Israel, and that his kingdom was highly exalted for the sake of his people Israel.  
1X1403 And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David fathered more sons and daughters.  
1X1404 These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,  
1X1405 Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet,  
1X1406 Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia,  
1X1407 Elishama, Beeliada and Eliphelet.  
1X1408 When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went out against them.  
1X1409 Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the Valley of Rephaim.  
1X1410 And David inquired of God, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand?” And the LORD said to him, “Go up, and I will give them into your hand.”  
1X1411 And he went up to Baal-perazim, and David struck them down there. And David said, “God has broken through my enemies by my hand, like a bursting flood.” Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.  
1X1412 And they left their gods there, and David gave command, and they were burned.  
1X1413 And the Philistines yet again made a raid in the valley.  
1X1414 And when David again inquired of God, God said to him, “You shall not go up after them; go around and come against them opposite the balsam trees.  
1X1415 And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then go out to battle, for God has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines.”  
1X1416 And David did as God commanded him, and they struck down the Philistine army from Gibeon to Gezer.  
1X1417 And the fame of David went out into all lands, and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.  
1X1501 David built houses for himself in the city of David. And he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.  
1X1502 Then David said that no one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the LORD had chosen them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister to him forever.  
1X1503 And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the LORD to its place, which he had prepared for it.  
1X1504 And David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites:  
1X1505 of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, with 120 of his brothers;  
1X1506 of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, with 220 of his brothers;  
1X1507 of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, with 130 of his brothers;  
1X1508 of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, with 200 of his brothers;  
1X1509 of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, with 80 of his brothers;  
1X1510 of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, with 112 of his brothers.  
1X1511 Then David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar, and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab,  
1X1512 and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites. Consecrate yourselves, you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.  
1X1513 Because you did not carry it the first time, the LORD our God broke out against us, because we did not seek him according to the rule.”  
1X1514 So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel.  
1X1515 And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the LORD.  
1X1516 David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.  
1X1517 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari, their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;  
1X1518 and with them their brothers of the second order, Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel.  
1X1519 The singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were to sound bronze cymbals;  
1X1520 Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play harps according to Alamoth;  
1X1521 but Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to lead with lyres according to the Sheminith.  
1X1522 Chenaniah, leader of the Levites in music, should direct the music, for he understood it.  
1X1523 Berechiah and Elkanah were to be gatekeepers for the ark.  
1X1524 Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, should blow the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were to be gatekeepers for the ark.  
1X1525 So David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom with rejoicing.  
1X1526 And because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.  
1X1527 David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as also were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and the singers and Chenaniah the leader of the music of the singers. And David wore a linen ephod.  
1X1528 So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, to the sound of the horn, trumpets, and cymbals, and made loud music on harps and lyres.  
1X1529 And as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.  
1X1601 And they brought in the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.  
1X1602 And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD  
1X1603 and distributed to all Israel, both men and women, to each a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.  
1X1604 Then he appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the LORD, to invoke, to thank, and to praise the LORD, the God of Israel.  
1X1605 Asaph was the chief, and second to him were Zechariah, Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel, who were to play harps and lyres; Asaph was to sound the cymbals,  
1X1606 and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.  
1X1607 Then on that day David first appointed that thanksgiving be sung to the LORD by Asaph and his brothers.  
1X1608 Oh give thanks to the LORD; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples!  
1X1609 Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wondrous works!  
1X1610 Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice!  
1X1611 Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his presence continually!  
1X1612 Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles and the judgments he uttered,  
1X1613 O offspring of Israel his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones!  
1X1614 He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.  
1X1615 Remember his covenant forever, the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,  
1X1616 the covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,  
1X1617 which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,  
1X1618 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan, as your portion for an inheritance.”  
1X1619 When you were few in number, of little account, and sojourners in it,  
1X1620 wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,  
1X1621 he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account,  
1X1622 saying, “Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!”  
1X1623 Sing to the LORD, all the earth! Tell of his salvation from day to day.  
1X1624 Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!  
1X1625 For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and he is to be feared above all gods.  
1X1626 For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the LORD made the heavens.  
1X1627 Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place.  
1X1628 Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength!  
1X1629 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering and come before him! Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness;  
1X1630 tremble before him, all the earth; yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.  
1X1631 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, “The LORD reigns!”  
1X1632 Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; let the field exult, and everything in it!  
1X1633 Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth.  
1X1634 Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!  
1X1635 Say also: “Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather and deliver us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.  
1X1636 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting!” Then all the people said, “Amen!” and praised the LORD.  
1X1637 So David left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD to minister regularly before the ark as each day required,  
1X1638 and also Obed-edom and his sixty-eight brothers, while Obed-edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah were to be gatekeepers.  
1X1639 And he left Zadok the priest and his brothers the priests before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon  
1X1640 to offer burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offering regularly morning and evening, to do all that is written in the Law of the LORD that he commanded Israel.  
1X1641 With them were Heman and Jeduthun and the rest of those chosen and expressly named to give thanks to the LORD, for his steadfast love endures forever.  
1X1642 Heman and Jeduthun had trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were appointed to the gate.  
1X1643 Then all the people departed each to his house, and David went home to bless his household.  
1X1701 Now when David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD is under a tent.”  
1X1702 And Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you.”  
1X1703 But that same night the word of the LORD came to Nathan,  
1X1704 “Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD: It is not you who will build me a house to dwell in.  
1X1705 For I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up Israel to this day, but I have gone from tent to tent and from dwelling to dwelling.  
1X1706 In all places where I have moved with all Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’  
1X1707 Now, therefore, thus shall you say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel,  
1X1708 and I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.  
1X1709 And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall waste them no more, as formerly,  
1X1710 from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Moreover, I declare to you that the LORD will build you a house.  
1X1711 When your days are fulfilled to walk with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.  
1X1712 He shall build a house for me, and I will establish his throne forever.  
1X1713 I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. I will not take my steadfast love from him, as I took it from him who was before you,  
1X1714 but I will confirm him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne shall be established forever.’”  
1X1715 In accordance with all these words, and in accordance with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.  
1X1716 Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and said, “Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?  
1X1717 And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God. You have also spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have shown me future generations, O LORD God!  
1X1718 And what more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant.  
1X1719 For your servant’s sake, O LORD, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.  
1X1720 There is none like you, O LORD, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.  
1X1721 And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making for yourself a name for great and awesome things, in driving out nations before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt?  
1X1722 And you made your people Israel to be your people forever, and you, O LORD, became their God.  
1X1723 And now, O LORD, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as you have spoken,  
1X1724 and your name will be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel’s God,’ and the house of your servant David will be established before you.  
1X1725 For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a house for him. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.  
1X1726 And now, O LORD, you are God, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.  
1X1727 Now you have been pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you, for it is you, O LORD, who have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”  
1X1801 After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Gath and its villages out of the hand of the Philistines.  
1X1802 And he defeated Moab, and the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.  
1X1803 David also defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah-Hamath, as he went to set up his monument at the river Euphrates.  
1X1804 And David took from him 1,000 chariots, 7,000 horsemen, and 20,000 foot soldiers. And David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but left enough for 100 chariots.  
1X1805 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down 22,000 men of the Syrians.  
1X1806 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David and brought tribute. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.  
1X1807 And David took the shields of gold that were carried by the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.  
1X1808 And from Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took a large amount of bronze. With it Solomon made the bronze sea and the pillars and the vessels of bronze.  
1X1809 When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadadezer, king of Zobah,  
1X1810 he sent his son Hadoram to King David, to ask about his health and to bless him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him; for Hadadezer had often been at war with Tou. And he sent all sorts of articles of gold, of silver, and of bronze.  
1X1811 These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he had carried off from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and Amalek.  
1X1812 And Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, killed 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.  
1X1813 Then he put garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became David’s servants. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.  
1X1814 So David reigned over all Israel, and he administered justice and equity to all his people.  
1X1815 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;  
1X1816 and Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests; and Shavsha was secretary;  
1X1817 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were the chief officials in the service of the king.  
1X1901 Now after this Nahash the king of the Ammonites died, and his son reigned in his place.  
1X1902 And David said, “I will deal kindly with Hanun the son of Nahash, for his father dealt kindly with me.” So David sent messengers to console him concerning his father. And David’s servants came to the land of the Ammonites to Hanun to console him.  
1X1903 But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, “Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Have not his servants come to you to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land?”  
1X1904 So Hanun took David’s servants and shaved them and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away;  
1X1905 and they departed. When David was told concerning the men, he sent messengers to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, “Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown and then return.”  
1X1906 When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent 1,000 talents of silver to hire chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia, from Aram-maacah, and from Zobah.  
1X1907 They hired 32,000 chariots and the king of Maacah with his army, who came and encamped before Medeba. And the Ammonites were mustered from their cities and came to battle.  
1X1908 When David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the army of the mighty men.  
1X1909 And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the city, and the kings who had come were by themselves in the open country.  
1X1910 When Joab saw that the battle was set against him both in front and in the rear, he chose some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Syrians.  
1X1911 The rest of his men he put in the charge of Abishai his brother, and they were arrayed against the Ammonites.  
1X1912 And he said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me, but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will help you.  
1X1913 Be strong, and let us use our strength for our people and for the cities of our God, and may the LORD do what seems good to him.”  
1X1914 So Joab and the people who were with him drew near before the Syrians for battle, and they fled before him.  
1X1915 And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, Joab’s brother, and entered the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.  
1X1916 But when the Syrians saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they sent messengers and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphrates, with Shophach the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head.  
1X1917 And when it was told to David, he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan and came to them and drew up his forces against them. And when David set the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.  
1X1918 And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians the men of 7,000 chariots and 40,000 foot soldiers, and put to death also Shophach the commander of their army.  
1X1919 And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became subject to him. So the Syrians were not willing to save the Ammonites anymore.  
1X2001 In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led out the army and ravaged the country of the Ammonites and came and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. And Joab struck down Rabbah and overthrew it.  
1X2002 And David took the crown of their king from his head. He found that it weighed a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone. And it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount.  
1X2003 And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and axes. And thus David did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.  
1X2004 And after this there arose war with the Philistines at Gezer. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, who was one of the descendants of the giants, and the Philistines were subdued.  
1X2005 And there was again war with the Philistines, and Elhanan the son of Jair struck down Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.  
1X2006 And there was again war at Gath, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was descended from the giants.  
1X2007 And when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David’s brother, struck him down.  
1X2008 These were descended from the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.  
1X2101 Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel.  
1X2102 So David said to Joab and the commanders of the army, “Go, number Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, and bring me a report, that I may know their number.”  
1X2103 But Joab said, “May the LORD add to his people a hundred times as many as they are! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord’s servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should it be a cause of guilt for Israel?”  
1X2104 But the king’s word prevailed against Joab. So Joab departed and went throughout all Israel and came back to Jerusalem.  
1X2105 And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to David. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword, and in Judah 470,000 who drew the sword.  
1X2106 But he did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, for the king’s command was abhorrent to Joab.  
1X2107 But God was displeased with this thing, and he struck Israel.  
1X2108 And David said to God, “I have sinned greatly in that I have done this thing. But now, please take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”  
1X2109 And the LORD spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,  
1X2110 “Go and say to David, ‘Thus says the LORD, Three things I offer you; choose one of them, that I may do it to you.’”  
1X2111 So Gad came to David and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Choose what you will:  
1X2112 either three years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the LORD, pestilence on the land, with the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”  
1X2113 Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is very great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”  
1X2114 So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel, and 70,000 men of Israel fell.  
1X2115 And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the LORD saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.  
1X2116 And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.  
1X2117 And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave command to number the people? It is I who have sinned and done great evil. But these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O LORD my God, be against me and against my father’s house. But do not let the plague be on your people.”  
1X2118 Now the angel of the LORD had commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.  
1X2119 So David went up at Gad’s word, which he had spoken in the name of the LORD.  
1X2120 Now Ornan was threshing wheat. He turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.  
1X2121 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David and went out from the threshing floor and paid homage to David with his face to the ground.  
1X2122 And David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of the threshing floor that I may build on it an altar to the LORD—give it to me at its full price—that the plague may be averted from the people.”  
1X2123 Then Ornan said to David, “Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems good to him. See, I give the oxen for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for the wood and the wheat for a grain offering; I give it all.”  
1X2124 But King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will buy them for the full price. I will not take for the LORD what is yours, nor offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”  
1X2125 So David paid Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site.  
1X2126 And David built there an altar to the LORD and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings and called on the LORD, and the LORD answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering.  
1X2127 Then the LORD commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.  
1X2128 At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.  
1X2129 For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time in the high place at Gibeon,  
1X2130 but David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.  
1X2201 Then David said, “Here shall be the house of the LORD God and here the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”  
1X2202 David commanded to gather together the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the house of God.  
1X2203 David also provided great quantities of iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for clamps, as well as bronze in quantities beyond weighing,  
1X2204 and cedar timbers without number, for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought great quantities of cedar to David.  
1X2205 For David said, “Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and glory throughout all lands. I will therefore make preparation for it.” So David provided materials in great quantity before his death.  
1X2206 Then he called for Solomon his son and charged him to build a house for the LORD, the God of Israel.  
1X2207 David said to Solomon, “My son, I had it in my heart to build a house to the name of the LORD my God.  
1X2208 But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘You have shed much blood and have waged great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood before me on the earth.  
1X2209 Behold, a son shall be born to you who shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his surrounding enemies. For his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days.  
1X2210 He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever.’  
1X2211 “Now, my son, the LORD be with you, so that you may succeed in building the house of the LORD your God, as he has spoken concerning you.  
1X2212 Only, may the LORD grant you discretion and understanding, that when he gives you charge over Israel you may keep the law of the LORD your God.  
1X2213 Then you will prosper if you are careful to observe the statutes and the rules that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Fear not; do not be dismayed.  
1X2214 With great pains I have provided for the house of the LORD 100,000 talents of gold, a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone, too, I have provided. To these you must add.  
1X2215 You have an abundance of workmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and all kinds of craftsmen without number, skilled in working  
1X2216 gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Arise and work! The LORD be with you!”  
1X2217 David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,  
1X2218 “Is not the LORD your God with you? And has he not given you peace on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the land is subdued before the LORD and his people.  
1X2219 Now set your mind and heart to seek the LORD your God. Arise and build the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy vessels of God may be brought into a house built for the name of the LORD.”  
1X2301 When David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.  
1X2302 David assembled all the leaders of Israel and the priests and the Levites.  
1X2303 The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was 38,000 men.  
1X2304 “Twenty-four thousand of these,” David said, “shall have charge of the work in the house of the LORD, 6,000 shall be officers and judges,  
1X2305 4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the LORD with the instruments that I have made for praise.”  
1X2306 And David organized them in divisions corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.  
1X2307 The sons of Gershon were Ladan and Shimei.  
1X2308 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.  
1X2309 The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’ houses of Ladan.  
1X2310 And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.  
1X2311 Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons, therefore they became counted as a single father’s house.  
1X2312 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.  
1X2313 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart to dedicate the most holy things, that he and his sons forever should make offerings before the LORD and minister to him and pronounce blessings in his name forever.  
1X2314 But the sons of Moses the man of God were named among the tribe of Levi.  
1X2315 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.  
1X2316 The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.  
1X2317 The sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the chief. Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.  
1X2318 The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.  
1X2319 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.  
1X2320 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief and Isshiah the second.  
1X2321 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.  
1X2322 Eleazar died having no sons, but only daughters; their kinsmen, the sons of Kish, married them.  
1X2323 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth, three.  
1X2324 These were the sons of Levi by their fathers’ houses, the heads of fathers’ houses as they were listed according to the number of the names of the individuals from twenty years old and upward who were to do the work for the service of the house of the LORD.  
1X2325 For David said, “The LORD, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people, and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.  
1X2326 And so the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle or any of the things for its service.”  
1X2327 For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered from twenty years old and upward.  
1X2328 For their duty was to assist the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, having the care of the courts and the chambers, the cleansing of all that is holy, and any work for the service of the house of God.  
1X2329 Their duty was also to assist with the showbread, the flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baked offering, the offering mixed with oil, and all measures of quantity or size.  
1X2330 And they were to stand every morning, thanking and praising the LORD, and likewise at evening,  
1X2331 and whenever burnt offerings were offered to the LORD on Sabbaths, new moons, and feast days, according to the number required of them, regularly before the LORD.  
1X2332 Thus they were to keep charge of the tent of meeting and the sanctuary, and to attend the sons of Aaron, their brothers, for the service of the house of the LORD.  
1X2401 The divisions of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.  
1X2402 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no children, so Eleazar and Ithamar became the priests.  
1X2403 With the help of Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, David organized them according to the appointed duties in their service.  
1X2404 Since more chief men were found among the sons of Eleazar than among the sons of Ithamar, they organized them under sixteen heads of fathers’ houses of the sons of Eleazar, and eight of the sons of Ithamar.  
1X2405 They divided them by lot, all alike, for there were sacred officers and officers of God among both the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar.  
1X2406 And the scribe Shemaiah, the son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded them in the presence of the king and the princes and Zadok the priest and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the priests and of the Levites, one father’s house being chosen for Eleazar and one chosen for Ithamar.  
1X2407 The first lot fell to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,  
1X2408 the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,  
1X2409 the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,  
1X2410 the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,  
1X2411 the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,  
1X2412 the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,  
1X2413 the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,  
1X2414 the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,  
1X2415   the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,   
1X2416 the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel,  
1X2417 the twenty-first to Jachin, the twenty-second to Gamul,  
1X2418 the twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah.  
1X2419 These had as their appointed duty in their service to come into the house of the LORD according to the procedure established for them by Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.  
1X2420 And of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.  
1X2421 Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief.  
1X2422 Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.  
1X2423 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.  
1X2424 The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.  
1X2425 The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.  
1X2426 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Jaaziah: Beno.  
1X2427 The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, Shoham, Zaccur, and Ibri.  
1X2428 Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.  
1X2429 Of Kish, the sons of Kish: Jerahmeel.  
1X2430 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.  
1X2431 These also, the head of each father’s house and his younger brother alike, cast lots, just as their brothers the sons of Aaron, in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of fathers’ houses of the priests and of the Levites.  
1X2501 David and the chiefs of the service also set apart for the service the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. The list of those who did the work and of their duties was:  
1X2502 Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah, sons of Asaph, under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied under the direction of the king.  
1X2503 Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the direction of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with the lyre in thanksgiving and praise to the LORD.  
1X2504 Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth.  
1X2505 All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer, according to the promise of God to exalt him, for God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.  
1X2506 They were all under the direction of their father in the music in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the order of the king.  
1X2507 The number of them along with their brothers, who were trained in singing to the LORD, all who were skillful, was 288.  
1X2508 And they cast lots for their duties, small and great, teacher and pupil alike.  
1X2509 The first lot fell for Asaph to Joseph; the second to Gedaliah, to him and his brothers and his sons, twelve;  
1X2510 the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2511 the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2512 the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2513 the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2514 the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2515 the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2516 the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2517 the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2518 the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2519 the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2520 to the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2521 to the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2522 to the fifteenth, to Jeremoth, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2523 to the sixteenth, to Hananiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2524 to the seventeenth, to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2525 to the eighteenth, to Hanani, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2526 to the nineteenth, to Mallothi, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2527 to the twentieth, to Eliathah, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2528 to the twenty-first, to Hothir, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2529 to the twenty-second, to Giddalti, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2530 to the twenty-third, to Mahazioth, his sons and his brothers, twelve;  
1X2531 to the twenty-fourth, to Romamti-ezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve.  
1X2601 As for the divisions of the gatekeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.  
1X2602 And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,  
1X2603 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh.  
1X2604 And Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,  
1X2605 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth, for God blessed him.  
1X2606 Also to his son Shemaiah were sons born who were rulers in their fathers’ houses, for they were men of great ability.  
1X2607 The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed and Elzabad, whose brothers were able men, Elihu and Semachiah.  
1X2608 All these were of the sons of Obed-edom with their sons and brothers, able men qualified for the service; sixty-two of Obed-edom.  
1X2609 And Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, able men, eighteen.  
1X2610 And Hosah, of the sons of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (for though he was not the firstborn, his father made him chief),  
1X2611 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen.  
1X2612 These divisions of the gatekeepers, corresponding to their chief men, had duties, just as their brothers did, ministering in the house of the LORD.  
1X2613 And they cast lots by fathers’ houses, small and great alike, for their gates.  
1X2614 The lot for the east fell to Shelemiah. They cast lots also for his son Zechariah, a shrewd counselor, and his lot came out for the north.  
1X2615 Obed-edom’s came out for the south, and to his sons was allotted the gatehouse.  
1X2616 For Shuppim and Hosah it came out for the west, at the gate of Shallecheth on the road that goes up. Watch corresponded to watch.  
1X2617 On the east there were six each day, on the north four each day, on the south four each day, as well as two and two at the gatehouse.  
1X2618 And for the colonnade on the west there were four at the road and two at the colonnade.  
1X2619 These were the divisions of the gatekeepers among the Korahites and the sons of Merari.  
1X2620 And of the Levites, Ahijah had charge of the treasuries of the house of God and the treasuries of the dedicated gifts.  
1X2621 The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers’ houses belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.  
1X2622 The sons of Jehieli, Zetham, and Joel his brother, were in charge of the treasuries of the house of the LORD.  
1X2623 Of the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites—  
1X2624 and Shebuel the son of Gershom, son of Moses, was chief officer in charge of the treasuries.  
1X2625 His brothers: from Eliezer were his son Rehabiah, and his son Jeshaiah, and his son Joram, and his son Zichri, and his son Shelomoth.  
1X2626 This Shelomoth and his brothers were in charge of all the treasuries of the dedicated gifts that David the king and the heads of the fathers’ houses and the officers of the thousands and the hundreds and the commanders of the army had dedicated.  
1X2627 From spoil won in battles they dedicated gifts for the maintenance of the house of the LORD.  
1X2628 Also all that Samuel the seer and Saul the son of Kish and Abner the son of Ner and Joab the son of Zeruiah had dedicated—all dedicated gifts were in the care of Shelomoth and his brothers.  
1X2629 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were appointed to external duties for Israel, as officers and judges.  
1X2630 Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, 1,700 men of ability, had the oversight of Israel westward of the Jordan for all the work of the LORD and for the service of the king.  
1X2631 Of the Hebronites, Jerijah was chief of the Hebronites of whatever genealogy or fathers’ houses. (In the fortieth year of David’s reign search was made and men of great ability among them were found at Jazer in Gilead.)  
1X2632 King David appointed him and his brothers, 2,700 men of ability, heads of fathers’ houses, to have the oversight of the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of the Manassites for everything pertaining to God and for the affairs of the king.  
1X2701 This is the number of the people of Israel, the heads of fathers’ houses, the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and their officers who served the king in all matters concerning the divisions that came and went, month after month throughout the year, each division numbering 24,000:  
1X2702 Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel was in charge of the first division in the first month; in his division were 24,000.  
1X2703 He was a descendant of Perez and was chief of all the commanders. He served for the first month.  
1X2704 Dodai the Ahohite was in charge of the division of the second month; in his division were 24,000.  
1X2705 The third commander, for the third month, was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the chief priest; in his division were 24,000.  
1X2706 This is the Benaiah who was a mighty man of the thirty and in command of the thirty; Ammizabad his son was in charge of his division.  
1X2707 Asahel the brother of Joab was fourth, for the fourth month, and his son Zebadiah after him; in his division were 24,000.  
1X2708 The fifth commander, for the fifth month, was Shamhuth the Izrahite; in his division were 24,000.  
1X2709 Sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira, the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite; in his division were 24,000.  
1X2710 Seventh, for the seventh month, was Helez the Pelonite, of the sons of Ephraim; in his division were 24,000.  
1X2711 Eighth, for the eighth month, was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites; in his division were 24,000.  
1X2712 Ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer of Anathoth, a Benjaminite; in his division were 24,000.  
1X2713 Tenth, for the tenth month, was Maharai of Netophah, of the Zerahites; in his division were 24,000.  
1X2714 Eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benaiah of Pirathon, of the sons of Ephraim; in his division were 24,000.  
1X2715 Twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; in his division were 24,000.  
1X2716 Over the tribes of Israel, for the Reubenites, Eliezer the son of Zichri was chief officer; for the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;  
1X2717 for Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; for Aaron, Zadok;  
1X2718 for Judah, Elihu, one of David’s brothers; for Issachar, Omri the son of Michael;  
1X2719 for Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah; for Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel;  
1X2720 for the Ephraimites, Hoshea the son of Azaziah; for the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah;  
1X2721 for the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah; for Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner;  
1X2722 for Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the leaders of the tribes of Israel.  
1X2723 David did not count those below twenty years of age, for the LORD had promised to make Israel as many as the stars of heaven.  
1X2724 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to count, but did not finish. Yet wrath came upon Israel for this, and the number was not entered in the chronicles of King David.  
1X2725 Over the king’s treasuries was Azmaveth the son of Adiel; and over the treasuries in the country, in the cities, in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah;  
1X2726 and over those who did the work of the field for tilling the soil was Ezri the son of Chelub;  
1X2727 and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over the produce of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite.  
1X2728 Over the olive and sycamore trees in the Shephelah was Baal-hanan the Gederite; and over the stores of oil was Joash.  
1X2729 Over the herds that pastured in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; over the herds in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai.  
1X2730 Over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite. Over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.  
1X2731 All these were stewards of King David’s property.  
1X2732 Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, being a man of understanding and a scribe. He and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni attended the king’s sons.  
1X2733 Ahithophel was the king’s counselor, and Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.  
1X2734 Ahithophel was succeeded by Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. Joab was commander of the king’s army.  
1X2801 David assembled at Jerusalem all the officials of Israel, the officials of the tribes, the officers of the divisions that served the king, the commanders of thousands, the commanders of hundreds, the stewards of all the property and livestock of the king and his sons, together with the palace officials, the mighty men and all the seasoned warriors.  
1X2802 Then King David rose to his feet and said: “Hear me, my brothers and my people. I had it in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD and for the footstool of our God, and I made preparations for building.  
1X2803 But God said to me, ‘You may not build a house for my name, for you are a man of war and have shed blood.’  
1X2804 Yet the LORD God of Israel chose me from all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever. For he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah my father’s house, and among my father’s sons he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel.  
1X2805 And of all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons) he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.  
1X2806 He said to me, ‘It is Solomon your son who shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.  
1X2807 I will establish his kingdom forever if he continues strong in keeping my commandments and my rules, as he is today.’  
1X2808 Now therefore in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, that you may possess this good land and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.  
1X2809 “And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.  
1X2810 Be careful now, for the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong and do it.”  
1X2811 Then David gave Solomon his son the plan of the vestibule of the temple, and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, and its inner chambers, and of the room for the mercy seat;  
1X2812 and the plan of all that he had in mind for the courts of the house of the LORD, all the surrounding chambers, the treasuries of the house of God, and the treasuries for dedicated gifts;  
1X2813 for the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, and all the work of the service in the house of the LORD; for all the vessels for the service in the house of the LORD,  
1X2814 the weight of gold for all golden vessels for each service, the weight of silver vessels for each service,  
1X2815 the weight of the golden lampstands and their lamps, the weight of gold for each lampstand and its lamps, the weight of silver for a lampstand and its lamps, according to the use of each lampstand in the service,  
1X2816 the weight of gold for each table for the showbread, the silver for the silver tables,  
1X2817 and pure gold for the forks, the basins and the cups; for the golden bowls and the weight of each; for the silver bowls and the weight of each;  
1X2818 for the altar of incense made of refined gold, and its weight; also his plan for the golden chariot of the cherubim that spread their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.  
1X2819 “All this he made clear to me in writing from the hand of the LORD, all the work to be done according to the plan.”  
1X2820 Then David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous and do it. Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed, for the LORD God, even my God, is with you. He will not leave you or forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of the LORD is finished.  
1X2821 And behold the divisions of the priests and the Levites for all the service of the house of God; and with you in all the work will be every willing man who has skill for any kind of service; also the officers and all the people will be wholly at your command.”  
1X2901 And David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is young and inexperienced, and the work is great, for the palace will not be for man but for the LORD God.  
1X2902 So I have provided for the house of my God, so far as I was able, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, and the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood, besides great quantities of onyx and stones for setting, antimony, colored stones, all sorts of precious stones and marble.  
1X2903 Moreover, in addition to all that I have provided for the holy house, I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, and because of my devotion to the house of my God I give it to the house of my God:  
1X2904 3,000 talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and 7,000 talents of refined silver, for overlaying the walls of the house,  
1X2905 and for all the work to be done by craftsmen, gold for the things of gold and silver for the things of silver. Who then will offer willingly, consecrating himself today to the LORD?”  
1X2906 Then the leaders of fathers’ houses made their freewill offerings, as did also the leaders of the tribes, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and the officers over the king’s work.  
1X2907 They gave for the service of the house of God 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze and 100,000 talents of iron.  
1X2908 And whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the LORD, in the care of Jehiel the Gershonite.  
1X2909 Then the people rejoiced because they had given willingly, for with a whole heart they had offered freely to the LORD. David the king also rejoiced greatly.  
1X2910 Therefore David blessed the LORD in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: “Blessed are you, O LORD, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.  
1X2911 Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all.  
1X2912 Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.  
1X2913 And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.  
1X2914 “But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.  
1X2915 For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.  
1X2916 O LORD our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own.  
1X2917 I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you.  
1X2918 O LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep forever such purposes and thoughts in the hearts of your people, and direct their hearts toward you.  
1X2919 Grant to Solomon my son a whole heart that he may keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, performing all, and that he may build the palace for which I have made provision.”  
1X2920 Then David said to all the assembly, “Bless the LORD your God.” And all the assembly blessed the LORD, the God of their fathers, and bowed their heads and paid homage to the LORD and to the king.  
1X2921 And they offered sacrifices to the LORD, and on the next day offered burnt offerings to the LORD, 1,000 bulls, 1,000 rams, and 1,000 lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.  
1X2922 And they ate and drank before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and they anointed him as prince for the LORD, and Zadok as priest.  
1X2923 Then Solomon sat on the throne of the LORD as king in place of David his father. And he prospered, and all Israel obeyed him.  
1X2924 All the leaders and the mighty men, and also all the sons of King David, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.  
1X2925 And the LORD made Solomon very great in the sight of all Israel and bestowed on him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.  
1X2926 Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.  
1X2927 The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.  
1X2928 Then he died at a good age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place.  
1X2929 Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are written in the Chronicles of Samuel the seer, and in the Chronicles of Nathan the prophet, and in the Chronicles of Gad the seer,  
1X2930 with accounts of all his rule and his might and of the circumstances that came upon him and upon Israel and upon all the kingdoms of the countries.  
2X0101 Solomon the son of David established himself in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him and made him exceedingly great.  
2X0102 Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers’ houses.  
2X0103 And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness, was there.  
2X0104 (But David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.)  
2X0105 Moreover, the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the LORD. And Solomon and the assembly sought it out.  
2X0106 And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before the LORD, which was at the tent of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it.  
2X0107 In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, “Ask what I shall give you.”  
2X0108 And Solomon said to God, “You have shown great and steadfast love to David my father, and have made me king in his place.  
2X0109 O LORD God, let your word to David my father be now fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.  
2X0110 Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?”  
2X0111 God answered Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked for possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked for long life, but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may govern my people over whom I have made you king,  
2X0112 wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like.”  
2X0113 So Solomon came from the high place at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem. And he reigned over Israel.  
2X0114 Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.  
2X0115 And the king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.  
2X0116 And Solomon’s import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king’s traders would buy them from Kue for a price.  
2X0117 They imported a chariot from Egypt for 600 shekels of silver, and a horse for 150. Likewise through them these were exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Syria.  
2X0201 Now Solomon purposed to build a temple for the name of the LORD, and a royal palace for himself.  
2X0202 And Solomon assigned 70,000 men to bear burdens and 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 to oversee them.  
2X0203 And Solomon sent word to Hiram the king of Tyre: “As you dealt with David my father and sent him cedar to build himself a house to dwell in, so deal with me.  
2X0204 Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the LORD my God and dedicate it to him for the burning of incense of sweet spices before him, and for the regular arrangement of the showbread, and for burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths and the new moons and the appointed feasts of the LORD our God, as ordained forever for Israel.  
2X0205 The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods.  
2X0206 But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him?  
2X0207 So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.  
2X0208 Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And my servants will be with your servants,  
2X0209 to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am to build will be great and wonderful.  
2X0210 I will give for your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, 20,000 cors of crushed wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of oil.”  
2X0211 Then Hiram the king of Tyre answered in a letter that he sent to Solomon, “Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you king over them.”  
2X0212 Hiram also said, “Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, who has discretion and understanding, who will build a temple for the LORD and a royal palace for himself.  
2X0213 “Now I have sent a skilled man, who has understanding, Huram-abi,  
2X0214 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father.  
2X0215 Now therefore the wheat and barley, oil and wine, of which my lord has spoken, let him send to his servants.  
2X0216 And we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may take it up to Jerusalem.”  
2X0217 Then Solomon counted all the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, after the census of them that David his father had taken, and there were found 153,600.  
2X0218 Seventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.  
2X0301 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.  
2X0302 He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.  
2X0303 These are Solomon’s measurements for building the house of God: the length, in cubits of the old standard, was sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.  
2X0304 The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and its height was 120 cubits. He overlaid it on the inside with pure gold.  
2X0305 The nave he lined with cypress and covered it with fine gold and made palms and chains on it.  
2X0306 He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold of Parvaim.  
2X0307 So he lined the house with gold—its beams, its thresholds, its walls, and its doors—and he carved cherubim on the walls.  
2X0308 And he made the Most Holy Place. Its length, corresponding to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth was twenty cubits. He overlaid it with 600 talents of fine gold.  
2X0309 The weight of gold for the nails was fifty shekels. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.  
2X0310 In the Most Holy Place he made two cherubim of wood and overlaid them with gold.  
2X0311 The wings of the cherubim together extended twenty cubits: one wing of the one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub;  
2X0312 and of this cherub, one wing, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, also of five cubits, was joined to the wing of the first cherub.  
2X0313 The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. The cherubim stood on their feet, facing the nave.  
2X0314 And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and he worked cherubim on it.  
2X0315 In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each.  
2X0316 He made chains like a necklace and put them on the tops of the pillars, and he made a hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains.  
2X0317 He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south, the other on the north; that on the south he called Jachin, and that on the north Boaz.  
2X0401 He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.  
2X0402 Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.  
2X0403 Under it were figures of gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.  
2X0404 It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, and all their rear parts were inward.  
2X0405 Its thickness was a handbreadth. And its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held 3,000 baths.  
2X0406 He also made ten basins in which to wash, and set five on the south side, and five on the north side. In these they were to rinse off what was used for the burnt offering, and the sea was for the priests to wash in.  
2X0407 And he made ten golden lampstands as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.  
2X0408 He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. And he made a hundred basins of gold.  
2X0409 He made the court of the priests and the great court and doors for the court and overlaid their doors with bronze.  
2X0410 And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house.  
2X0411 Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of God:  
2X0412 the two pillars, the bowls, and the two capitals on the top of the pillars; and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;  
2X0413 and the 400 pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.  
2X0414 He made the stands also, and the basins on the stands,  
2X0415 and the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath it.  
2X0416 The pots, the shovels, the forks, and all the equipment for these Huram-abi made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the LORD.  
2X0417 In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.  
2X0418 Solomon made all these things in great quantities, for the weight of the bronze was not sought.  
2X0419 So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God: the golden altar, the tables for the bread of the Presence,  
2X0420 the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to burn before the inner sanctuary, as prescribed;  
2X0421 the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of purest gold;  
2X0422 the snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and fire pans, of pure gold, and the sockets of the temple, for the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and for the doors of the nave of the temple were of gold.  
2X0501 Thus all the work that Solomon did for the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.  
2X0502 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers’ houses of the people of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.  
2X0503 And all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast that is in the seventh month.  
2X0504 And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.  
2X0505 And they brought up the ark, the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the tent; the Levitical priests brought them up.  
2X0506 And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.  
2X0507 Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.  
2X0508 The cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim made a covering above the ark and its poles.  
2X0509 And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day.  
2X0510 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses put there at Horeb, where the LORD made a covenant with the people of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.  
2X0511 And when the priests came out of the Holy Place (for all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves, without regard to their divisions,  
2X0512 and all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, their sons and kinsmen, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the altar with 120 priests who were trumpeters;  
2X0513 and it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the LORD ), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the LORD, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever,” the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,  
2X0514 so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.  
2X0601 Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.  
2X0602 But I have built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever.”  
2X0603 Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.  
2X0604 And he said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to David my father, saying,  
2X0605 ‘Since the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, and I chose no man as prince over my people Israel;  
2X0606 but I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’  
2X0607 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.  
2X0608 But the LORD said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart.  
2X0609 Nevertheless, it is not you who shall build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’  
2X0610 Now the LORD has fulfilled his promise that he made. For I have risen in the place of David my father and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and I have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.  
2X0611 And there I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD that he made with the people of Israel.”  
2X0612 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.  
2X0613 Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the court, and he stood on it. Then he knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven,  
2X0614 and said, “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing steadfast love to your servants who walk before you with all their heart,  
2X0615 who have kept with your servant David my father what you declared to him. You spoke with your mouth, and with your hand have fulfilled it this day.  
2X0616 Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.’  
2X0617 Now therefore, O LORD, God of Israel, let your word be confirmed, which you have spoken to your servant David.  
2X0618 “But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built!  
2X0619 Yet have regard to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O LORD my God, listening to the cry and to the prayer that your servant prays before you,  
2X0620 that your eyes may be open day and night toward this house, the place where you have promised to set your name, that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.  
2X0621 And listen to the pleas of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. And listen from heaven your dwelling place, and when you hear, forgive.  
2X0622 “If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath and comes and swears his oath before your altar in this house,  
2X0623 then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.  
2X0624 “If your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and acknowledge your name and pray and plead with you in this house,  
2X0625 then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and bring them again to the land that you gave to them and to their fathers.  
2X0626 “When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,  
2X0627 then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.  
2X0628 “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,  
2X0629 whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing his own affliction and his own sorrow and stretching out his hands toward this house,  
2X0630 then hear from heaven your dwelling place and forgive and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of mankind,  
2X0631 that they may fear you and walk in your ways all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.  
2X0632 “Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, comes from a far country for the sake of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this house,  
2X0633 hear from heaven your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to you, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house that I have built is called by your name.  
2X0634 “If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,  
2X0635 then hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and maintain their cause.  
2X0636 “If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to a land far or near,  
2X0637 yet if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’  
2X0638 if they repent with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity to which they were carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name,  
2X0639 then hear from heaven your dwelling place their prayer and their pleas, and maintain their cause and forgive your people who have sinned against you.  
2X0640 Now, O my God, let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place.  
2X0641 “And now arise, O LORD God, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might. Let your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in your goodness.  
2X0642 O LORD God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember your steadfast love for David your servant.”  
2X0701 As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.  
2X0702 And the priests could not enter the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD filled the LORD’s house.  
2X0703 When all the people of Israel saw the fire come down and the glory of the LORD on the temple, they bowed down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to the LORD, saying, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.”  
2X0704 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before the LORD.  
2X0705 King Solomon offered as a sacrifice 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.  
2X0706 The priests stood at their posts; the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the LORD that King David had made for giving thanks to the LORD—for his steadfast love endures forever—whenever David offered praises by their ministry; opposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood.  
2X0707 And Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD, for there he offered the burnt offering and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar Solomon had made could not hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat.  
2X0708 At that time Solomon held the feast for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt.  
2X0709 And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for they had kept the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days.  
2X0710 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the prosperity that the LORD had granted to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.  
2X0711 Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king’s house. All that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the LORD and in his own house he successfully accomplished.  
2X0712 Then the LORD appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.  
2X0713 When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,  
2X0714 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.  
2X0715 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.  
2X0716 For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.  
2X0717 And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules,  
2X0718 then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to rule Israel.’  
2X0719 “But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,  
2X0720 then I will pluck you up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.  
2X0721 And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’  
2X0722 Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore he has brought all this disaster on them.’”  
2X0801 At the end of twenty years, in which Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house,  
2X0802 Solomon rebuilt the cities that Hiram had given to him, and settled the people of Israel in them.  
2X0803 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah and took it.  
2X0804 He built Tadmor in the wilderness and all the store cities that he built in Hamath.  
2X0805 He also built Upper Beth-horon and Lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,  
2X0806 and Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had and all the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.  
2X0807 All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,  
2X0808 from their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed—these Solomon drafted as forced labor, and so they are to this day.  
2X0809 But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves for his work; they were soldiers, and his officers, the commanders of his chariots, and his horsemen.  
2X0810 And these were the chief officers of King Solomon, 250, who exercised authority over the people.  
2X0811 Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, “My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the LORD has come are holy.”  
2X0812 Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD that he had built before the vestibule,  
2X0813 as the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.  
2X0814 According to the ruling of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry before the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions at each gate, for so David the man of God had commanded.  
2X0815 And they did not turn aside from what the king had commanded the priests and Levites concerning any matter and concerning the treasuries.  
2X0816 Thus was accomplished all the work of Solomon from the day the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed.  
2X0817 Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and Eloth on the shore of the sea, in the land of Edom.  
2X0818 And Hiram sent to him by the hand of his servants ships and servants familiar with the sea, and they went to Ophir together with the servants of Solomon and brought from there 450 talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon.  
2X0901 Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions, having a very great retinue and camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.  
2X0902 And Solomon answered all her questions. There was nothing hidden from Solomon that he could not explain to her.  
2X0903 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,  
2X0904 the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, and their clothing, his cupbearers, and their clothing, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the LORD, there was no more breath in her.  
2X0905 And she said to the king, “The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom,  
2X0906 but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not told me; you surpass the report that I heard.  
2X0907 Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!  
2X0908 Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the LORD your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness.”  
2X0909 Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There were no spices such as those that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.  
2X0910 Moreover, the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum wood and precious stones.  
2X0911 And the king made from the algum wood supports for the house of the LORD and for the king’s house, lyres also and harps for the singers. There never was seen the like of them before in the land of Judah.  
2X0912 And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what she had brought to the king. So she turned and went back to her own land with her servants.  
2X0913 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,  
2X0914 besides that which the explorers and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land brought gold and silver to Solomon.  
2X0915 King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold; 600 shekels of beaten gold went into each shield.  
2X0916 And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; 300 shekels of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.  
2X0917 The king also made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with pure gold.  
2X0918 The throne had six steps and a footstool of gold, which were attached to the throne, and on each side of the seat were armrests and two lions standing beside the armrests,  
2X0919 while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. Nothing like it was ever made for any kingdom.  
2X0920 All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.  
2X0921 For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.  
2X0922 Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.  
2X0923 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.  
2X0924 Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and of gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.  
2X0925 And Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.  
2X0926 And he ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt.  
2X0927 And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.  
2X0928 And horses were imported for Solomon from Egypt and from all lands.  
2X0929 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from first to last, are they not written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?  
2X0930 Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.  
2X0931 And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father, and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.  
2X1001 Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.  
2X1002 And as soon as Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt.  
2X1003 And they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all Israel came and said to Rehoboam,  
2X1004 “Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you.”  
2X1005 He said to them, “Come to me again in three days.” So the people went away.  
2X1006 Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”  
2X1007 And they said to him, “If you will be good to this people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”  
2X1008 But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.  
2X1009 And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”  
2X1010 And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us’; thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s thighs.  
2X1011 And now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”  
2X1012 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king said, “Come to me again the third day.”  
2X1013 And the king answered them harshly; and forsaking the counsel of the old men,  
2X1014 King Rehoboam spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”  
2X1015 So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by God that the LORD might fulfill his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.  
2X1016 And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, “What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Each of you to your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David.” So all Israel went to their tents.  
2X1017 But Rehoboam reigned over the people of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah.  
2X1018 Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and the people of Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam quickly mounted his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.  
2X1019 So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.  
2X1101 When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.  
2X1102 But the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah the man of God:  
2X1103 “Say to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,  
2X1104 ‘Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives. Return every man to his home, for this thing is from me.’” So they listened to the word of the LORD and returned and did not go against Jeroboam.  
2X1105 Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and he built cities for defense in Judah.  
2X1106 He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,  
2X1107 Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam,  
2X1108 Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,  
2X1109 Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,  
2X1110 Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, fortified cities that are in Judah and in Benjamin.  
2X1111 He made the fortresses strong, and put commanders in them, and stores of food, oil, and wine.  
2X1112 And he put shields and spears in all the cities and made them very strong. So he held Judah and Benjamin.  
2X1113 And the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel presented themselves to him from all places where they lived.  
2X1114 For the Levites left their common lands and their holdings and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons cast them out from serving as priests of the LORD,  
2X1115 and he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the calves that he had made.  
2X1116 And those who had set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came after them from all the tribes of Israel to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.  
2X1117 They strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and for three years they made Rehoboam the son of Solomon secure, for they walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon.  
2X1118 Rehoboam took as wife Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse,  
2X1119 and she bore him sons, Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.  
2X1120 After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.  
2X1121 Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).  
2X1122 And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as chief prince among his brothers, for he intended to make him king.  
2X1123 And he dealt wisely and distributed some of his sons through all the districts of Judah and Benjamin, in all the fortified cities, and he gave them abundant provisions and procured wives for them.  
2X1201 When the rule of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.  
2X1202 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem  
2X1203 with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people were without number who came with him from Egypt—Libyans, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians.  
2X1204 And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.  
2X1205 Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “Thus says the LORD, ‘You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak.’”  
2X1206 Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”  
2X1207 When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah: “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.  
2X1208 Nevertheless, they shall be servants to him, that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.”  
2X1209 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. He took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house. He took away everything. He also took away the shields of gold that Solomon had made,  
2X1210 and King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.  
2X1211 And as often as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard came and carried them and brought them back to the guardroom.  
2X1212 And when he humbled himself the wrath of the LORD turned from him, so as not to make a complete destruction. Moreover, conditions were good in Judah.  
2X1213 So King Rehoboam grew strong in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.  
2X1214 And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.  
2X1215 Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the chronicles of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer? There were continual wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.  
2X1216 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David, and Abijah his son reigned in his place.  
2X1301 In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah began to reign over Judah.  
2X1302 He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. Now there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.  
2X1303 Abijah went out to battle, having an army of valiant men of war, 400,000 chosen men. And Jeroboam drew up his line of battle against him with 800,000 chosen mighty warriors.  
2X1304 Then Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim that is in the hill country of Ephraim and said, “Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!  
2X1305 Ought you not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?  
2X1306 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his lord,  
2X1307 and certain worthless scoundrels gathered about him and defied Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and irresolute and could not withstand them.  
2X1308 “And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made you for gods.  
2X1309 Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes for ordination with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are not gods.  
2X1310 But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests ministering to the LORD who are sons of Aaron, and Levites for their service.  
2X1311 They offer to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt offerings and incense of sweet spices, set out the showbread on the table of pure gold, and care for the golden lampstand that its lamps may burn every evening. For we keep the charge of the LORD our God, but you have forsaken him.  
2X1312 Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with their battle trumpets to sound the call to battle against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your fathers, for you cannot succeed.”  
2X1313 Jeroboam had sent an ambush around to come upon them from behind. Thus his troops were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.  
2X1314 And when Judah looked, behold, the battle was in front of and behind them. And they cried to the LORD, and the priests blew the trumpets.  
2X1315 Then the men of Judah raised the battle shout. And when the men of Judah shouted, God defeated Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.  
2X1316 The men of Israel fled before Judah, and God gave them into their hand.  
2X1317 Abijah and his people struck them with great force, so there fell slain of Israel 500,000 chosen men.  
2X1318 Thus the men of Israel were subdued at that time, and the men of Judah prevailed, because they relied on the LORD, the God of their fathers.  
2X1319 And Abijah pursued Jeroboam and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages and Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron with its villages.  
2X1320 Jeroboam did not recover his power in the days of Abijah. And the LORD struck him down, and he died.  
2X1321 But Abijah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.  
2X1322 The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.  
2X1401 Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land had rest for ten years.  
2X1402 And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.  
2X1403 He took away the foreign altars and the high places and broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherim  
2X1404 and commanded Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to keep the law and the commandment.  
2X1405 He also took out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him.  
2X1406 He built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest. He had no war in those years, for the LORD gave him peace.  
2X1407 And he said to Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the LORD our God. We have sought him, and he has given us peace on every side.” So they built and prospered.  
2X1408 And Asa had an army of 300,000 from Judah, armed with large shields and spears, and 280,000 men from Benjamin that carried shields and drew bows. All these were mighty men of valor.  
2X1409 Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots, and came as far as Mareshah.  
2X1410 And Asa went out to meet him, and they drew up their lines of battle in the Valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.  
2X1411 And Asa cried to the LORD his God, “O LORD, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, you are our God; let not man prevail against you.”  
2X1412 So the LORD defeated the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians fled.  
2X1413 Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar, and the Ethiopians fell until none remained alive, for they were broken before the LORD and his army. The men of Judah carried away very much spoil.  
2X1414 And they attacked all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of the LORD was upon them. They plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.  
2X1415 And they struck down the tents of those who had livestock and carried away sheep in abundance and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.  
2X1501 The Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded,  
2X1502 and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The LORD is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.  
2X1503 For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law,  
2X1504 but when in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.  
2X1505 In those times there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands.  
2X1506 They were broken in pieces. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.  
2X1507 But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”  
2X1508 As soon as Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded, he took courage and put away the detestable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the LORD that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the LORD.  
2X1509 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were residing with them, for great numbers had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.  
2X1510 They were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.  
2X1511 They sacrificed to the LORD on that day from the spoil that they had brought 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep.  
2X1512 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul,  
2X1513 but that whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.  
2X1514 They swore an oath to the LORD with a loud voice and with shouting and with trumpets and with horns.  
2X1515 And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and had sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and the LORD gave them rest all around.  
2X1516 Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.  
2X1517 But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true all his days.  
2X1518 And he brought into the house of God the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels.  
2X1519 And there was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.  
2X1601 In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.  
2X1602 Then Asa took silver and gold from the treasures of the house of the LORD and the king’s house and sent them to Ben-hadad king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying,  
2X1603 “There is a covenant between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.”  
2X1604 And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.  
2X1605 And when Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah and let his work cease.  
2X1606 Then King Asa took all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them he built Geba and Mizpah.  
2X1607 At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, “Because you relied on the king of Syria, and did not rely on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you.  
2X1608 Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, he gave them into your hand.  
2X1609 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”  
2X1610 Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the stocks in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.  
2X1611 The acts of Asa, from first to last, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.  
2X1612 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek the LORD, but sought help from physicians.  
2X1613 And Asa slept with his fathers, dying in the forty-first year of his reign.  
2X1614 They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer’s art, and they made a very great fire in his honor.  
2X1701 Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place and strengthened himself against Israel.  
2X1702 He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim that Asa his father had captured.  
2X1703 The LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals,  
2X1704 but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments, and not according to the practices of Israel.  
2X1705 Therefore the LORD established the kingdom in his hand. And all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had great riches and honor.  
2X1706 His heart was courageous in the ways of the LORD. And furthermore, he took the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.  
2X1707 In the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;  
2X1708 and with them the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah; and with these Levites, the priests Elishama and Jehoram.  
2X1709 And they taught in Judah, having the Book of the Law of the LORD with them. They went about through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.  
2X1710 And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, and they made no war against Jehoshaphat.  
2X1711 Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and silver for tribute, and the Arabians also brought him 7,700 rams and 7,700 goats.  
2X1712 And Jehoshaphat grew steadily greater. He built in Judah fortresses and store cities,  
2X1713 and he had large supplies in the cities of Judah. He had soldiers, mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem.  
2X1714 This was the muster of them by fathers’ houses: Of Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander, with 300,000 mighty men of valor;  
2X1715 and next to him Jehohanan the commander, with 280,000;  
2X1716 and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, a volunteer for the service of the LORD, with 200,000 mighty men of valor.  
2X1717 Of Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, with 200,000 men armed with bow and shield;  
2X1718 and next to him Jehozabad with 180,000 armed for war.  
2X1719 These were in the service of the king, besides those whom the king had placed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.  
2X1801 Now Jehoshaphat had great riches and honor, and he made a marriage alliance with Ahab.  
2X1802 After some years he went down to Ahab in Samaria. And Ahab killed an abundance of sheep and oxen for him and for the people who were with him, and induced him to go up against Ramoth-gilead.  
2X1803 Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead?” He answered him, “I am as you are, my people as your people. We will be with you in the war.”  
2X1804 And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Inquire first for the word of the LORD.”  
2X1805 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall we go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for God will give it into the hand of the king.”  
2X1806 But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not here another prophet of the LORD of whom we may inquire?”  
2X1807 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”  
2X1808 Then the king of Israel summoned an officer and said, “Bring quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah.”  
2X1809 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes. And they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.  
2X1810 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron and said, “Thus says the LORD, ‘With these you shall push the Syrians until they are destroyed.’”  
2X1811 And all the prophets prophesied so and said, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph. The LORD will give it into the hand of the king.”  
2X1812 And the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, “Behold, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king. Let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.”  
2X1813 But Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, what my God says, that I will speak.”  
2X1814 And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I refrain?” And he answered, “Go up and triumph; they will be given into your hand.”  
2X1815 But the king said to him, “How many times shall I make you swear that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the LORD?”  
2X1816 And he said, “I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd. And the LORD said, ‘These have no master; let each return to his home in peace.’”  
2X1817 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?”  
2X1818 And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.  
2X1819 And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab the king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth- gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another.  
2X1820 Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ And the LORD said to him, ‘By what means?’  
2X1821 And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’  
2X1822 Now therefore behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets. The LORD has declared disaster concerning you.”  
2X1823 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go from me to speak to you?”  
2X1824 And Micaiah said, “Behold, you shall see on that day when you go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.”  
2X1825 And the king of Israel said, “Seize Micaiah and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son,  
2X1826 and say, ‘Thus says the king, Put this fellow in prison and feed him with meager rations of bread and water until I return in peace.’”  
2X1827 And Micaiah said, “If you return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Hear, all you peoples!”  
2X1828 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.  
2X1829 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes.” And the king of Israel disguised himself, and they went into battle.  
2X1830 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, “Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel.”  
2X1831 As soon as the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is the king of Israel.” So they turned to fight against him. And Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; God drew them away from him.  
2X1832 For as soon as the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.  
2X1833 But a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel between the scale armor and the breastplate. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and carry me out of the battle, for I am wounded.”  
2X1834 And the battle continued that day, and the king of Israel was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians until evening. Then at sunset he died.  
2X1901 Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned in safety to his house in Jerusalem.  
2X1902 But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the LORD.  
2X1903 Nevertheless, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”  
2X1904 Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem. And he went out again among the people, from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.  
2X1905 He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,  
2X1906 and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment.  
2X1907 Now then, let the fear of the LORD be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with the LORD our God, or partiality or taking bribes.”  
2X1908 Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, to give judgment for the LORD and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.  
2X1909 And he charged them: “Thus you shall do in the fear of the LORD, in faithfulness, and with your whole heart:  
2X1910 whenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.  
2X1911 And behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the governor of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters, and the Levites will serve you as officers. Deal courageously, and may the LORD be with the upright!”  
2X2001 After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.  
2X2002 Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, “A great multitude is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the sea; and, behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar” (that is, Engedi).  
2X2003 Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.  
2X2004 And Judah assembled to seek help from the LORD; from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.  
2X2005 And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,  
2X2006 and said, “O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.  
2X2007 Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?  
2X2008 And they have lived in it and have built for you in it a sanctuary for your name, saying,  
2X2009 ‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before you—for your name is in this house—and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’  
2X2010 And now behold, the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, and whom they avoided and did not destroy—  
2X2011 behold, they reward us by coming to drive us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.  
2X2012 O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”  
2X2013 Meanwhile all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.  
2X2014 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly.  
2X2015 And he said, “Listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: Thus says the LORD to you, ‘Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed at this great horde, for the battle is not yours but God’s.  
2X2016 Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz. You will find them at the end of the valley, east of the wilderness of Jeruel.  
2X2017 You will not need to fight in this battle. Stand firm, hold your position, and see the salvation of the LORD on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.’ Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, and the LORD will be with you.”  
2X2018 Then Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the LORD, worshiping the LORD.  
2X2019 And the Levites, of the Kohathites and the Korahites, stood up to praise the LORD, the God of Israel, with a very loud voice.  
2X2020 And they rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed.”  
2X2021 And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the LORD and praise him in holy attire, as they went before the army, and say, “Give thanks to the LORD, for his steadfast love endures forever.”  
2X2022 And when they began to sing and praise, the LORD set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed.  
2X2023 For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they all helped to destroy one another.  
2X2024 When Judah came to the watchtower of the wilderness, they looked toward the horde, and behold, there were dead bodies lying on the ground; none had escaped.  
2X2025 When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their spoil, they found among them, in great numbers, goods, clothing, and precious things, which they took for themselves until they could carry no more. They were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much.  
2X2026 On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Beracah, for there they blessed the LORD. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Beracah to this day.  
2X2027 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat at their head, returning to Jerusalem with joy, for the LORD had made them rejoice over their enemies.  
2X2028 They came to Jerusalem with harps and lyres and trumpets, to the house of the LORD.  
2X2029 And the fear of God came on all the kingdoms of the countries when they heard that the LORD had fought against the enemies of Israel.  
2X2030 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for his God gave him rest all around.  
2X2031 Thus Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.  
2X2032 He walked in the way of Asa his father and did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD.  
2X2033 The high places, however, were not taken away; the people had not yet set their hearts upon the God of their fathers.  
2X2034 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, from first to last, are written in the chronicles of Jehu the son of Hanani, which are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel.  
2X2035 After this Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined with Ahaziah king of Israel, who acted wickedly.  
2X2036 He joined him in building ships to go to Tarshish, and they built the ships in Ezion-geber.  
2X2037 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined with Ahaziah, the LORD will destroy what you have made.” And the ships were wrecked and were not able to go to Tarshish.  
2X2101 Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.  
2X2102 He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.  
2X2103 Their father gave them great gifts of silver, gold, and valuable possessions, together with fortified cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.  
2X2104 When Jehoram had ascended the throne of his father and was established, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.  
2X2105 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.  
2X2106 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.  
2X2107 Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and since he had promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.  
2X2108 In his days Edom revolted from the rule of Judah and set up a king of their own.  
2X2109 Then Jehoram passed over with his commanders and all his chariots, and he rose by night and struck the Edomites who had surrounded him and his chariot commanders.  
2X2110 So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. At that time Libnah also revolted from his rule, because he had forsaken the LORD, the God of his fathers.  
2X2111 Moreover, he made high places in the hill country of Judah and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom and made Judah go astray.  
2X2112 And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah,  
2X2113 but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have enticed Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom, as the house of Ahab led Israel into whoredom, and also you have killed your brothers, of your father’s house, who were better than you,  
2X2114 behold, the LORD will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,  
2X2115 and you yourself will have a severe sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the disease, day by day.’”  
2X2116 And the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the anger of the Philistines and of the Arabians who are near the Ethiopians.  
2X2117 And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions they found that belonged to the king’s house, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest son.  
2X2118 And after all this the LORD struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.  
2X2119 In the course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony. His people made no fire in his honor, like the fires made for his fathers.  
2X2120 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one’s regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.  
2X2201 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.  
2X2202 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.  
2X2203 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly.  
2X2204 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done. For after the death of his father they were his counselors, to his undoing.  
2X2205 He even followed their counsel and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to make war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead. And the Syrians wounded Joram,  
2X2206 and he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that he had received at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was wounded.  
2X2207 But it was ordained by God that the downfall of Ahaziah should come about through his going to visit Joram. For when he came there, he went out with Jehoram to meet Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.  
2X2208 And when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he met the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers, who attended Ahaziah, and he killed them.  
2X2209 He searched for Ahaziah, and he was captured while hiding in Samaria, and he was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” And the house of Ahaziah had no one able to rule the kingdom.  
2X2210 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family of the house of Judah.  
2X2211 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were about to be put to death, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and wife of Jehoiada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah, so that she did not put him to death.  
2X2212 And he remained with them six years, hidden in the house of God, while Athaliah reigned over the land.  
2X2301 But in the seventh year Jehoiada took courage and entered into a covenant with the commanders of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri.  
2X2302 And they went about through Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.  
2X2303 And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And Jehoiada said to them, “Behold, the king’s son! Let him reign, as the LORD spoke concerning the sons of David.  
2X2304 This is the thing that you shall do: of you priests and Levites who come off duty on the Sabbath, one third shall be gatekeepers,  
2X2305 and one third shall be at the king’s house and one third at the Gate of the Foundation. And all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.  
2X2306 Let no one enter the house of the LORD except the priests and ministering Levites. They may enter, for they are holy, but all the people shall keep the charge of the LORD.  
2X2307 The Levites shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever enters the house shall be put to death. Be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out.”  
2X2308 The Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and they each brought his men, who were to go off duty on the Sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the Sabbath, for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the divisions.  
2X2309 And Jehoiada the priest gave to the captains the spears and the large and small shields that had been King David’s, which were in the house of God.  
2X2310 And he set all the people as a guard for the king, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house.  
2X2311 Then they brought out the king’s son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king, and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king.”  
2X2312 When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she went into the house of the LORD to the people.  
2X2313 And when she looked, there was the king standing by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets, and the singers with their musical instruments leading in the celebration. And Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, “Treason! Treason!”  
2X2314 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains who were set over the army, saying to them, “Bring her out between the ranks, and anyone who follows her is to be put to death with the sword.” For the priest said, “Do not put her to death in the house of the LORD.”  
2X2315 So they laid hands on her, and she went into the entrance of the horse gate of the king’s house, and they put her to death there.  
2X2316 And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king that they should be the LORD’s people.  
2X2317 Then all the people went to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.  
2X2318 And Jehoiada posted watchmen for the house of the LORD under the direction of the Levitical priests and the Levites whom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the LORD, to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.  
2X2319 He stationed the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD so that no one should enter who was in any way unclean.  
2X2320 And he took the captains, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD, marching through the upper gate to the king’s house. And they set the king on the royal throne.  
2X2321 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been put to death with the sword.  
2X2401 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.  
2X2402 And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.  
2X2403 Jehoiada got for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.  
2X2404 After this Joash decided to restore the house of the LORD.  
2X2405 And he gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that you act quickly.” But the Levites did not act quickly.  
2X2406 So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the congregation of Israel for the tent of testimony?”  
2X2407 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God, and had also used all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD for the Baals.  
2X2408 So the king commanded, and they made a chest and set it outside the gate of the house of the LORD.  
2X2409 And proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to bring in for the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.  
2X2410 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced and brought their tax and dropped it into the chest until they had finished.  
2X2411 And whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the Levites, when they saw that there was much money in it, the king’s secretary and the officer of the chief priest would come and empty the chest and take it and return it to its place. Thus they did day after day, and collected money in abundance.  
2X2412 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who had charge of the work of the house of the LORD, and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD.  
2X2413 So those who were engaged in the work labored, and the repairing went forward in their hands, and they restored the house of God to its proper condition and strengthened it.  
2X2414 And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made utensils for the house of the LORD, both for the service and for the burnt offerings, and dishes for incense and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD regularly all the days of Jehoiada.  
2X2415 But Jehoiada grew old and full of days, and died. He was 130 years old at his death.  
2X2416 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.  
2X2417 Now after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them.  
2X2418 And they abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.  
2X2419 Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the LORD. These testified against them, but they would not pay attention.  
2X2420 Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you break the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has forsaken you.’”  
2X2421 But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the LORD.  
2X2422 Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, “May the LORD see and avenge!”  
2X2423 At the end of the year the army of the Syrians came up against Joash. They came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.  
2X2424 Though the army of the Syrians had come with few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army, because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. Thus they executed judgment on Joash.  
2X2425 When they had departed from him, leaving him severely wounded, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.  
2X2426 Those who conspired against him were Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonite, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabite.  
2X2427 Accounts of his sons and of the many oracles against him and of the rebuilding of the house of God are written in the Story of the Book of the Kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place.  
2X2501 Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty- nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.  
2X2502 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, yet not with a whole heart.  
2X2503 And as soon as the royal power was firmly his, he killed his servants who had struck down the king his father.  
2X2504 But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, “Fathers shall not die because of their children, nor children die because of their fathers, but each one shall die for his own sin.”  
2X2505 Then Amaziah assembled the men of Judah and set them by fathers’ houses under commanders of thousands and of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He mustered those twenty years old and upward, and found that they were 300,000 choice men, fit for war, able to handle spear and shield.  
2X2506 He hired also 100,000 mighty men of valor from Israel for 100 talents of silver.  
2X2507 But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel, with all these Ephraimites.  
2X2508 But go, act, be strong for the battle. Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy? For God has power to help or to cast down.”  
2X2509 And Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do about the hundred talents that I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “The LORD is able to give you much more than this.”  
2X2510 Then Amaziah discharged the army that had come to him from Ephraim to go home again. And they became very angry with Judah and returned home in fierce anger.  
2X2511 But Amaziah took courage and led out his people and went to the Valley of Salt and struck down 10,000 men of Seir.  
2X2512 The men of Judah captured another 10,000 alive and took them to the top of a rock and threw them down from the top of the rock, and they were all dashed to pieces.  
2X2513 But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 people in them and took much spoil.  
2X2514 After Amaziah came from striking down the Edomites, he brought the gods of the men of Seir and set them up as his gods and worshiped them, making offerings to them.  
2X2515 Therefore the LORD was angry with Amaziah and sent to him a prophet, who said to him, “Why have you sought the gods of a people who did not deliver their own people from your hand?”  
2X2516 But as he was speaking, the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”  
2X2517 Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”  
2X2518 And Joash the king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.  
2X2519 You say, ‘See, I have struck down Edom,’ and your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. But now stay at home. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”  
2X2520 But Amaziah would not listen, for it was of God, in order that he might give them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought the gods of Edom.  
2X2521 So Joash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.  
2X2522 And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his home.  
2X2523 And Joash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for 400 cubits, from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate.  
2X2524 And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God, in the care of Obed-edom. He seized also the treasuries of the king’s house, also hostages, and he returned to Samaria.  
2X2525 Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.  
2X2526 Now the rest of the deeds of Amaziah, from first to last, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel?  
2X2527 From the time when he turned away from the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.  
2X2528 And they brought him upon horses, and he was buried with his fathers in the city of David.  
2X2601 And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.  
2X2602 He built Eloth and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.  
2X2603 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.  
2X2604 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.  
2X2605 He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.  
2X2606 He went out and made war against the Philistines and broke through the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod, and he built cities in the territory of Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.  
2X2607 God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians who lived in Gurbaal and against the Meunites.  
2X2608 The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread even to the border of Egypt, for he became very strong.  
2X2609 Moreover, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate and at the Angle, and fortified them.  
2X2610 And he built towers in the wilderness and cut out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.  
2X2611 Moreover, Uzziah had an army of soldiers, fit for war, in divisions according to the numbers in the muster made by Jeiel the secretary and Maaseiah the officer, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king’s commanders.  
2X2612 The whole number of the heads of fathers’ houses of mighty men of valor was 2,600.  
2X2613 Under their command was an army of 307,500, who could make war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.  
2X2614 And Uzziah prepared for all the army shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.  
2X2615 In Jerusalem he made machines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.  
2X2616 But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the LORD his God and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.  
2X2617 But Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty priests of the LORD who were men of valor,  
2X2618 and they withstood King Uzziah and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the LORD God.”  
2X2619 Then Uzziah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and when he became angry with the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead in the presence of the priests in the house of the LORD, by the altar of incense.  
2X2620 And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead! And they rushed him out quickly, and he himself hurried to go out, because the LORD had struck him.  
2X2621 And King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the LORD. And Jotham his son was over the king’s household, governing the people of the land.  
2X2622 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, from first to last, Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz wrote.  
2X2623 And Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the burial field that belonged to the kings, for they said, “He is a leper.” And Jotham his son reigned in his place.  
2X2701 Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.  
2X2702 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD according to all that his father Uzziah had done, except he did not enter the temple of the LORD. But the people still followed corrupt practices.  
2X2703 He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD and did much building on the wall of Ophel.  
2X2704 Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and forts and towers on the wooded hills.  
2X2705 He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year 100 talents of silver, and 10,000 cors of wheat and 10,000 of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years.  
2X2706 So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.  
2X2707 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.  
2X2708 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.  
2X2709 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.  
2X2801 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done,  
2X2802 but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made metal images for the Baals,  
2X2803 and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.  
2X2804 And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.  
2X2805 Therefore the LORD his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force.  
2X2806 For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed 120,000 from Judah in one day, all of them men of valor, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.  
2X2807 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king’s son and Azrikam the commander of the palace and Elkanah the next in authority to the king.  
2X2808 The men of Israel took captive 200,000 of their relatives, women, sons, and daughters. They also took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria.  
2X2809 But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded, and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Behold, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have killed them in a rage that has reached up to heaven.  
2X2810 And now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. Have you not sins of your own against the LORD your God?  
2X2811 Now hear me, and send back the captives from your relatives whom you have taken, for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.”  
2X2812 Certain chiefs also of the men of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who were coming from the war  
2X2813 and said to them, “You shall not bring the captives in here, for you propose to bring upon us guilt against the LORD in addition to our present sins and guilt. For our guilt is already great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”  
2X2814 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.  
2X2815 And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all who were naked among them. They clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them, and carrying all the feeble among them on donkeys, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.  
2X2816 At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria for help.  
2X2817 For the Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried away captives.  
2X2818 And the Philistines had made raids on the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there.  
2X2819 For the LORD humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had made Judah act sinfully and had been very unfaithful to the LORD.  
2X2820 So Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.  
2X2821 For Ahaz took a portion from the house of the LORD and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria, but it did not help him.  
2X2822 In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the LORD—this same King Ahaz.  
2X2823 For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.  
2X2824 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and he shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.  
2X2825 In every city of Judah he made high places to make offerings to other gods, provoking to anger the LORD, the God of his fathers.  
2X2826 Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.  
2X2827 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.  
2X2901 Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty- nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah.  
2X2902 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.  
2X2903 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them.  
2X2904 He brought in the priests and the Levites and assembled them in the square on the east  
2X2905 and said to them, “Hear me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place.  
2X2906 For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They have forsaken him and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD and turned their backs.  
2X2907 They also shut the doors of the vestibule and put out the lamps and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the Holy Place to the God of Israel.  
2X2908 Therefore the wrath of the LORD came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.  
2X2909 For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.  
2X2910 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, in order that his fierce anger may turn away from us.  
2X2911 My sons, do not now be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him and to be his ministers and make offerings to him.”  
2X2912 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;  
2X2913 and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;  
2X2914 and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.  
2X2915 They gathered their brothers and consecrated themselves and went in as the king had commanded, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.  
2X2916 The priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and they brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it and carried it out to the brook Kidron.  
2X2917 They began to consecrate on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of the LORD. Then for eight days they consecrated the house of the LORD, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.  
2X2918 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king and said, “We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the table for the showbread and all its utensils.  
2X2919 All the utensils that King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he was faithless, we have made ready and consecrated, and behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.”  
2X2920 Then Hezekiah the king rose early and gathered the officials of the city and went up to the house of the LORD.  
2X2921 And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. And he commanded the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD.  
2X2922 So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests received the blood and threw it against the altar. And they slaughtered the rams, and their blood was thrown against the altar. And they slaughtered the lambs, and their blood was thrown against the altar.  
2X2923 Then the goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them,  
2X2924 and the priests slaughtered them and made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel. For the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.  
2X2925 And he stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the king’s seer and of Nathan the prophet, for the commandment was from the LORD through his prophets.  
2X2926 The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.  
2X2927 Then Hezekiah commanded that the burnt offering be offered on the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song to the LORD began also, and the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.  
2X2928 The whole assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished.  
2X2929 When the offering was finished, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.  
2X2930 And Hezekiah the king and the officials commanded the Levites to sing praises to the LORD with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed down and worshiped.  
2X2931 Then Hezekiah said, “You have now consecrated yourselves to the LORD. Come near; bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.” And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all who were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.  
2X2932 The number of the burnt offerings that the assembly brought was 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.  
2X2933 And the consecrated offerings were 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep.  
2X2934 But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had consecrated themselves, their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was finished—for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in consecrating themselves.  
2X2935 Besides the great number of burnt offerings, there was the fat of the peace offerings, and there were the drink offerings for the burnt offerings. Thus the service of the house of the LORD was restored.  
2X2936 And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because God had provided for the people, for the thing came about suddenly.  
2X3001 Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem to keep the Passover to the LORD, the God of Israel.  
2X3002 For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the Passover in the second month—  
2X3003 for they could not keep it at that time because the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient number, nor had the people assembled in Jerusalem—  
2X3004 and the plan seemed right to the king and all the assembly.  
2X3005 So they decreed to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come and keep the Passover to the LORD, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it as often as prescribed.  
2X3006 So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, “O people of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.  
2X3007 Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the LORD God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.  
2X3008 Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.  
2X3009 For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”  
2X3010 So the couriers went from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.  
2X3011 However, some men of Asher, of Manasseh, and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.  
2X3012 The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the LORD.  
2X3013 And many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great assembly.  
2X3014 They set to work and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away and threw into the brook Kidron.  
2X3015 And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, so that they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.  
2X3016 They took their accustomed posts according to the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests threw the blood that they received from the hand of the Levites.  
2X3017 For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves. Therefore the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for everyone who was not clean, to consecrate it to the LORD.  
2X3018 For a majority of the people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good LORD pardon everyone  
2X3019 who sets his heart to seek God, the LORD, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary’s rules of cleanness.”  
2X3020 And the LORD heard Hezekiah and healed the people.  
2X3021 And the people of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness, and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with all their might to the LORD.  
2X3022 And Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good skill in the service of the LORD. So they ate the food of the festival for seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the LORD, the God of their fathers.  
2X3023 Then the whole assembly agreed together to keep the feast for another seven days. So they kept it for another seven days with gladness.  
2X3024 For Hezekiah king of Judah gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep for offerings, and the princes gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. And the priests consecrated themselves in great numbers.  
2X3025 The whole assembly of Judah, and the priests and the Levites, and the whole assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners who came out of the land of Israel, and the sojourners who lived in Judah, rejoiced.  
2X3026 So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.  
2X3027 Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy habitation in heaven.  
2X3101 Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession.  
2X3102 And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, division by division, each according to his service, the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and peace offerings, to minister in the gates of the camp of the LORD and to give thanks and praise.  
2X3103 The contribution of the king from his own possessions was for the burnt offerings: the burnt offerings of morning and evening, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the appointed feasts, as it is written in the Law of the LORD.  
2X3104 And he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the Law of the LORD.  
2X3105 As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field. And they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything.  
2X3106 And the people of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of the dedicated things that had been dedicated to the LORD their God, and laid them in heaps.  
2X3107 In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.  
2X3108 When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD and his people Israel.  
2X3109 And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps.  
2X3110 Azariah the chief priest, who was of the house of Zadok, answered him, “Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the LORD, we have eaten and had enough and have plenty left, for the LORD has blessed his people, so that we have this large amount left.”  
2X3111 Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD, and they prepared them.  
2X3112 And they faithfully brought in the contributions, the tithes, and the dedicated things. The chief officer in charge of them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother as second,  
2X3113 while Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers assisting Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the chief officer of the house of God.  
2X3114 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, keeper of the east gate, was over the freewill offerings to God, to apportion the contribution reserved for the LORD and the most holy offerings.  
2X3115 Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah were faithfully assisting him in the cities of the priests, to distribute the portions to their brothers, old and young alike, by divisions,  
2X3116 except those enrolled by genealogy, males from three years old and upward—all who entered the house of the LORD as the duty of each day required—for their service according to their offices, by their divisions.  
2X3117 The enrollment of the priests was according to their fathers’ houses; that of the Levites from twenty years old and upward was according to their offices, by their divisions.  
2X3118 They were enrolled with all their little children, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, the whole assembly, for they were faithful in keeping themselves holy.  
2X3119 And for the sons of Aaron, the priests, who were in the fields of common land belonging to their cities, there were men in the several cities who were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among the priests and to everyone among the Levites who was enrolled.  
2X3120 Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and he did what was good and right and faithful before the LORD his God.  
2X3121 And every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God and in accordance with the law and the commandments, seeking his God, he did with all his heart, and prospered.  
2X3201 After these things and these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah and encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them for himself.  
2X3202 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and intended to fight against Jerusalem,  
2X3203 he planned with his officers and his mighty men to stop the water of the springs that were outside the city; and they helped him.  
2X3204 A great many people were gathered, and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?”  
2X3205 He set to work resolutely and built up all the wall that was broken down and raised towers upon it, and outside it he built another wall, and he strengthened the Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance.  
2X3206 And he set combat commanders over the people and gathered them together to him in the square at the gate of the city and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,  
2X3207 “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or dismayed before the king of Assyria and all the horde that is with him, for there are more with us than with him.  
2X3208 With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.  
2X3209 After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria, who was besieging Lachish with all his forces, sent his servants to Jerusalem to Hezekiah king of Judah and to all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem, saying,  
2X3210 “Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, ‘On what are you trusting, that you endure the siege in Jerusalem?  
2X3211 Is not Hezekiah misleading you, that he may give you over to die by famine and by thirst, when he tells you, “The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria”?  
2X3212 Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, “Before one altar you shall worship, and on it you shall burn your sacrifices”?  
2X3213 Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand?  
2X3214 Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?  
2X3215 Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!’”  
2X3216 And his servants said still more against the LORD God and against his servant Hezekiah.  
2X3217 And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the LORD, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand.”  
2X3218 And they shouted it with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them, in order that they might take the city.  
2X3219 And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.  
2X3220 Then Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed because of this and cried to heaven.  
2X3221 And the LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, some of his own sons struck him down there with the sword.  
2X3222 So the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all his enemies, and he provided for them on every side.  
2X3223 And many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from that time onward.  
2X3224 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death, and he prayed to the LORD, and he answered him and gave him a sign.  
2X3225 But Hezekiah did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem.  
2X3226 But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.  
2X3227 And Hezekiah had very great riches and honor, and he made for himself treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of costly vessels;  
2X3228 storehouses also for the yield of grain, wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of cattle, and sheepfolds.  
2X3229 He likewise provided cities for himself, and flocks and herds in abundance, for God had given him very great possessions.  
2X3230 This same Hezekiah closed the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.  
2X3231 And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.  
2X3232 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.  
2X3233 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the upper part of the tombs of the sons of David, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his place.  
2X3301 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.  
2X3302 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.  
2X3303 For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.  
2X3304 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.”  
2X3305 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.  
2X3306 And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.  
2X3307 And the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever,  
2X3308 and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land that I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the rules given through Moses.”  
2X3309 Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.  
2X3310 The LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention.  
2X3311 Therefore the LORD brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.  
2X3312 And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.  
2X3313 He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.  
2X3314 Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into the Fish Gate, and carried it around Ophel, and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah.  
2X3315 And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city.  
2X3316 He also restored the altar of the LORD and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and he commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.  
2X3317 Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.  
2X3318 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, behold, they are in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.  
2X3319 And his prayer, and how God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.  
2X3320 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house, and Amon his son reigned in his place.  
2X3321 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.  
2X3322 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done. Amon sacrificed to all the images that Manasseh his father had made, and served them.  
2X3323 And he did not humble himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more.  
2X3324 And his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his house.  
2X3325 But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon. And the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.  
2X3401 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.  
2X3402 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.  
2X3403 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.  
2X3404 And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.  
2X3405 He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.  
2X3406 And in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around,  
2X3407 he broke down the altars and beat the Asherim and the images into powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.  
2X3408 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had cleansed the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.  
2X3409 They came to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had collected from Manasseh and Ephraim and from all the remnant of Israel and from all Judah and Benjamin and from the inhabitants of Jerusalem.  
2X3410 And they gave it to the workmen who were working in the house of the LORD. And the workmen who were working in the house of the LORD gave it for repairing and restoring the house.  
2X3411 They gave it to the carpenters and the builders to buy quarried stone, and timber for binders and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had let go to ruin.  
2X3412 And the men did the work faithfully. Over them were set Jahath and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to have oversight. The Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music,  
2X3413 were over the burden-bearers and directed all who did work in every kind of service, and some of the Levites were scribes and officials and gatekeepers.  
2X3414 While they were bringing out the money that had been brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the LORD given through Moses.  
2X3415 Then Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD.” And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan.  
2X3416 Shaphan brought the book to the king, and further reported to the king, “All that was committed to your servants they are doing.  
2X3417 They have emptied out the money that was found in the house of the LORD and have given it into the hand of the overseers and the workmen.”  
2X3418 Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read from it before the king.  
2X3419 And when the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his clothes.  
2X3420 And the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,  
2X3421 “Go, inquire of the LORD for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do according to all that is written in this book.”  
2X3422 So Hilkiah and those whom the king had sent went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter) and spoke to her to that effect.  
2X3423 And she said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,  
2X3424 Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book that was read before the king of Judah.  
2X3425 Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands, therefore my wrath will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.  
2X3426 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Regarding the words that you have heard,  
2X3427 because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the LORD.  
2X3428 Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place and its inhabitants.’” And they brought back word to the king.  
2X3429 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.  
2X3430 And the king went up to the house of the LORD, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites, all the people both great and small. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.  
2X3431 And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.  
2X3432 Then he made all who were present in Jerusalem and in Benjamin join in it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.  
2X3433 And Josiah took away all the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel and made all who were present in Israel serve the LORD their God. All his days they did not turn away from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.  
2X3501 Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem. And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month.  
2X3502 He appointed the priests to their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.  
2X3503 And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the LORD, “Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. You need not carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.  
2X3504 Prepare yourselves according to your fathers’ houses by your divisions, as prescribed in the writing of David king of Israel and the document of Solomon his son.  
2X3505 And stand in the Holy Place according to the groupings of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the lay people, and according to the division of the Levites by fathers’ household.  
2X3506 And slaughter the Passover lamb, and consecrate yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of the LORD by Moses.”  
2X3507 Then Josiah contributed to the lay people, as Passover offerings for all who were present, lambs and young goats from the flock to the number of 30,000, and 3,000 bulls; these were from the king’s possessions.  
2X3508 And his officials contributed willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the chief officers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings 2,600 Passover lambs and 300 bulls.  
2X3509 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings 5,000 lambs and young goats and 500 bulls.  
2X3510 When the service had been prepared for, the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.  
2X3511 And they slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests threw the blood that they received from them while the Levites flayed the sacrifices.  
2X3512 And they set aside the burnt offerings that they might distribute them according to the groupings of the fathers’ houses of the lay people, to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the Book of Moses. And so they did with the bulls.  
2X3513 And they roasted the Passover lamb with fire according to the rule; and they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the lay people.  
2X3514 And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burnt offerings and the fat parts until night; so the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.  
2X3515 The singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers were at each gate. They did not need to depart from their service, for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.  
2X3516 So all the service of the LORD was prepared that day, to keep the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josiah.  
2X3517 And the people of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.  
2X3518 No Passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover as was kept by Josiah, and the priests and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.  
2X3519 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was kept.  
2X3520 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him.  
2X3521 But he sent envoys to him, saying, “What have we to do with each other, king of Judah? I am not coming against you this day, but against the house with which I am at war. And God has commanded me to hurry. Cease opposing God, who is with me, lest he destroy you.”  
2X3522 Nevertheless, Josiah did not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to fight in the plain of Megiddo.  
2X3523 And the archers shot King Josiah. And the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.”  
2X3524 So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.  
2X3525 Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a rule in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.  
2X3526 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds according to what is written in the Law of the LORD,  
2X3527 and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.  
2X3601 The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.  
2X3602 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.  
2X3603 Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.  
2X3604 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz his brother and carried him to Egypt.  
2X3605 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.  
2X3606 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.  
2X3607 Nebuchadnezzar also carried part of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon and put them in his palace in Babylon.  
2X3608 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and the abominations that he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.  
2X3609 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.  
2X3610 In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the LORD, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.  
2X3611 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.  
2X3612 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the LORD.  
2X3613 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.  
2X3614 All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that he had made holy in Jerusalem.  
2X3615 The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.  
2X3616 But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against his people, until there was no remedy.  
2X3617 Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.  
2X3618 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.  
2X3619 And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels.  
2X3620 He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia,  
2X3621 to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.  
2X3622 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:  
2X3623 “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the LORD his God be with him. Let him go up.’”  
Er0101 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:  
Er0102 “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.  
Er0103 Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the LORD, the God of Israel—he is the God who is in Jerusalem.  
Er0104 And let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.”  
Er0105 Then rose up the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem.  
Er0106 And all who were about them aided them with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with beasts, and with costly wares, besides all that was freely offered.  
Er0107 Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods.  
Er0108 Cyrus king of Persia brought these out in the charge of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.  
Er0109 And this was the number of them: 30 basins of gold, 1,000 basins of silver, 29 censers,  
Er0110 30 bowls of gold, 410 bowls of silver, and 1,000 other vessels;  
Er0111 all the vessels of gold and of silver were 5,400. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylonia to Jerusalem.  
Er0201 Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.  
Er0202 They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:  
Er0203 the sons of Parosh, 2,172.  
Er0204 The sons of Shephatiah, 372.  
Er0205 The sons of Arah, 775.  
Er0206 The sons of Pahath-moab, namely the sons of Jeshua and Joab, 2,812.  
Er0207 The sons of Elam, 1,254.  
Er0208 The sons of Zattu, 945.  
Er0209   The sons of Zaccai, 760.   
Er0210   The sons of Bani, 642.   
Er0211 The sons of Bebai, 623.  
Er0212 The sons of Azgad, 1,222.  
Er0213 The sons of Adonikam, 666.  
Er0214 The sons of Bigvai, 2,056.  
Er0215 The sons of Adin, 454.  
Er0216 The sons of Ater, namely of Hezekiah, 98.  
Er0217 The sons of Bezai, 323.  
Er0218   The sons of Jorah, 112.   
Er0219 The sons of Hashum, 223.  
Er0220 The sons of Gibbar, 95.  
Er0221 The sons of Bethlehem, 123.  
Er0222 The men of Netophah, 56.  
Er0223 The men of Anathoth, 128.  
Er0224 The sons of Azmaveth, 42.  
Er0225 The sons of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743.  
Er0226 The sons of Ramah and Geba, 621.  
Er0227 The men of Michmas, 122.  
Er0228 The men of Bethel and Ai, 223.  
Er0229 The sons of Nebo, 52.  
Er0230   The sons of Magbish, 156.   
Er0231 The sons of the other Elam, 1,254.  
Er0232 The sons of Harim, 320.  
Er0233 The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 725.  
Er0234 The sons of Jericho, 345.  
Er0235 The sons of Senaah, 3,630.  
Er0236 The priests: the sons of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, 973.  
Er0237 The sons of Immer, 1,052.  
Er0238 The sons of Pashhur, 1,247.  
Er0239 The sons of Harim, 1,017.  
Er0240 The Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodaviah, 74.  
Er0241 The singers: the sons of Asaph, 128.  
Er0242 The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai, in all 139.  
Er0243 The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth,  
Er0244 the sons of Keros, the sons of Siaha, the sons of Padon,  
Er0245 the sons of Lebanah, the sons of Hagabah, the sons of Akkub,  
Er0246 the sons of Hagab, the sons of Shamlai, the sons of Hanan,  
Er0247 the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar, the sons of Reaiah,  
Er0248 the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda, the sons of Gazzam,  
Er0249 the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah, the sons of Besai,  
Er0250 the sons of Asnah, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephisim,  
Er0251 the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur,  
Er0252 the sons of Bazluth, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha,  
Er0253 the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah,  
Er0254 the sons of Neziah, and the sons of Hatipha.  
Er0255 The sons of Solomon’s servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Hassophereth, the sons of Peruda,  
Er0256 the sons of Jaalah, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel,  
Er0257 the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, and the sons of Ami.  
Er0258 All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants were 392.  
Er0259 The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, though they could not prove their fathers’ houses or their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:  
Er0260 the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, and the sons of Nekoda, 652.  
Er0261 Also, of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, and the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name).  
Er0262 These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but they were not found there, and so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.  
Er0263 The governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food, until there should be a priest to consult Urim and Thummim.  
Er0264 The whole assembly together was 42,360,  
Er0265 besides their male and female servants, of whom there were 7,337, and they had 200 male and female singers.  
Er0266 Their horses were 736, their mules were 245,  
Er0267 their camels were 435, and their donkeys were 6,720.  
Er0268 Some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the house of God, to erect it on its site.  
Er0269 According to their ability they gave to the treasury of the work 61,000 darics of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priests’ garments.  
Er0270 Now the priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their towns, and all the rest of Israel in their towns.  
Er0301 When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.  
Er0302 Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.  
Er0303 They set the altar in its place, for fear was on them because of the peoples of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, burnt offerings morning and evening.  
Er0304 And they kept the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required,  
Er0305 and after that the regular burnt offerings, the offerings at the new moon and at all the appointed feasts of the LORD, and the offerings of everyone who made a freewill offering to the LORD.  
Er0306 From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.  
Er0307 So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus king of Persia.  
Er0308 Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to supervise the work of the house of the LORD.  
Er0309 And Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together supervised the workmen in the house of God, along with the sons of Henadad and the Levites, their sons and brothers.  
Er0310 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel.  
Er0311 And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel.” And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.  
Er0312 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy,  
Er0313 so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away.  
Er0401 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the LORD, the God of Israel,  
Er0402 they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria who brought us here.”  
Er0403 But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ houses in Israel said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we alone will build to the LORD, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”  
Er0404 Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build  
Er0405 and bribed counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.  
Er0406 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.  
Er0407 In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam and Mithredath and Tabeel and the rest of their associates wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia. The letter was written in Aramaic and translated.  
Er0408 Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows:  
Er0409 Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the governors, the officials, the Persians, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites,  
Er0410 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River.  
Er0411 (This is a copy of the letter that they sent.) “To Artaxerxes the king: Your servants, the men of the province Beyond the River, send greeting. And now  
Er0412 be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.  
Er0413 Now be it known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and the royal revenue will be impaired.  
Er0414 Now because we eat the salt of the palace and it is not fitting for us to witness the king’s dishonor, therefore we send and inform the king,  
Er0415 in order that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will find in the book of the records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and that sedition was stirred up in it from of old. That was why this city was laid waste.  
Er0416 We make known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls finished, you will then have no possession in the province Beyond the River.”  
Er0417 The king sent an answer: “To Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe and the rest of their associates who live in Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River, greeting. And now  
Er0418 the letter that you sent to us has been plainly read before me.  
Er0419 And I made a decree, and search has been made, and it has been found that this city from of old has risen against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made in it.  
Er0420 And mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid.  
Er0421 Therefore make a decree that these men be made to cease, and that this city be not rebuilt, until a decree is made by me.  
Er0422 And take care not to be slack in this matter. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the king?”  
Er0423 Then, when the copy of King Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their associates, they went in haste to the Jews at Jerusalem and by force and power made them cease.  
Er0424 Then the work on the house of God that is in Jerusalem stopped, and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.  
Er0501 Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.  
Er0502 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak arose and began to rebuild the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and the prophets of God were with them, supporting them.  
Er0503 At the same time Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and Shethar-bozenai and their associates came to them and spoke to them thus: “Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?”  
Er0504 They also asked them this: “What are the names of the men who are building this building?”  
Er0505 But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report should reach Darius and then an answer be returned by letter concerning it.  
Er0506 This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and Shethar-bozenai and his associates, the governors who were in the province Beyond the River, sent to Darius the king.  
Er0507 They sent him a report, in which was written as follows: “To Darius the king, all peace.  
Er0508 Be it known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. It is being built with huge stones, and timber is laid in the walls. This work goes on diligently and prospers in their hands.  
Er0509 Then we asked those elders and spoke to them thus: ‘Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?’  
Er0510 We also asked them their names, for your information, that we might write down the names of their leaders.  
Er0511 And this was their reply to us: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.  
Er0512 But because our fathers had angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.  
Er0513 However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree that this house of God should be rebuilt.  
Er0514 And the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple that was in Jerusalem and brought into the temple of Babylon, these Cyrus the king took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;  
Er0515 and he said to him, “Take these vessels, go and put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its site.”  
Er0516 Then this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and from that time until now it has been in building, and it is not yet finished.’  
Er0517 Therefore, if it seems good to the king, let search be made in the royal archives there in Babylon, to see whether a decree was issued by Cyrus the king for the rebuilding of this house of God in Jerusalem. And let the king send us his pleasure in this matter.”  
Er0601 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in Babylonia, in the house of the archives where the documents were stored.  
Er0602 And in Ecbatana, the citadel that is in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: “A record.  
Er0603 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king issued a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be rebuilt, the place where sacrifices were offered, and let its foundations be retained. Its height shall be sixty cubits and its breadth sixty cubits,  
Er0604 with three layers of great stones and one layer of timber. Let the cost be paid from the royal treasury.  
Er0605 And also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that is in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought back to the temple that is in Jerusalem, each to its place. You shall put them in the house of God.”  
Er0606 “Now therefore, Tattenai, governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and your associates the governors who are in the province Beyond the River, keep away.  
Er0607 Let the work on this house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site.  
Er0608 Moreover, I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God. The cost is to be paid to these men in full and without delay from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province from Beyond the River.  
Er0609 And whatever is needed—bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests at Jerusalem require—let that be given to them day by day without fail,  
Er0610 that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.  
Er0611 Also I make a decree that if anyone alters this edict, a beam shall be pulled out of his house, and he shall be impaled on it, and his house shall be made a dunghill.  
Er0612 May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who shall put out a hand to alter this, or to destroy this house of God that is in Jerusalem. I Darius make a decree; let it be done with all diligence.”  
Er0613 Then, according to the word sent by Darius the king, Tattenai, the governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates did with all diligence what Darius the king had ordered.  
Er0614 And the elders of the Jews built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They finished their building by decree of the God of Israel and by decree of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia;  
Er0615 and this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.  
Er0616 And the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.  
Er0617 They offered at the dedication of this house of God 100 bulls, 200 rams, 400 lambs, and as a sin offering for all Israel 12 male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.  
Er0618 And they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their divisions, for the service of God at Jerusalem, as it is written in the Book of Moses.  
Er0619 On the fourteenth day of the first month, the returned exiles kept the Passover.  
Er0620 For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were clean. So they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves.  
Er0621 It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by every one who had joined them and separated himself from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.  
Er0622 And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the LORD had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.  
Er0701 Now after this, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah,  
Er0702 son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub,  
Er0703 son of Amariah, son of Azariah, son of Meraioth,  
Er0704 son of Zerahiah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki,  
Er0705 son of Abishua, son of Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the chief priest—  
Er0706 this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the LORD, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the LORD his God was on him.  
Er0707 And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king, some of the people of Israel, and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants.  
Er0708 And Ezra came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.  
Er0709 For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylonia, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was on him.  
Er0710 For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.  
Er0711 This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a man learned in matters of the commandments of the LORD and his statutes for Israel:  
Er0712 “Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven. Peace. And now  
Er0713 I make a decree that anyone of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom, who freely offers to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.  
Er0714 For you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God, which is in your hand,  
Er0715 and also to carry the silver and gold that the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,  
Er0716 with all the silver and gold that you shall find in the whole province of Babylonia, and with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests, vowed willingly for the house of their God that is in Jerusalem.  
Er0717 With this money, then, you shall with all diligence buy bulls, rams, and lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings, and you shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God that is in Jerusalem.  
Er0718 Whatever seems good to you and your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do, according to the will of your God.  
Er0719 The vessels that have been given you for the service of the house of your God, you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem.  
Er0720 And whatever else is required for the house of your God, which it falls to you to provide, you may provide it out of the king’s treasury.  
Er0721 “And I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers in the province Beyond the River: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, requires of you, let it be done with all diligence,  
Er0722 up to 100 talents of silver, 100 cors of wheat, 100 baths of wine, 100 baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.  
Er0723 Whatever is decreed by the God of heaven, let it be done in full for the house of the God of heaven, lest his wrath be against the realm of the king and his sons.  
Er0724 We also notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll on anyone of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.  
Er0725 “And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. And those who do not know them, you shall teach.  
Er0726 Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment.”  
Er0727 Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem,  
Er0728 and who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the LORD my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.  
Er0801 These are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:  
Er0802 Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of David, Hattush.  
Er0803 Of the sons of Shecaniah, who was of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah, with whom were registered 150 men.  
Er0804 Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him 200 men.  
Er0805 Of the sons of Zattu, Shecaniah the son of Jahaziel, and with him 300 men.  
Er0806 Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him 50 men.  
Er0807 Of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him 70 men.  
Er0808 Of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him 80 men.  
Er0809 Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him 218 men.  
Er0810 Of the sons of Bani, Shelomith the son of Josiphiah, and with him 160 men.  
Er0811 Of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah, the son of Bebai, and with him 28 men.  
Er0812 Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him 110 men.  
Er0813 Of the sons of Adonikam, those who came later, their names being Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah, and with them 60 men.  
Er0814 Of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zaccur, and with them 70 men.  
Er0815 I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we camped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi.  
Er0816 Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of insight,  
Er0817 and sent them to Iddo, the leading man at the place Casiphia, telling them what to say to Iddo and his brothers and the temple servants at the place Casiphia, namely, to send us ministers for the house of our God.  
Er0818 And by the good hand of our God on us, they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, son of Israel, namely Sherebiah with his sons and kinsmen, 18;  
Er0819 also Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, with his kinsmen and their sons, 20;  
Er0820 besides 220 of the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set apart to attend the Levites. These were all mentioned by name.  
Er0821 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.  
Er0822 For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, “The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.”  
Er0823 So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.  
Er0824 Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their kinsmen with them.  
Er0825 And I weighed out to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king and his counselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered.  
Er0826 I weighed out into their hand 650 talents of silver, and silver vessels worth 200 talents, and 100 talents of gold,  
Er0827 20 bowls of gold worth 1,000 darics, and two vessels of fine bright bronze as precious as gold.  
Er0828 And I said to them, “You are holy to the LORD, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers.  
Er0829 Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers’ houses in Israel at Jerusalem, within the chambers of the house of the LORD.”  
Er0830 So the priests and the Levites took over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God.  
Er0831 Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.  
Er0832 We came to Jerusalem, and there we remained three days.  
Er0833 On the fourth day, within the house of our God, the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed into the hands of Meremoth the priest, son of Uriah, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were the Levites, Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui.  
Er0834 The whole was counted and weighed, and the weight of everything was recorded.  
Er0835 At that time those who had come from captivity, the returned exiles, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy- seven lambs, and as a sin offering twelve male goats. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD.  
Er0836 They also delivered the king’s commissions to the king’s satraps and to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and they aided the people and the house of God.  
Er0901 After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.  
Er0902 For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.”  
Er0903 As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.  
Er0904 Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice.  
Er0905 And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God,  
Er0906 saying: “O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.  
Er0907 From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as it is today.  
Er0908 But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant and to give us a secure hold within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery.  
Er0909 For we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection in Judea and Jerusalem.  
Er0910 “And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,  
Er0911 which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness.  
Er0912 Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’  
Er0913 And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this,  
Er0914 shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?  
Er0915 O LORD, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this.”  
Er1001 While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.  
Er1002 And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: “We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.  
Er1003 Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law.  
Er1004 Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strong and do it.”  
Er1005 Then Ezra arose and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take an oath that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath.  
Er1006 Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.  
Er1007 And a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem,  
Er1008 and that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.  
Er1009 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.  
Er1010 And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.  
Er1011 Now then make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”  
Er1012 Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, “It is so; we must do as you have said.  
Er1013 But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a task for one day or for two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.  
Er1014 Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us.”  
Er1015 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supported them.  
Er1016 Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of fathers’ houses, according to their fathers’ houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter;  
Er1017 and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.  
Er1018 Now there were found some of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, some of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers.  
Er1019 They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.  
Er1020 Of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.  
Er1021 Of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah.  
Er1022 Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.  
Er1023 Of the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.  
Er1024 Of the singers: Eliashib. Of the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri.  
Er1025 And of Israel: of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Hashabiah, and Benaiah.  
Er1026 Of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah.  
Er1027 Of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza.  
Er1028 Of the sons of Bebai were Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai.  
Er1029 Of the sons of Bani were Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth.  
Er1030 Of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.  
Er1031 Of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,  
Er1032 Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah.  
Er1033 Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.  
Er1034 Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel,  
Er1035   Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,   
Er1036     Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,    
Er1037 Mattaniah, Mattenai, Jaasu.  
Er1038 Of the sons of Binnui: Shimei,  
Er1039 Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah,  
Er1040     Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,    
Er1041 Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah,  
Er1042 Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.  
Er1043 Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel, and Benaiah.  
Er1044 All these had married foreign women, and some of the women had even borne children.  
Ne0101 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the citadel,  
Ne0102 that Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah. And I asked them concerning the Jews who escaped, who had survived the exile, and concerning Jerusalem.  
Ne0103 And they said to me, “The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”  
Ne0104 As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.  
Ne0105 And I said, “O LORD God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,  
Ne0106 let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father’s house have sinned.  
Ne0107 We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses.  
Ne0108 Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples,  
Ne0109 but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’  
Ne0110 They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.  
Ne0111 O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cupbearer to the king.  
Ne0201 In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.  
Ne0202 And the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart.” Then I was very much afraid.  
Ne0203 I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”  
Ne0204 Then the king said to me, “What are you requesting?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.  
Ne0205 And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ graves, that I may rebuild it.”  
Ne0206 And the king said to me (the queen sitting beside him), “How long will you be gone, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me when I had given him a time.  
Ne0207 And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah,  
Ne0208 and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, for the good hand of my God was upon me.  
Ne0209 Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen.  
Ne0210 But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel.  
Ne0211 So I went to Jerusalem and was there three days.  
Ne0212 Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode.  
Ne0213 I went out by night by the Valley Gate to the Dragon Spring and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that were broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.  
Ne0214 Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal that was under me to pass.  
Ne0215 Then I went up in the night by the valley and inspected the wall, and I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.  
Ne0216 And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, and I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, and the rest who were to do the work.  
Ne0217 Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.”  
Ne0218 And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, “Let us rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.  
Ne0219 But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they jeered at us and despised us and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”  
Ne0220 Then I replied to them, “The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim in Jerusalem.”  
Ne0301 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel.  
Ne0302 And next to him the men of Jericho built. And next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.  
Ne0303 The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.  
Ne0304 And next to them Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired. And next to them Meshullam the son of Berechiah, son of Meshezabel repaired. And next to them Zadok the son of Baana repaired.  
Ne0305 And next to them the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles would not stoop to serve their Lord.  
Ne0306 Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the Gate of Yeshanah. They laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.  
Ne0307 And next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, the seat of the governor of the province Beyond the River.  
Ne0308 Next to them Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, repaired. Next to him Hananiah, one of the perfumers, repaired, and they restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.  
Ne0309 Next to them Rephaiah the son of Hur, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired.  
Ne0310 Next to them Jedaiah the son of Harumaph repaired opposite his house. And next to him Hattush the son of Hashabneiah repaired.  
Ne0311 Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab repaired another section and the Tower of the Ovens.  
Ne0312 Next to him Shallum the son of Hallohesh, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired, he and his daughters.  
Ne0313 Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall, as far as the Dung Gate.  
Ne0314 Malchijah the son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.  
Ne0315 And Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars. And he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king’s garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.  
Ne0316 After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, repaired to a point opposite the tombs of David, as far as the artificial pool, and as far as the house of the mighty men.  
Ne0317 After him the Levites repaired: Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him Hashabiah, ruler of half the district of Keilah, repaired for his district.  
Ne0318 After him their brothers repaired: Bavvai the son of Henadad, ruler of half the district of Keilah.  
Ne0319 Next to him Ezer the son of Jeshua, ruler of Mizpah, repaired another section opposite the ascent to the armory at the buttress.  
Ne0320 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai repaired another section from the buttress to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.  
Ne0321 After him Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired another section from the door of the house of Eliashib to the end of the house of Eliashib.  
Ne0322 After him the priests, the men of the surrounding area, repaired.  
Ne0323 After them Benjamin and Hasshub repaired opposite their house. After them Azariah the son of Maaseiah, son of Ananiah repaired beside his own house.  
Ne0324 After him Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another section, from the house of Azariah to the buttress and to the corner.  
Ne0325 Palal the son of Uzai repaired opposite the buttress and the tower projecting from the upper house of the king at the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh  
Ne0326 and the temple servants living on Ophel repaired to a point opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower.  
Ne0327 After him the Tekoites repaired another section opposite the great projecting tower as far as the wall of Ophel.  
Ne0328 Above the Horse Gate the priests repaired, each one opposite his own house.  
Ne0329 After them Zadok the son of Immer repaired opposite his own house. After him Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, repaired.  
Ne0330 After him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph repaired another section. After him Meshullam the son of Berechiah repaired opposite his chamber.  
Ne0331 After him Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired as far as the house of the temple servants and of the merchants, opposite the Muster Gate, and to the upper chamber of the corner.  
Ne0332 And between the upper chamber of the corner and the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and the merchants repaired.  
Ne0401 Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews.  
Ne0402 And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?”  
Ne0403 Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!”  
Ne0404 Hear, O our God, for we are despised. Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives.  
Ne0405 Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders.  
Ne0406 So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.  
Ne0407 But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry.  
Ne0408 And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.  
Ne0409 And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.  
Ne0410 In Judah it was said, “The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall.”  
Ne0411 And our enemies said, “They will not know or see till we come among them and kill them and stop the work.”  
Ne0412 At that time the Jews who lived near them came from all directions and said to us ten times, “You must return to us.”  
Ne0413 So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people by their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.  
Ne0414 And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”  
Ne0415 When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.  
Ne0416 From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail. And the leaders stood behind the whole house of Judah,  
Ne0417 who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and held his weapon with the other.  
Ne0418 And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me.  
Ne0419 And I said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another.  
Ne0420 In the place where you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.”  
Ne0421 So we labored at the work, and half of them held the spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.  
Ne0422 I also said to the people at that time, “Let every man and his servant pass the night within Jerusalem, that they may be a guard for us by night and may labor by day.”  
Ne0423 So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes; each kept his weapon at his right hand.  
Ne0501 Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.  
Ne0502 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.”  
Ne0503 There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.”  
Ne0504 And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards.  
Ne0505 Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”  
Ne0506 I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these words.  
Ne0507 I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, “You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them  
Ne0508 and said to them, “We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say.  
Ne0509 So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?  
Ne0510 Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest.  
Ne0511 Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.”  
Ne0512 Then they said, “We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say.” And I called the priests and made them swear to do as they had promised.  
Ne0513 I also shook out the fold of my garment and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied.” And all the assembly said “Amen” and praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.  
Ne0514 Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor.  
Ne0515 The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.  
Ne0516 I also persevered in the work on this wall, and we acquired no land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work.  
Ne0517 Moreover, there were at my table 150 men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.  
Ne0518 Now what was prepared at my expense for each day was one ox and six choice sheep and birds, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Yet for all this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because the service was too heavy on this people.  
Ne0519 Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people.  
Ne0601 Now when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),  
Ne0602 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come and let us meet together at Hakkephirim in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to do me harm.  
Ne0603 And I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”  
Ne0604 And they sent to me four times in this way, and I answered them in the same manner.  
Ne0605 In the same way Sanballat for the fifth time sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand.  
Ne0606 In it was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall. And according to these reports you wish to become their king.  
Ne0607 And you have also set up prophets to proclaim concerning you in Jerusalem, ‘There is a king in Judah.’ And now the king will hear of these reports. So now come and let us take counsel together.”  
Ne0608 Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind.”  
Ne0609 For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, O God, strengthen my hands.  
Ne0610 Now when I went into the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his home, he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple. Let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you. They are coming to kill you by night.”  
Ne0611 But I said, “Should such a man as I run away? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live? I will not go in.”  
Ne0612 And I understood and saw that God had not sent him, but he had pronounced the prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.  
Ne0613 For this purpose he was hired, that I should be afraid and act in this way and sin, and so they could give me a bad name in order to taunt me.  
Ne0614 Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid.  
Ne0615 So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty- two days.  
Ne0616 And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.  
Ne0617 Moreover, in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.  
Ne0618 For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah: and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as his wife.  
Ne0619 Also they spoke of his good deeds in my presence and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to make me afraid.  
Ne0701 Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,  
Ne0702 I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many.  
Ne0703 And I said to them, “Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot. And while they are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their guard posts and some in front of their own homes.”  
Ne0704 The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few, and no houses had been rebuilt.  
Ne0705 Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:  
Ne0706 These were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried into exile. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his town.  
Ne0707 They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:  
Ne0708 the sons of Parosh, 2,172.  
Ne0709 The sons of Shephatiah, 372.  
Ne0710 The sons of Arah, 652  
Ne0711 The sons of Pahath-moab, namely the sons of Jeshua and Joab, 2,818.  
Ne0712 The sons of Elam, 1,254.  
Ne0713 The sons of Zattu, 845.  
Ne0714   The sons of Zaccai, 760.   
Ne0715 The sons of Binnui, 648.  
Ne0716 The sons of Bebai, 628.  
Ne0717 The sons of Azgad, 2,322.  
Ne0718 The sons of Adonikam, 667.  
Ne0719 The sons of Bigvai, 2,067.  
Ne0720 The sons of Adin, 655.  
Ne0721 The sons of Ater, namely of Hezekiah, 98.  
Ne0722 The sons of Hashum, 328.  
Ne0723 The sons of Bezai, 324.  
Ne0724 The sons of Hariph, 112.  
Ne0725 The sons of Gibeon, 95.  
Ne0726 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188.  
Ne0727 The men of Anathoth, 128.  
Ne0728   The men of Beth-azmaveth, 42.   
Ne0729 The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743.  
Ne0730 The men of Ramah and Geba, 621.  
Ne0731 The men of Michmas, 122.  
Ne0732 The men of Bethel and Ai, 123.  
Ne0733 The men of the other Nebo, 52.  
Ne0734 The sons of the other Elam, 1,254.  
Ne0735 The sons of Harim, 320.  
Ne0736 The sons of Jericho, 345.  
Ne0737 The sons of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 721.  
Ne0738 The sons of Senaah, 3,930.  
Ne0739 The priests: the sons of Jedaiah, namely the house of Jeshua, 973.  
Ne0740 The sons of Immer, 1,052.  
Ne0741 The sons of Pashhur, 1,247.  
Ne0742 The sons of Harim, 1,017.  
Ne0743 The Levites: the sons of Jeshua, namely of Kadmiel of the sons of Hodevah, 74.  
Ne0744 The singers: the sons of Asaph, 148.  
Ne0745 The gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, 138.  
Ne0746 The temple servants: the sons of Ziha, the sons of Hasupha, the sons of Tabbaoth,  
Ne0747 the sons of Keros, the sons of Sia, the sons of Padon,  
Ne0748 the sons of Lebana, the sons of Hagaba, the sons of Shalmai,  
Ne0749 the sons of Hanan, the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar,  
Ne0750 the sons of Reaiah, the sons of Rezin, the sons of Nekoda,  
Ne0751 the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah,  
Ne0752 the sons of Besai, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephushesim,  
Ne0753 the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur,  
Ne0754 the sons of Bazlith, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha,  
Ne0755 the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah,  
Ne0756 the sons of Neziah, the sons of Hatipha.  
Ne0757 The sons of Solomon’s servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Sophereth, the sons of Perida,  
Ne0758 the sons of Jaala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel,  
Ne0759 the sons of Shephatiah, the sons of Hattil, the sons of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the sons of Amon.  
Ne0760 All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants were 392.  
Ne0761 The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove their fathers’ houses nor their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:  
Ne0762 the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, 642.  
Ne0763 Also, of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name).  
Ne0764 These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but it was not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.  
Ne0765 The governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food until a priest with Urim and Thummim should arise.  
Ne0766 The whole assembly together was 42,360,  
Ne0767 besides their male and female servants, of whom there were 7,337. And they had 245 singers, male and female.  
Ne0768 Their horses were 736, their mules 245,  
Ne0769 their camels 435, and their donkeys 6,720.  
Ne0770 Now some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 basins, 30 priests’ garments and 500 minas of silver.  
Ne0771 And some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.  
Ne0772 And what the rest of the people gave was 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priests’ garments.  
Ne0773 So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their towns. And when the seventh month had come, the people of Israel were in their towns.  
Ne0801 And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the LORD had commanded Israel.  
Ne0802 So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, on the first day of the seventh month.  
Ne0803 And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law.  
Ne0804 And Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden platform that they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hand, and Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam on his left hand.  
Ne0805 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people, and as he opened it all the people stood.  
Ne0806 And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and all the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.  
Ne0807 Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites, helped the people to understand the Law, while the people remained in their places.  
Ne0808 They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.  
Ne0809 And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.  
Ne0810 Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”  
Ne0811 So the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be quiet, for this day is holy; do not be grieved.”  
Ne0812 And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.  
Ne0813 On the second day the heads of fathers’ houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the Law.  
Ne0814 And they found it written in the Law that the LORD had commanded by Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month,  
Ne0815 and that they should proclaim it and publish it in all their towns and in Jerusalem, “Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, as it is written.”  
Ne0816 So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim.  
Ne0817 And all the assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and lived in the booths, for from the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the people of Israel had not done so. And there was very great rejoicing.  
Ne0818 And day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. They kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the rule.  
Ne0901 Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth on their heads.  
Ne0902 And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.  
Ne0903 And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for a quarter of the day; for another quarter of it they made confession and worshiped the LORD their God.  
Ne0904 On the stairs of the Levites stood Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani; and they cried with a loud voice to the LORD their God.  
Ne0905 Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.  
Ne0906 “You are the LORD, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.  
Ne0907 You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.  
Ne0908 You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.  
Ne0909 “And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea,  
Ne0910 and performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted arrogantly against our fathers. And you made a name for yourself, as it is to this day.  
Ne0911 And you divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on dry land, and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into mighty waters.  
Ne0912 By a pillar of cloud you led them in the day, and by a pillar of fire in the night to light for them the way in which they should go.  
Ne0913 You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,  
Ne0914 and you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses your servant.  
Ne0915 You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.  
Ne0916 “But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments.  
Ne0917 They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.  
Ne0918 Even when they had made for themselves a golden calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed great blasphemies,  
Ne0919 you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go.  
Ne0920 You gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst.  
Ne0921 Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.  
Ne0922 “And you gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner. So they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan.  
Ne0923 You multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess.  
Ne0924 So the descendants went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hand, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.  
Ne0925 And they captured fortified cities and a rich land, and took possession of houses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.  
Ne0926 “Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.  
Ne0927 Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer. And in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from the hand of their enemies.  
Ne0928 But after they had rest they did evil again before you, and you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, and many times you delivered them according to your mercies.  
Ne0929 And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.  
Ne0930 Many years you bore with them and warned them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.  
Ne0931 Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.  
Ne0932 “Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.  
Ne0933 Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly.  
Ne0934 Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them.  
Ne0935 Even in their own kingdom, and amid your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land that you set before them, they did not serve you or turn from their wicked works.  
Ne0936 Behold, we are slaves this day; in the land that you gave to our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts, behold, we are slaves.  
Ne0937 And its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.  
Ne0938 “Because of all this we make a firm covenant in writing; on the sealed document are the names of our princes, our Levites, and our priests.  
Ne1001 “On the seals are the names of Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, Zedekiah,  
Ne1002 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,  
Ne1003 Pashhur, Amariah, Malchijah,  
Ne1004 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,  
Ne1005 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,  
Ne1006 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,  
Ne1007 Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,  
Ne1008 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these are the priests.  
Ne1009 And the Levites: Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;  
Ne1010 and their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,  
Ne1011 Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,  
Ne1012 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,  
Ne1013 Hodiah, Bani, Beninu.  
Ne1014 The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,  
Ne1015 Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,  
Ne1016 Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,  
Ne1017 Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,  
Ne1018 Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,  
Ne1019 Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,  
Ne1020 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,  
Ne1021 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,  
Ne1022 Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,  
Ne1023 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,  
Ne1024 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,  
Ne1025 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,  
Ne1026 Ahiah, Hanan, Anan,  
Ne1027 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.  
Ne1028 “The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding,  
Ne1029 join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his rules and his statutes.  
Ne1030 We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.  
Ne1031 And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. And we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.  
Ne1032 “We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly a third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:  
Ne1033 for the showbread, the regular grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed feasts, the holy things, and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.  
Ne1034 We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, have likewise cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law.  
Ne1035 We obligate ourselves to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the LORD;  
Ne1036 also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks;  
Ne1037 and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor.  
Ne1038 And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes. And the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of the storehouse.  
Ne1039 For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the chambers, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, as well as the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.”  
Ne1101 Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine out of ten remained in the other towns.  
Ne1102 And the people blessed all the men who willingly offered to live in Jerusalem.  
Ne1103 These are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the towns of Judah everyone lived on his property in their towns: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendants of Solomon’s servants.  
Ne1104 And in Jerusalem lived certain of the sons of Judah and of the sons of Benjamin. Of the sons of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, son of Zechariah, son of Amariah, son of Shephatiah, son of Mahalalel, of the sons of Perez;  
Ne1105 and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, son of Col-hozeh, son of Hazaiah, son of Adaiah, son of Joiarib, son of Zechariah, son of the Shilonite.  
Ne1106 All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were 468 valiant men.  
Ne1107 And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, son of Joed, son of Pedaiah, son of Kolaiah, son of Maaseiah, son of Ithiel, son of Jeshaiah,  
Ne1108 and his brothers, men of valor, 928.  
Ne1109 Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city.  
Ne1110 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin,  
Ne1111 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, ruler of the house of God,  
Ne1112 and their brothers who did the work of the house, 822; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, son of Pelaliah, son of Amzi, son of Zechariah, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah,  
Ne1113 and his brothers, heads of fathers’ houses, 242; and Amashsai, the son of Azarel, son of Ahzai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer,  
Ne1114 and their brothers, mighty men of valor, 128; their overseer was Zabdiel the son of Haggedolim.  
Ne1115 And of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, son of Bunni;  
Ne1116 and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were over the outside work of the house of God;  
Ne1117 and Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, who was the leader of the praise, who gave thanks, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun.  
Ne1118 All the Levites in the holy city were 284.  
Ne1119 The gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon and their brothers, who kept watch at the gates, were 172.  
Ne1120 And the rest of Israel, and of the priests and the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, every one in his inheritance.  
Ne1121 But the temple servants lived on Ophel; and Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants.  
Ne1122 The overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the work of the house of God.  
Ne1123 For there was a command from the king concerning them, and a fixed provision for the singers, as every day required.  
Ne1124 And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the sons of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king’s side in all matters concerning the people.  
Ne1125 And as for the villages, with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages, and in Dibon and its villages, and in Jekabzeel and its villages,  
Ne1126 and in Jeshua and in Moladah and Beth-pelet,  
Ne1127 in Hazar-shual, in Beersheba and its villages,  
Ne1128 in Ziklag, in Meconah and its villages,  
Ne1129 in En-rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth,  
Ne1130 Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its villages. So they encamped from Beersheba to the Valley of Hinnom.  
Ne1131 The people of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages,  
Ne1132 Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,  
Ne1133 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,  
Ne1134 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,  
Ne1135 Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.  
Ne1136 And certain divisions of the Levites in Judah were assigned to Benjamin.  
Ne1201 These are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,  
Ne1202 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,  
Ne1203 Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,  
Ne1204 Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah,  
Ne1205 Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,  
Ne1206 Shemaiah, Joiarib, Jedaiah,  
Ne1207 Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.  
Ne1208 And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who with his brothers was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving.  
Ne1209 And Bakbukiah and Unni and their brothers stood opposite them in the service.  
Ne1210 And Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, Joiakim the father of Eliashib, Eliashib the father of Joiada,  
Ne1211 Joiada the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan the father of Jaddua.  
Ne1212 And in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers’ houses: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;  
Ne1213 of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;  
Ne1214 of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;  
Ne1215 of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;  
Ne1216 of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;  
Ne1217 of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;  
Ne1218 of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;  
Ne1219 of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;  
Ne1220 of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;  
Ne1221 of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.  
Ne1222 In the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, the Levites were recorded as heads of fathers’ houses; so too were the priests in the reign of Darius the Persian.  
Ne1223 As for the sons of Levi, their heads of fathers’ houses were written in the Book of the Chronicles until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.  
Ne1224 And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers who stood opposite them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch by watch.  
Ne1225 Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storehouses of the gates.  
Ne1226 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and of Ezra, the priest and scribe.  
Ne1227 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres.  
Ne1228 And the sons of the singers gathered together from the district surrounding Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;  
Ne1229 also from Beth-gilgal and from the region of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built for themselves villages around Jerusalem.  
Ne1230 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.  
Ne1231 Then I brought the leaders of Judah up onto the wall and appointed two great choirs that gave thanks. One went to the south on the wall to the Dung Gate.  
Ne1232 And after them went Hoshaiah and half of the leaders of Judah,  
Ne1233 and Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam,  
Ne1234 Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,  
Ne1235 and certain of the priests’ sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph;  
Ne1236 and his relatives, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God. And Ezra the scribe went before them.  
Ne1237 At the Fountain Gate they went up straight before them by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, to the Water Gate on the east.  
Ne1238 The other choir of those who gave thanks went to the north, and I followed them with half of the people, on the wall, above the Tower of the Ovens, to the Broad Wall,  
Ne1239 and above the Gate of Ephraim, and by the Gate of Yeshanah, and by the Fish Gate and the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate; and they came to a halt at the Gate of the Guard.  
Ne1240 So both choirs of those who gave thanks stood in the house of God, and I and half of the officials with me;  
Ne1241 and the priests Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;  
Ne1242 and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang with Jezrahiah as their leader.  
Ne1243 And they offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard far away.  
Ne1244 On that day men were appointed over the storerooms, the contributions, the firstfruits, and the tithes, to gather into them the portions required by the Law for the priests and for the Levites according to the fields of the towns, for Judah rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered.  
Ne1245 And they performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the command of David and his son Solomon.  
Ne1246 For long ago in the days of David and Asaph there were directors of the singers, and there were songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.  
Ne1247 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily portions for the singers and the gatekeepers; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.  
Ne1301 On that day they read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people. And in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,  
Ne1302 for they did not meet the people of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them—yet our God turned the curse into a blessing.  
Ne1303 As soon as the people heard the law, they separated from Israel all those of foreign descent.  
Ne1304 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, and who was related to Tobiah,  
Ne1305 prepared for Tobiah a large chamber where they had previously put the grain offering, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, wine, and oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.  
Ne1306 While this was taking place, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king. And after some time I asked leave of the king  
Ne1307 and came to Jerusalem, and I then discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, preparing for him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.  
Ne1308 And I was very angry, and I threw all the household furniture of Tobiah out of the chamber.  
Ne1309 Then I gave orders, and they cleansed the chambers, and I brought back there the vessels of the house of God, with the grain offering and the frankincense.  
Ne1310 I also found out that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each to his field.  
Ne1311 So I confronted the officials and said, “Why is the house of God forsaken?” And I gathered them together and set them in their stations.  
Ne1312 Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, wine, and oil into the storehouses.  
Ne1313 And I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, and as their assistant Hanan the son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for they were considered reliable, and their duty was to distribute to their brothers.  
Ne1314 Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for his service.  
Ne1315 In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food.  
Ne1316 Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of goods and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, in Jerusalem itself!  
Ne1317 Then I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?  
Ne1318 Did not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”  
Ne1319 As soon as it began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day.  
Ne1320 Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice.  
Ne1321 But I warned them and said to them, “Why do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.  
Ne1322 Then I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love.  
Ne1323 In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.  
Ne1324 And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people.  
Ne1325 And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.  
Ne1326 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.  
Ne1327 Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”  
Ne1328 And one of the sons of Jehoiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I chased him from me.  
Ne1329 Remember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.  
Ne1330 Thus I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established the duties of the priests and Levites, each in his work;  
Ne1331 and I provided for the wood offering at appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.  
Es0101 Now in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over 127 provinces,  
Es0102 in those days when King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa, the citadel,  
Es0103 in the third year of his reign he gave a feast for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces were before him,  
Es0104 while he showed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor and pomp of his greatness for many days, 180 days.  
Es0105 And when these days were completed, the king gave for all the people present in Susa the citadel, both great and small, a feast lasting for seven days in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.  
Es0106 There were white cotton curtains and violet hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rods and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and precious stones.  
Es0107 Drinks were served in golden vessels, vessels of different kinds, and the royal wine was lavished according to the bounty of the king.  
Es0108 And drinking was according to this edict: “There is no compulsion.” For the king had given orders to all the staff of his palace to do as each man desired.  
Es0109 Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women in the palace that belonged to King Ahasuerus.  
Es0110 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,  
Es0111 to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was lovely to look at.  
Es0112 But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command delivered by the eunuchs. At this the king became enraged, and his anger burned within him.  
Es0113 Then the king said to the wise men who knew the times (for this was the king’s procedure toward all who were versed in law and judgment,  
Es0114 the men next to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom):  
Es0115 “According to the law, what is to be done to Queen Vashti, because she has not performed the command of King Ahasuerus delivered by the eunuchs?”  
Es0116 Then Memucan said in the presence of the king and the officials, “Not only against the king has Queen Vashti done wrong, but also against all the officials and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.  
Es0117 For the queen’s behavior will be made known to all women, causing them to look at their husbands with contempt, since they will say, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, and she did not come.’  
Es0118 This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s behavior will say the same to all the king’s officials, and there will be contempt and wrath in plenty.  
Es0119 If it please the king, let a royal order go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes so that it may not be repealed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus. And let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.  
Es0120 So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, for it is vast, all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike.”  
Es0121 This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did as Memucan proposed.  
Es0122 He sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, that every man be master in his own household and speak according to the language of his people.  
Es0201 After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.  
Es0202 Then the king’s young men who attended him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the king.  
Es0203 And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom to gather all the beautiful young virgins to the harem in Susa the citadel, under custody of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women. Let their cosmetics be given them.  
Es0204 And let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This pleased the king, and he did so.  
Es0205 Now there was a Jew in Susa the citadel whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite,  
Es0206 who had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away.  
Es0207 He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.  
Es0208 So when the king’s order and his edict were proclaimed, and when many young women were gathered in Susa the citadel in custody of Hegai, Esther also was taken into the king’s palace and put in custody of Hegai, who had charge of the women.  
Es0209 And the young woman pleased him and won his favor. And he quickly provided her with her cosmetics and her portion of food, and with seven chosen young women from the king’s palace, and advanced her and her young women to the best place in the harem.  
Es0210 Esther had not made known her people or kindred, for Mordecai had commanded her not to make it known.  
Es0211 And every day Mordecai walked in front of the court of the harem to learn how Esther was and what was happening to her.  
Es0212 Now when the turn came for each young woman to go in to King Ahasuerus, after being twelve months under the regulations for the women, since this was the regular period of their beautifying, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and ointments for women—  
Es0213 when the young woman went in to the king in this way, she was given whatever she desired to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.  
Es0214 In the evening she would go in, and in the morning she would return to the second harem in custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who was in charge of the concubines. She would not go in to the king again, unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.  
Es0215 When the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his own daughter, to go in to the king, she asked for nothing except what Hegai the king’s eunuch, who had charge of the women, advised. Now Esther was winning favor in the eyes of all who saw her.  
Es0216 And when Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign,  
Es0217 the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.  
Es0218 Then the king gave a great feast for all his officials and servants; it was Esther’s feast. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces and gave gifts with royal generosity.  
Es0219 Now when the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.  
Es0220 Esther had not made known her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had commanded her, for Esther obeyed Mordecai just as when she was brought up by him.  
Es0221 In those days, as Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.  
Es0222 And this came to the knowledge of Mordecai, and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mordecai.  
Es0223 When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.  
Es0301 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were with him.  
Es0302 And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage.  
Es0303 Then the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you transgress the king’s command?”  
Es0304 And when they spoke to him day after day and he would not listen to them, they told Haman, in order to see whether Mordecai’s words would stand, for he had told them that he was a Jew.  
Es0305 And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage to him, Haman was filled with fury.  
Es0306 But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.  
Es0307 In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.  
Es0308 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them.  
Es0309 If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, that they may put it into the king’s treasuries.”  
Es0310 So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews.  
Es0311 And the king said to Haman, “The money is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”  
Es0312 Then the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king’s satraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples, to every province in its own script and every people in its own language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring.  
Es0313 Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.  
Es0314 A copy of the document was to be issued as a decree in every province by proclamation to all the peoples to be ready for that day.  
Es0315 The couriers went out hurriedly by order of the king, and the decree was issued in Susa the citadel. And the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was thrown into confusion.  
Es0401 When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry.  
Es0402 He went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.  
Es0403 And in every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.  
Es0404 When Esther’s young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.  
Es0405 Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, who had been appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was.  
Es0406 Hathach went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the king’s gate,  
Es0407 and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.  
Es0408 Mordecai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her and command her to go to the king to beg his favor and plead with him on behalf of her people.  
Es0409 And Hathach went and told Esther what Mordecai had said.  
Es0410 Then Esther spoke to Hathach and commanded him to go to Mordecai and say,  
Es0411 “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law—to be put to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. But as for me, I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”  
Es0412 And they told Mordecai what Esther had said.  
Es0413 Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews.  
Es0414 For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”  
Es0415 Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai,  
Es0416 “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”  
Es0417 Mordecai then went away and did everything as Esther had ordered him.  
Es0501 On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace, in front of the king’s quarters, while the king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room opposite the entrance to the palace.  
Es0502 And when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won favor in his sight, and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.  
Es0503 And the king said to her, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom.”  
Es0504 And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the king and Haman come today to a feast that I have prepared for the king.”  
Es0505 Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, so that we may do as Esther has asked.” So the king and Haman came to the feast that Esther had prepared.  
Es0506 And as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king said to Esther, “What is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”  
Es0507 Then Esther answered, “My wish and my request is:  
Es0508 If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my wish and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast that I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.”  
Es0509 And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.  
Es0510 Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and brought his friends and his wife Zeresh.  
Es0511 And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the servants of the king.  
Es0512 Then Haman said, “Even Queen Esther let no one but me come with the king to the feast she prepared. And tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king.  
Es0513 Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”  
Es0514 Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged upon it. Then go joyfully with the king to the feast.” This idea pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.  
Es0601 On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.  
Es0602 And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.  
Es0603 And the king said, “What honor or distinction has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” The king’s young men who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”  
Es0604 And the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king’s palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for him.  
Es0605 And the king’s young men told him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.”  
Es0606 So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What should be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” And Haman said to himself, “Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?”  
Es0607 And Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,  
Es0608 let royal robes be brought, which the king has worn, and the horse that the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown is set.  
Es0609 And let the robes and the horse be handed over to one of the king’s most noble officials. Let them dress the man whom the king delights to honor, and let them lead him on the horse through the square of the city, proclaiming before him: ‘Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.’”  
Es0610 Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry; take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned.”  
Es0611 So Haman took the robes and the horse, and he dressed Mordecai and led him through the square of the city, proclaiming before him, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.”  
Es0612 Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.  
Es0613 And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not overcome him but will surely fall before him.”  
Es0614 While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the feast that Esther had prepared.  
Es0701 So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther.  
Es0702 And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, “What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”  
Es0703 Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request.  
Es0704 For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”  
Es0705 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who has dared to do this?”  
Es0706 And Esther said, “A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.  
Es0707 And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king.  
Es0708 And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. And the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the word left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman’s face.  
Es0709 Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Moreover, the gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman’s house, fifty cubits high.” And the king said, “Hang him on that.”  
Es0710 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.  
Es0801 On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her.  
Es0802 And the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.  
Es0803 Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews.  
Es0804 When the king held out the golden scepter to Esther, Esther rose and stood before the king.  
Es0805 And she said, “If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king.  
Es0806 For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”  
Es0807 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he intended to lay hands on the Jews.  
Es0808 But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king’s ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s ring cannot be revoked.”  
Es0809 The king’s scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day. And an edict was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language.  
Es0810 And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king’s signet ring. Then he sent the letters by mounted couriers riding on swift horses that were used in the king’s service, bred from the royal stud,  
Es0811 saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, and to plunder their goods,  
Es0812 on one day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.  
Es0813 A copy of what was written was to be issued as a decree in every province, being publicly displayed to all peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to take vengeance on their enemies.  
Es0814 So the couriers, mounted on their swift horses that were used in the king’s service, rode out hurriedly, urged by the king’s command. And the decree was issued in Susa the citadel.  
Es0815 Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown and a robe of fine linen and purple, and the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.  
Es0816 The Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor.  
Es0817 And in every province and in every city, wherever the king’s command and his edict reached, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews, for fear of the Jews had fallen on them.  
Es0901 Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s command and edict were about to be carried out, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, the reverse occurred: the Jews gained mastery over those who hated them.  
Es0902 The Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm. And no one could stand against them, for the fear of them had fallen on all peoples.  
Es0903 All the officials of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and the royal agents also helped the Jews, for the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.  
Es0904 For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai grew more and more powerful.  
Es0905 The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.  
Es0906 In Susa the citadel itself the Jews killed and destroyed 500 men,  
Es0907 and also killed Parshandatha and Dalphon and Aspatha  
Es0908   and Poratha and Adalia and Aridatha   
Es0909 and Parmashta and Arisai and Aridai and Vaizatha,  
Es0910 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they laid no hand on the plunder.  
Es0911 That very day the number of those killed in Susa the citadel was reported to the king.  
Es0912 And the king said to Queen Esther, “In Susa the citadel the Jews have killed and destroyed 500 men and also the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what further is your request? It shall be fulfilled.”  
Es0913 And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day’s edict. And let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows.”  
Es0914 So the king commanded this to be done. A decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.  
Es0915 The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed 300 men in Susa, but they laid no hands on the plunder.  
Es0916 Now the rest of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces also gathered to defend their lives, and got relief from their enemies and killed 75,000 of those who hated them, but they laid no hands on the plunder.  
Es0917 This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness.  
Es0918 But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested on the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness.  
Es0919 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the rural towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, as a holiday, and as a day on which they send gifts of food to one another.  
Es0920 And Mordecai recorded these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,  
Es0921 obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,  
Es0922 as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.  
Es0923 So the Jews accepted what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them.  
Es0924 For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them.  
Es0925 But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.  
Es0926 Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. Therefore, because of all that was written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had happened to them,  
Es0927 the Jews firmly obligated themselves and their offspring and all who joined them, that without fail they would keep these two days according to what was written and at the time appointed every year,  
Es0928 that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, in every clan, province, and city, and that these days of Purim should never fall into disuse among the Jews, nor should the commemoration of these days cease among their descendants.  
Es0929 Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew gave full written authority, confirming this second letter about Purim.  
Es0930 Letters were sent to all the Jews, to the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, in words of peace and truth,  
Es0931 that these days of Purim should be observed at their appointed seasons, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther obligated them, and as they had obligated themselves and their offspring, with regard to their fasts and their lamenting.  
Es0932 The command of Esther confirmed these practices of Purim, and it was recorded in writing.  
Es1001 King Ahasuerus imposed tax on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.  
Es1002 And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?  
Es1003 For Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people.  
Jb0101 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.  
Jb0102 There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.  
Jb0103 He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.  
Jb0104 His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.  
Jb0105 And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.  
Jb0106 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.  
Jb0107 The LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”  
Jb0108 And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”  
Jb0109 Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “Does Job fear God for no reason?  
Jb0110 Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.  
Jb0111 But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.”  
Jb0112 And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.  
Jb0113 Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,  
Jb0114 and there came a messenger to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,  
Jb0115 and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”  
Jb0116 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”  
Jb0117 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “The Chaldeans formed three groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”  
Jb0118 While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,  
Jb0119 and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”  
Jb0120 Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped.  
Jb0121 And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”  
Jb0122 In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.  
Jb0201 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD.  
Jb0202 And the LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”  
Jb0203 And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.”  
Jb0204 Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.  
Jb0205 But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.”  
Jb0206 And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life.”  
Jb0207 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.  
Jb0208 And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes.  
Jb0209 Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.”  
Jb0210 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.  
Jb0211 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.  
Jb0212 And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven.  
Jb0213 And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.  
Jb0301 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.  
Jb0302 And Job said:  
Jb0303 “Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’  
Jb0304 Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.  
Jb0305 Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.  
Jb0306 That night—let thick darkness seize it! Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.  
Jb0307 Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry enter it.  
Jb0308 Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.  
Jb0309 Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning,  
Jb0310 because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.  
Jb0311 “Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?  
Jb0312 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?  
Jb0313 For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,  
Jb0314 with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves,  
Jb0315 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.  
Jb0316 Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?  
Jb0317 There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.  
Jb0318 There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.  
Jb0319 The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.  
Jb0320 “Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,  
Jb0321 who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,  
Jb0322 who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?  
Jb0323 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?  
Jb0324 For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.  
Jb0325 For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.  
Jb0326 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes.”  
Jb0401 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:  
Jb0402 “If one ventures a word with you, will you be impatient? Yet who can keep from speaking?  
Jb0403 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.  
Jb0404 Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.  
Jb0405 But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.  
Jb0406 Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?  
Jb0407 “Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?  
Jb0408 As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.  
Jb0409 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they are consumed.  
Jb0410 The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken.  
Jb0411 The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.  
Jb0412 “Now a word was brought to me stealthily; my ear received the whisper of it.  
Jb0413 Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,  
Jb0414 dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.  
Jb0415 A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.  
Jb0416 It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:  
Jb0417 ‘Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?  
Jb0418 Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;  
Jb0419 how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.  
Jb0420 Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.  
Jb0421 Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?’  
Jb0501 “Call now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?  
Jb0502 Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.  
Jb0503 I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.  
Jb0504 His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.  
Jb0505 The hungry eat his harvest, and he takes it even out of thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.  
Jb0506 For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground,  
Jb0507 but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.  
Jb0508 “As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause,  
Jb0509 who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:  
Jb0510 he gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields;  
Jb0511 he sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.  
Jb0512 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.  
Jb0513 He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.  
Jb0514 They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.  
Jb0515 But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth and from the hand of the mighty.  
Jb0516 So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.  
Jb0517 “Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.  
Jb0518 For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal.  
Jb0519 He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no evil shall touch you.  
Jb0520 In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.  
Jb0521 You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.  
Jb0522 At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.  
Jb0523 For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.  
Jb0524 You shall know that your tent is at peace, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.  
Jb0525 You shall know also that your offspring shall be many, and your descendants as the grass of the earth.  
Jb0526 You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.  
Jb0527 Behold, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good.”  
Jb0601 Then Job answered and said:  
Jb0602 “Oh that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!  
Jb0603 For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.  
Jb0604 For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.  
Jb0605 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass, or the ox low over his fodder?  
Jb0606 Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?  
Jb0607 My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as food that is loathsome to me.  
Jb0608 “Oh that I might have my request, and that God would fulfill my hope,  
Jb0609 that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!  
Jb0610 This would be my comfort; I would even exult in pain unsparing, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.  
Jb0611 What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?  
Jb0612 Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze?  
Jb0613 Have I any help in me, when resource is driven from me?  
Jb0614 “He who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.  
Jb0615 My brothers are treacherous as a torrent-bed, as torrential streams that pass away,  
Jb0616 which are dark with ice, and where the snow hides itself.  
Jb0617 When they melt, they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place.  
Jb0618 The caravans turn aside from their course; they go up into the waste and perish.  
Jb0619 The caravans of Tema look, the travelers of Sheba hope.  
Jb0620 They are ashamed because they were confident; they come there and are disappointed.  
Jb0621 For you have now become nothing; you see my calamity and are afraid.  
Jb0622 Have I said, ‘Make me a gift’? Or, ‘From your wealth offer a bribe for me’?  
Jb0623 Or, ‘Deliver me from the adversary’s hand’? Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the ruthless’?  
Jb0624 “Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have gone astray.  
Jb0625 How forceful are upright words! But what does reproof from you reprove?  
Jb0626 Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?  
Jb0627 You would even cast lots over the fatherless, and bargain over your friend.  
Jb0628 “But now, be pleased to look at me, for I will not lie to your face.  
Jb0629 Please turn; let no injustice be done. Turn now; my vindication is at stake.  
Jb0630 Is there any injustice on my tongue? Cannot my palate discern the cause of calamity?  
Jb0701 “Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand?  
Jb0702 Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages,  
Jb0703 so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.  
Jb0704 When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.  
Jb0705 My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.  
Jb0706 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and come to their end without hope.  
Jb0707 “Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.  
Jb0708 The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.  
Jb0709 As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up;  
Jb0710 he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him anymore.  
Jb0711 “Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.  
Jb0712 Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?  
Jb0713 When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’  
Jb0714 then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,  
Jb0715 so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.  
Jb0716 I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.  
Jb0717 What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him,  
Jb0718 visit him every morning and test him every moment?  
Jb0719 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone till I swallow my spit?  
Jb0720 If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you?  
Jb0721 Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”  
Jb0801 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:  
Jb0802 “How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?  
Jb0803 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?  
Jb0804 If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.  
Jb0805 If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy,  
Jb0806 if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation.  
Jb0807 And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.  
Jb0808 “For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out.  
Jb0809 For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.  
Jb0810 Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding?  
Jb0811 “Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water?  
Jb0812 While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant.  
Jb0813 Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish.  
Jb0814 His confidence is severed, and his trust is a spider’s web.  
Jb0815 He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.  
Jb0816 He is a lush plant before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.  
Jb0817 His roots entwine the stone heap; he looks upon a house of stones.  
Jb0818 If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’  
Jb0819 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the soil others will spring.  
Jb0820 “Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers.  
Jb0821 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.  
Jb0822 Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”  
Jb0901 Then Job answered and said:  
Jb0902 “Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?  
Jb0903 If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.  
Jb0904 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength—who has hardened himself against him, and succeeded?—  
Jb0905 he who removes mountains, and they know it not, when he overturns them in his anger,  
Jb0906 who shakes the earth out of its place, and its pillars tremble;  
Jb0907 who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;  
Jb0908 who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea;  
Jb0909 who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south;  
Jb0910 who does great things beyond searching out, and marvelous things beyond number.  
Jb0911 Behold, he passes by me, and I see him not; he moves on, but I do not perceive him.  
Jb0912 Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’  
Jb0913 “God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.  
Jb0914 How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?  
Jb0915 Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.  
Jb0916 If I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.  
Jb0917 For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause;  
Jb0918 he will not let me get my breath, but fills me with bitterness.  
Jb0919 If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?  
Jb0920 Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.  
Jb0921 I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.  
Jb0922 It is all one; therefore I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’  
Jb0923 When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.  
Jb0924 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?  
Jb0925 “My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.  
Jb0926 They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.  
Jb0927 If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer,’  
Jb0928 I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.  
Jb0929 I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?  
Jb0930 If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,  
Jb0931 yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.  
Jb0932 For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.  
Jb0933 There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both.  
Jb0934 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.  
Jb0935 Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.  
Jb1001 “I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.  
Jb1002 I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.  
Jb1003 Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?  
Jb1004 Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees?  
Jb1005 Are your days as the days of man, or your years as a man’s years,  
Jb1006 that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,  
Jb1007 although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?  
Jb1008 Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.  
Jb1009 Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?  
Jb1010 Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?  
Jb1011 You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.  
Jb1012 You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.  
Jb1013 Yet these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.  
Jb1014 If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity.  
Jb1015 If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction.  
Jb1016 And were my head lifted up, you would hunt me like a lion and again work wonders against me.  
Jb1017 You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.  
Jb1018 “Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me  
Jb1019 and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.  
Jb1020 Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer  
Jb1021 before I go—and I shall not return— to the land of darkness and deep shadow,  
Jb1022 the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.”  
Jb1101 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:  
Jb1102 “Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be judged right?  
Jb1103 Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?  
Jb1104 For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God’s eyes.’  
Jb1105 But oh, that God would speak and open his lips to you,  
Jb1106 and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.  
Jb1107 “Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?  
Jb1108 It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?  
Jb1109 Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.  
Jb1110 If he passes through and imprisons and summons the court, who can turn him back?  
Jb1111 For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?  
Jb1112 But a stupid man will get understanding when a wild donkey’s colt is born a man!  
Jb1113 “If you prepare your heart, you will stretch out your hands toward him.  
Jb1114 If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not injustice dwell in your tents.  
Jb1115 Surely then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be secure and will not fear.  
Jb1116 You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.  
Jb1117 And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.  
Jb1118 And you will feel secure, because there is hope; you will look around and take your rest in security.  
Jb1119 You will lie down, and none will make you afraid; many will court your favor.  
Jb1120 But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”  
Jb1201 Then Job answered and said:  
Jb1202 “No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.  
Jb1203 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?  
Jb1204 I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.  
Jb1205 In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.  
Jb1206 The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.  
Jb1207 “But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;  
Jb1208 or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.  
Jb1209 Who among all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?  
Jb1210 In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.  
Jb1211 Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?  
Jb1212 Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.  
Jb1213 “With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.  
Jb1214 If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.  
Jb1215 If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.  
Jb1216 With him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.  
Jb1217 He leads counselors away stripped, and judges he makes fools.  
Jb1218 He looses the bonds of kings and binds a waistcloth on their hips.  
Jb1219 He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty.  
Jb1220 He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.  
Jb1221 He pours contempt on princes and loosens the belt of the strong.  
Jb1222 He uncovers the deeps out of darkness and brings deep darkness to light.  
Jb1223 He makes nations great, and he destroys them; he enlarges nations, and leads them away.  
Jb1224 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a trackless waste.  
Jb1225 They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.  
Jb1301 “Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.  
Jb1302 What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.  
Jb1303 But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.  
Jb1304 As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.  
Jb1305 Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!  
Jb1306 Hear now my argument and listen to the pleadings of my lips.  
Jb1307 Will you speak falsely for God and speak deceitfully for him?  
Jb1308 Will you show partiality toward him? Will you plead the case for God?  
Jb1309 Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?  
Jb1310 He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.  
Jb1311 Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?  
Jb1312 Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.  
Jb1313 “Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.  
Jb1314 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?  
Jb1315 Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.  
Jb1316 This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him.  
Jb1317 Keep listening to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.  
Jb1318 Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.  
Jb1319 Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.  
Jb1320 Only grant me two things, then I will not hide myself from your face:  
Jb1321 withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me.  
Jb1322 Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.  
Jb1323 How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.  
Jb1324 Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?  
Jb1325 Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?  
Jb1326 For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.  
Jb1327 You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet.  
Jb1328 Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.  
Jb1401 “Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble.  
Jb1402 He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.  
Jb1403 And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?  
Jb1404 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.  
Jb1405 Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,  
Jb1406 look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.  
Jb1407 “For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.  
Jb1408 Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil,  
Jb1409 yet at the scent of water it will bud and put out branches like a young plant.  
Jb1410 But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?  
Jb1411 As waters fail from a lake and a river wastes away and dries up,  
Jb1412 so a man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep.  
Jb1413 Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!  
Jb1414 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.  
Jb1415 You would call, and I would answer you; you would long for the work of your hands.  
Jb1416 For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin;  
Jb1417 my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.  
Jb1418 “But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;  
Jb1419 the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man.  
Jb1420 You prevail forever against him, and he passes; you change his countenance, and send him away.  
Jb1421 His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.  
Jb1422 He feels only the pain of his own body, and he mourns only for himself.”  
Jb1501 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:  
Jb1502 “Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?  
Jb1503 Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good?  
Jb1504 But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God.  
Jb1505 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.  
Jb1506 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.  
Jb1507 “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?  
Jb1508 Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?  
Jb1509 What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?  
Jb1510 Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.  
Jb1511 Are the comforts of God too small for you, or the word that deals gently with you?  
Jb1512 Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash,  
Jb1513 that you turn your spirit against God and bring such words out of your mouth?  
Jb1514 What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?  
Jb1515 Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;  
Jb1516 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!  
Jb1517 “I will show you; hear me, and what I have seen I will declare  
Jb1518 (what wise men have told, without hiding it from their fathers,  
Jb1519 to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them).  
Jb1520 The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.  
Jb1521 Dreadful sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.  
Jb1522 He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.  
Jb1523 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;  
Jb1524 distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him, like a king ready for battle.  
Jb1525 Because he has stretched out his hand against God and defies the Almighty,  
Jb1526 running stubbornly against him with a thickly bossed shield;  
Jb1527 because he has covered his face with his fat and gathered fat upon his waist  
Jb1528 and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins;  
Jb1529 he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth;  
Jb1530 he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.  
Jb1531 Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment.  
Jb1532 It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not be green.  
Jb1533 He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.  
Jb1534 For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.  
Jb1535 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit.”  
Jb1601 Then Job answered and said:  
Jb1602 “I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.  
Jb1603 Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?  
Jb1604 I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.  
Jb1605 I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.  
Jb1606 “If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?  
Jb1607 Surely now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.  
Jb1608 And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.  
Jb1609 He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.  
Jb1610 Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.  
Jb1611 God gives me up to the ungodly and casts me into the hands of the wicked.  
Jb1612 I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;  
Jb1613 his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.  
Jb1614 He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a warrior.  
Jb1615 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.  
Jb1616 My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is deep darkness,  
Jb1617 although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.  
Jb1618 “O earth, cover not my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.  
Jb1619 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high.  
Jb1620 My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,  
Jb1621 that he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.  
Jb1622 For when a few years have come I shall go the way from which I shall not return.  
Jb1701 “My spirit is broken; my days are extinct; the graveyard is ready for me.  
Jb1702 Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.  
Jb1703 “Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me?  
Jb1704 Since you have closed their hearts to understanding, therefore you will not let them triumph.  
Jb1705 He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail.  
Jb1706 “He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.  
Jb1707 My eye has grown dim from vexation, and all my members are like a shadow.  
Jb1708 The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent stirs himself up against the godless.  
Jb1709 Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.  
Jb1710 But you, come on again, all of you, and I shall not find a wise man among you.  
Jb1711 My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.  
Jb1712 They make night into day: ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’  
Jb1713 If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness,  
Jb1714 if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’  
Jb1715 where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?  
Jb1716 Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?”  
Jb1801 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:  
Jb1802 “How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.  
Jb1803 Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?  
Jb1804 You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?  
Jb1805 “Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.  
Jb1806 The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.  
Jb1807 His strong steps are shortened, and his own schemes throw him down.  
Jb1808 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.  
Jb1809 A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare lays hold of him.  
Jb1810 A rope is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the path.  
Jb1811 Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.  
Jb1812 His strength is famished, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.  
Jb1813 It consumes the parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs.  
Jb1814 He is torn from the tent in which he trusted and is brought to the king of terrors.  
Jb1815 In his tent dwells that which is none of his; sulfur is scattered over his habitation.  
Jb1816 His roots dry up beneath, and his branches wither above.  
Jb1817 His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.  
Jb1818 He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.  
Jb1819 He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.  
Jb1820 They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.  
Jb1821 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who knows not God.”  
Jb1901 Then Job answered and said:  
Jb1902 “How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?  
Jb1903 These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me?  
Jb1904 And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.  
Jb1905 If indeed you magnify yourselves against me and make my disgrace an argument against me,  
Jb1906 know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me.  
Jb1907 Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.  
Jb1908 He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.  
Jb1909 He has stripped from me my glory and taken the crown from my head.  
Jb1910 He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.  
Jb1911 He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary.  
Jb1912 His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.  
Jb1913 “He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.  
Jb1914 My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me.  
Jb1915 The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.  
Jb1916 I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy.  
Jb1917 My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.  
Jb1918 Even young children despise me; when I rise they talk against me.  
Jb1919 All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.  
Jb1920 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.  
Jb1921 Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!  
Jb1922 Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?  
Jb1923 “Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!  
Jb1924 Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!  
Jb1925 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth.  
Jb1926 And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God,  
Jb1927 whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!  
Jb1928 If you say, ‘How we will pursue him!’ and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’  
Jb1929 be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”  
Jb2001 Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said:  
Jb2002 “Therefore my thoughts answer me, because of my haste within me.  
Jb2003 I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.  
Jb2004 Do you not know this from of old, since man was placed on earth,  
Jb2005 that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?  
Jb2006 Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,  
Jb2007 he will perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’  
Jb2008 He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.  
Jb2009 The eye that saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.  
Jb2010 His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will give back his wealth.  
Jb2011 His bones are full of his youthful vigor, but it will lie down with him in the dust.  
Jb2012 “Though evil is sweet in his mouth, though he hides it under his tongue,  
Jb2013 though he is loath to let it go and holds it in his mouth,  
Jb2014 yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the venom of cobras within him.  
Jb2015 He swallows down riches and vomits them up again; God casts them out of his belly.  
Jb2016 He will suck the poison of cobras; the tongue of a viper will kill him.  
Jb2017 He will not look upon the rivers, the streams flowing with honey and curds.  
Jb2018 He will give back the fruit of his toil and will not swallow it down; from the profit of his trading he will get no enjoyment.  
Jb2019 For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he did not build.  
Jb2020 “Because he knew no contentment in his belly, he will not let anything in which he delights escape him.  
Jb2021 There was nothing left after he had eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure.  
Jb2022 In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress; the hand of everyone in misery will come against him.  
Jb2023 To fill his belly to the full, God will send his burning anger against him and rain it upon him into his body.  
Jb2024 He will flee from an iron weapon; a bronze arrow will strike him through.  
Jb2025 It is drawn forth and comes out of his body; the glittering point comes out of his gallbladder; terrors come upon him.  
Jb2026 Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not fanned will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed.  
Jb2027 The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.  
Jb2028 The possessions of his house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God’s wrath.  
Jb2029 This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the heritage decreed for him by God.”  
Jb2101 Then Job answered and said:  
Jb2102 “Keep listening to my words, and let this be your comfort.  
Jb2103 Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.  
Jb2104 As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?  
Jb2105 Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.  
Jb2106 When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.  
Jb2107 Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?  
Jb2108 Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes.  
Jb2109 Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.  
Jb2110 Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.  
Jb2111 They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance.  
Jb2112 They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.  
Jb2113 They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.  
Jb2114 They say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.  
Jb2115 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’  
Jb2116 Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.  
Jb2117 “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?  
Jb2118 That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?  
Jb2119 You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.  
Jb2120 Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.  
Jb2121 For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?  
Jb2122 Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?  
Jb2123 One dies in his full vigor, being wholly at ease and secure,  
Jb2124 his pails full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist.  
Jb2125 Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity.  
Jb2126 They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.  
Jb2127 “Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.  
Jb2128 For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’  
Jb2129 Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony  
Jb2130 that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?  
Jb2131 Who declares his way to his face, and who repays him for what he has done?  
Jb2132 When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.  
Jb2133 The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.  
Jb2134 How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”  
Jb2201 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:  
Jb2202 “Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.  
Jb2203 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?  
Jb2204 Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you and enters into judgment with you?  
Jb2205 Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities.  
Jb2206 For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing.  
Jb2207 You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.  
Jb2208 The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man lived in it.  
Jb2209 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.  
Jb2210 Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you,  
Jb2211 or darkness, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.  
Jb2212 “Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!  
Jb2213 But you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?  
Jb2214 Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.’  
Jb2215 Will you keep to the old way that wicked men have trod?  
Jb2216 They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.  
Jb2217 They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’  
Jb2218 Yet he filled their houses with good things— but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.  
Jb2219 The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent one mocks at them,  
Jb2220 saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left the fire has consumed.’  
Jb2221 “Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.  
Jb2222 Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.  
Jb2223 If you return to the Almighty you will be built up; if you remove injustice far from your tents,  
Jb2224 if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent- bed,  
Jb2225 then the Almighty will be your gold and your precious silver.  
Jb2226 For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.  
Jb2227 You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows.  
Jb2228 You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.  
Jb2229 For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride’; but he saves the lowly.  
Jb2230 He delivers even the one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”  
Jb2301 Then Job answered and said:  
Jb2302 “Today also my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy on account of my groaning.  
Jb2303 Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!  
Jb2304 I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.  
Jb2305 I would know what he would answer me and understand what he would say to me.  
Jb2306 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; he would pay attention to me.  
Jb2307 There an upright man could argue with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.  
Jb2308 “Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I do not perceive him;  
Jb2309 on the left hand when he is working, I do not behold him; he turns to the right hand, but I do not see him.  
Jb2310 But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.  
Jb2311 My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside.  
Jb2312 I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.  
Jb2313 But he is unchangeable, and who can turn him back? What he desires, that he does.  
Jb2314 For he will complete what he appoints for me, and many such things are in his mind.  
Jb2315 Therefore I am terrified at his presence; when I consider, I am in dread of him.  
Jb2316 God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me;  
Jb2317 yet I am not silenced because of the darkness, nor because thick darkness covers my face.  
Jb2401 “Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?  
Jb2402 Some move landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.  
Jb2403 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.  
Jb2404 They thrust the poor off the road; the poor of the earth all hide themselves.  
Jb2405 Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.  
Jb2406 They gather their fodder in the field, and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.  
Jb2407 They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.  
Jb2408 They are wet with the rain of the mountains and cling to the rock for lack of shelter.  
Jb2409 (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)  
Jb2410 They go about naked, without clothing; hungry, they carry the sheaves;  
Jb2411 among the olive rows of the wicked they make oil; they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.  
Jb2412 From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.  
Jb2413 “There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.  
Jb2414 The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.  
Jb2415 The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me’; and he veils his face.  
Jb2416 In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.  
Jb2417 For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.  
Jb2418 “You say, ‘Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.  
Jb2419 Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters; so does Sheol those who have sinned.  
Jb2420 The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.’  
Jb2421 “They wrong the barren, childless woman, and do no good to the widow.  
Jb2422 Yet God prolongs the life of the mighty by his power; they rise up when they despair of life.  
Jb2423 He gives them security, and they are supported, and his eyes are upon their ways.  
Jb2424 They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like the heads of grain.  
Jb2425 If it is not so, who will prove me a liar and show that there is nothing in what I say?”  
Jb2501 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said:  
Jb2502 “Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high heaven.  
Jb2503 Is there any number to his armies? Upon whom does his light not arise?  
Jb2504 How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?  
Jb2505 Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes;  
Jb2506 how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!”  
Jb2601 Then Job answered and said:  
Jb2602 “How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!  
Jb2603 How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!  
Jb2604 With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath has come out from you?  
Jb2605 The dead tremble under the waters and their inhabitants.  
Jb2606 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.  
Jb2607 He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.  
Jb2608 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them.  
Jb2609 He covers the face of the full moon and spreads over it his cloud.  
Jb2610 He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.  
Jb2611 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke.  
Jb2612 By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.  
Jb2613 By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.  
Jb2614 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”  
Jb2701 And Job again took up his discourse, and said:  
Jb2702 “As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,  
Jb2703 as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,  
Jb2704 my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit.  
Jb2705 Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.  
Jb2706 I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.  
Jb2707 “Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.  
Jb2708 For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?  
Jb2709 Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?  
Jb2710 Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?  
Jb2711 I will teach you concerning the hand of God; what is with the Almighty I will not conceal.  
Jb2712 Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?  
Jb2713 “This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:  
Jb2714 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and his descendants have not enough bread.  
Jb2715 Those who survive him the pestilence buries, and his widows do not weep.  
Jb2716 Though he heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay,  
Jb2717 he may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.  
Jb2718 He builds his house like a moth’s, like a booth that a watchman makes.  
Jb2719 He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone.  
Jb2720 Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.  
Jb2721 The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.  
Jb2722 It hurls at him without pity; he flees from its power in headlong flight.  
Jb2723 It claps its hands at him and hisses at him from its place.  
Jb2801 “Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold that they refine.  
Jb2802 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from the ore.  
Jb2803 Man puts an end to darkness and searches out to the farthest limit the ore in gloom and deep darkness.  
Jb2804 He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives; they are forgotten by travelers; they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro.  
Jb2805 As for the earth, out of it comes bread, but underneath it is turned up as by fire.  
Jb2806 Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.  
Jb2807 “That path no bird of prey knows, and the falcon’s eye has not seen it.  
Jb2808 The proud beasts have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it.  
Jb2809 “Man puts his hand to the flinty rock and overturns mountains by the roots.  
Jb2810 He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.  
Jb2811 He dams up the streams so that they do not trickle, and the thing that is hidden he brings out to light.  
Jb2812 “But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?  
Jb2813 Man does not know its worth, and it is not found in the land of the living.  
Jb2814 The deep says, ‘It is not in me,’ and the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’  
Jb2815 It cannot be bought for gold, and silver cannot be weighed as its price.  
Jb2816 It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.  
Jb2817 Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.  
Jb2818 No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls.  
Jb2819 The topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it, nor can it be valued in pure gold.  
Jb2820 “From where, then, does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding?  
Jb2821 It is hidden from the eyes of all living and concealed from the birds of the air.  
Jb2822 Abaddon and Death say, ‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’  
Jb2823 “God understands the way to it, and he knows its place.  
Jb2824 For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.  
Jb2825 When he gave to the wind its weight and apportioned the waters by measure,  
Jb2826 when he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder,  
Jb2827 then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out.  
Jb2828 And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”  
Jb2901 And Job again took up his discourse, and said:  
Jb2902 “Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me,  
Jb2903 when his lamp shone upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,  
Jb2904 as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,  
Jb2905 when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were all around me,  
Jb2906 when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!  
Jb2907 When I went out to the gate of the city, when I prepared my seat in the square,  
Jb2908 the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood;  
Jb2909 the princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth;  
Jb2910 the voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.  
Jb2911 When the ear heard, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw, it approved,  
Jb2912 because I delivered the poor who cried for help, and the fatherless who had none to help him.  
Jb2913 The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.  
Jb2914 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban.  
Jb2915 I was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame.  
Jb2916 I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.  
Jb2917 I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made him drop his prey from his teeth.  
Jb2918 Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,  
Jb2919 my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches,  
Jb2920 my glory fresh with me, and my bow ever new in my hand.’  
Jb2921 “Men listened to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel.  
Jb2922 After I spoke they did not speak again, and my word dropped upon them.  
Jb2923 They waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouths as for the spring rain.  
Jb2924 I smiled on them when they had no confidence, and the light of my face they did not cast down.  
Jb2925 I chose their way and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.  
Jb3001 “But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.  
Jb3002 What could I gain from the strength of their hands, men whose vigor is gone?  
Jb3003 Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation;  
Jb3004 they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes, and the roots of the broom tree for their food.  
Jb3005 They are driven out from human company; they shout after them as after a thief.  
Jb3006 In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.  
Jb3007 Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together.  
Jb3008 A senseless, a nameless brood, they have been whipped out of the land.  
Jb3009 “And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them.  
Jb3010 They abhor me; they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.  
Jb3011 Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.  
Jb3012 On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction.  
Jb3013 They break up my path; they promote my calamity; they need no one to help them.  
Jb3014 As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on.  
Jb3015 Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.  
Jb3016 “And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.  
Jb3017 The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.  
Jb3018 With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.  
Jb3019 God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.  
Jb3020 I cry to you for help and you do not answer me; I stand, and you only look at me.  
Jb3021 You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me.  
Jb3022 You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it, and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.  
Jb3023 For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.  
Jb3024 “Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help?  
Jb3025 Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?  
Jb3026 But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.  
Jb3027 My inward parts are in turmoil and never still; days of affliction come to meet me.  
Jb3028 I go about darkened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.  
Jb3029 I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.  
Jb3030 My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.  
Jb3031 My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.  
Jb3101 “I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?  
Jb3102 What would be my portion from God above and my heritage from the Almighty on high?  
Jb3103 Is not calamity for the unrighteous, and disaster for the workers of iniquity?  
Jb3104 Does not he see my ways and number all my steps?  
Jb3105 “If I have walked with falsehood and my foot has hastened to deceit;  
Jb3106 (Let me be weighed in a just balance, and let God know my integrity!)  
Jb3107 if my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands,  
Jb3108 then let me sow, and another eat, and let what grows for me be rooted out.  
Jb3109 “If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,  
Jb3110 then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down on her.  
Jb3111 For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;  
Jb3112 for that would be a fire that consumes as far as Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase.  
Jb3113 “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me,  
Jb3114 what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him?  
Jb3115 Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?  
Jb3116 “If I have withheld anything that the poor desired, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,  
Jb3117 or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it  
Jb3118 (for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow),  
Jb3119 if I have seen anyone perish for lack of clothing, or the needy without covering,  
Jb3120 if his body has not blessed me, and if he was not warmed with the fleece of my sheep,  
Jb3121 if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,  
Jb3122 then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.  
Jb3123 For I was in terror of calamity from God, and I could not have faced his majesty.  
Jb3124 “If I have made gold my trust or called fine gold my confidence,  
Jb3125 if I have rejoiced because my wealth was abundant or because my hand had found much,  
Jb3126 if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor,  
Jb3127 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand,  
Jb3128 this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have been false to God above.  
Jb3129 “If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him who hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him  
Jb3130 (I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse),  
Jb3131 if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who is there that has not been filled with his meat?’  
Jb3132 (the sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveler),  
Jb3133 if I have concealed my transgressions as others do by hiding my iniquity in my heart,  
Jb3134 because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors—  
Jb3135 Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!  
Jb3136 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me as a crown;  
Jb3137 I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him.  
Jb3138 “If my land has cried out against me and its furrows have wept together,  
Jb3139 if I have eaten its yield without payment and made its owners breathe their last,  
Jb3140 let thorns grow instead of wheat, and foul weeds instead of barley.” The words of Job are ended.  
Jb3201 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.  
Jb3202 Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God.  
Jb3203 He burned with anger also at Job’s three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.  
Jb3204 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he.  
Jb3205 And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, he burned with anger.  
Jb3206 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: “I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.  
Jb3207 I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’  
Jb3208 But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.  
Jb3209 It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.  
Jb3210 Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me; let me also declare my opinion.’  
Jb3211 “Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your wise sayings, while you searched out what to say.  
Jb3212 I gave you my attention, and, behold, there was none among you who refuted Job or who answered his words.  
Jb3213 Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not a man.’  
Jb3214 He has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your speeches.  
Jb3215 “They are dismayed; they answer no more; they have not a word to say.  
Jb3216 And shall I wait, because they do not speak, because they stand there, and answer no more?  
Jb3217 I also will answer with my share; I also will declare my opinion.  
Jb3218 For I am full of words; the spirit within me constrains me.  
Jb3219 Behold, my belly is like wine that has no vent; like new wineskins ready to burst.  
Jb3220 I must speak, that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.  
Jb3221 I will not show partiality to any man or use flattery toward any person.  
Jb3222 For I do not know how to flatter, else my Maker would soon take me away.  
Jb3301 “But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.  
Jb3302 Behold, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks.  
Jb3303 My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.  
Jb3304 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.  
Jb3305 Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.  
Jb3306 Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.  
Jb3307 Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure will not be heavy upon you.  
Jb3308 “Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of your words.  
Jb3309 You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.  
Jb3310 Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy,  
Jb3311 he puts my feet in the stocks and watches all my paths.’  
Jb3312 “Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.  
Jb3313 Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of man’s words’?  
Jb3314 For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.  
Jb3315 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds,  
Jb3316 then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings,  
Jb3317 that he may turn man aside from his deed and conceal pride from a man;  
Jb3318 he keeps back his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword.  
Jb3319 “Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones,  
Jb3320 so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite the choicest food.  
Jb3321 His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out.  
Jb3322 His soul draws near the pit, and his life to those who bring death.  
Jb3323 If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him,  
Jb3324 and he is merciful to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom;  
Jb3325 let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor’;  
Jb3326 then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.  
Jb3327 He sings before men and says: ‘I sinned and perverted what was right, and it was not repaid to me.  
Jb3328 He has redeemed my soul from going down into the pit, and my life shall look upon the light.’  
Jb3329 “Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man,  
Jb3330 to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be lighted with the light of life.  
Jb3331 Pay attention, O Job, listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.  
Jb3332 If you have any words, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.  
Jb3333 If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”  
Jb3401 Then Elihu answered and said:  
Jb3402 “Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know;  
Jb3403 for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.  
Jb3404 Let us choose what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.  
Jb3405 For Job has said, ‘I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;  
Jb3406 in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’  
Jb3407 What man is like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water,  
Jb3408 who travels in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men?  
Jb3409 For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’  
Jb3410 “Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding: far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.  
Jb3411 For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.  
Jb3412 Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.  
Jb3413 Who gave him charge over the earth, and who laid on him the whole world?  
Jb3414 If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath,  
Jb3415 all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.  
Jb3416 “If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say.  
Jb3417 Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,  
Jb3418 who says to a king, ‘Worthless one,’ and to nobles, ‘Wicked man,’  
Jb3419 who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?  
Jb3420 In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.  
Jb3421 “For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.  
Jb3422 There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.  
Jb3423 For God has no need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.  
Jb3424 He shatters the mighty without investigation and sets others in their place.  
Jb3425 Thus, knowing their works, he overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.  
Jb3426 He strikes them for their wickedness in a place for all to see,  
Jb3427 because they turned aside from following him and had no regard for any of his ways,  
Jb3428 so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the afflicted—  
Jb3429 When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?—  
Jb3430 that a godless man should not reign, that he should not ensnare the people.  
Jb3431 “For has anyone said to God, ‘I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more;  
Jb3432 teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?  
Jb3433 Will he then make repayment to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.  
Jb3434 Men of understanding will say to me, and the wise man who hears me will say:  
Jb3435 ‘Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.’  
Jb3436 Would that Job were tried to the end, because he answers like wicked men.  
Jb3437 For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”  
Jb3501 And Elihu answered and said:  
Jb3502 “Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’  
Jb3503 that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’  
Jb3504 I will answer you and your friends with you.  
Jb3505 Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.  
Jb3506 If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?  
Jb3507 If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?  
Jb3508 Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.  
Jb3509 “Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.  
Jb3510 But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,  
Jb3511 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’  
Jb3512 There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.  
Jb3513 Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.  
Jb3514 How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!  
Jb3515 And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not take much note of transgression,  
Jb3516 Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge.”  
Jb3601 And Elihu continued, and said:  
Jb3602 “Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God’s behalf.  
Jb3603 I will get my knowledge from afar and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.  
Jb3604 For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.  
Jb3605 “Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.  
Jb3606 He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.  
Jb3607 He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted.  
Jb3608 And if they are bound in chains and caught in the cords of affliction,  
Jb3609 then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.  
Jb3610 He opens their ears to instruction and commands that they return from iniquity.  
Jb3611 If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.  
Jb3612 But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.  
Jb3613 “The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.  
Jb3614 They die in youth, and their life ends among the cult prostitutes.  
Jb3615 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.  
Jb3616 He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.  
Jb3617 “But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; judgment and justice seize you.  
Jb3618 Beware lest wrath entice you into scoffing, and let not the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.  
Jb3619 Will your cry for help avail to keep you from distress, or all the force of your strength?  
Jb3620 Do not long for the night, when peoples vanish in their place.  
Jb3621 Take care; do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.  
Jb3622 Behold, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?  
Jb3623 Who has prescribed for him his way, or who can say, ‘You have done wrong’?  
Jb3624 “Remember to extol his work, of which men have sung.  
Jb3625 All mankind has looked on it; man beholds it from afar.  
Jb3626 Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.  
Jb3627 For he draws up the drops of water; they distill his mist in rain,  
Jb3628 which the skies pour down and drop on mankind abundantly.  
Jb3629 Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?  
Jb3630 Behold, he scatters his lightning about him and covers the roots of the sea.  
Jb3631 For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance.  
Jb3632 He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.  
Jb3633 Its crashing declares his presence; the cattle also declare that he rises.  
Jb3701 “At this also my heart trembles and leaps out of its place.  
Jb3702 Keep listening to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.  
Jb3703 Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.  
Jb3704 After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.  
Jb3705 God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend.  
Jb3706 For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.  
Jb3707 He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he made may know it.  
Jb3708 Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens.  
Jb3709 From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.  
Jb3710 By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast.  
Jb3711 He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.  
Jb3712 They turn around and around by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world.  
Jb3713 Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.  
Jb3714 “Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.  
Jb3715 Do you know how God lays his command upon them and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?  
Jb3716 Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,  
Jb3717 you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind?  
Jb3718 Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror?  
Jb3719 Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.  
Jb3720 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?  
Jb3721 “And now no one looks on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.  
Jb3722 Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed with awesome majesty.  
Jb3723 The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.  
Jb3724 Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”  
Jb3801 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:  
Jb3802 “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?  
Jb3803 Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.  
Jb3804 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.  
Jb3805 Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it?  
Jb3806 On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone,  
Jb3807 when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?  
Jb3808 “Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,  
Jb3809 when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,  
Jb3810 and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors,  
Jb3811 and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?  
Jb3812 “Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,  
Jb3813 that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?  
Jb3814 It is changed like clay under the seal, and its features stand out like a garment.  
Jb3815 From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken.  
Jb3816 “Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?  
Jb3817 Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?  
Jb3818 Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.  
Jb3819 “Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness,  
Jb3820 that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home?  
Jb3821 You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!  
Jb3822 “Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,  
Jb3823 which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?  
Jb3824 What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?  
Jb3825 “Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain and a way for the thunderbolt,  
Jb3826 to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man,  
Jb3827 to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground sprout with grass?  
Jb3828 “Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of dew?  
Jb3829 From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the frost of heaven?  
Jb3830 The waters become hard like stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.  
Jb3831 “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades or loose the cords of Orion?  
Jb3832 Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season, or can you guide the Bear with its children?  
Jb3833 Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?  
Jb3834 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you?  
Jb3835 Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, ‘Here we are’?  
Jb3836 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind?  
Jb3837 Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,  
Jb3838 when the dust runs into a mass and the clods stick fast together?  
Jb3839 “Can you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,  
Jb3840 when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in their thicket?  
Jb3841 Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, and wander about for lack of food?  
Jb3901 “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the does?  
Jb3902 Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth,  
Jb3903 when they crouch, bring forth their offspring, and are delivered of their young?  
Jb3904 Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them.  
Jb3905 “Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,  
Jb3906 to whom I have given the arid plain for his home and the salt land for his dwelling place?  
Jb3907 He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.  
Jb3908 He ranges the mountains as his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.  
Jb3909 “Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he spend the night at your manger?  
Jb3910 Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?  
Jb3911 Will you depend on him because his strength is great, and will you leave to him your labor?  
Jb3912 Do you have faith in him that he will return your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?  
Jb3913 “The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are they the pinions and plumage of love?  
Jb3914 For she leaves her eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground,  
Jb3915 forgetting that a foot may crush them and that the wild beast may trample them.  
Jb3916 She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,  
Jb3917 because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding.  
Jb3918 When she rouses herself to flee, she laughs at the horse and his rider.  
Jb3919 “Do you give the horse his might? Do you clothe his neck with a mane?  
Jb3920 Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrifying.  
Jb3921 He paws in the valley and exults in his strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.  
Jb3922 He laughs at fear and is not dismayed; he does not turn back from the sword.  
Jb3923 Upon him rattle the quiver, the flashing spear, and the javelin.  
Jb3924 With fierceness and rage he swallows the ground; he cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.  
Jb3925 When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.  
Jb3926 “Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south?  
Jb3927 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?  
Jb3928 On the rock he dwells and makes his home, on the rocky crag and stronghold.  
Jb3929 From there he spies out the prey; his eyes behold it from far away.  
Jb3930 His young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there is he.”  
Jb4001 And the LORD said to Job:  
Jb4002 “Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”  
Jb4003 Then Job answered the LORD and said:  
Jb4004 “Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.  
Jb4005 I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further.”  
Jb4006 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:  
Jb4007 “Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me.  
Jb4008 Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?  
Jb4009 Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?  
Jb4010 “Adorn yourself with majesty and dignity; clothe yourself with glory and splendor.  
Jb4011 Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on everyone who is proud and abase him.  
Jb4012 Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.  
Jb4013 Hide them all in the dust together; bind their faces in the world below.  
Jb4014 Then will I also acknowledge to you that your own right hand can save you.  
Jb4015 “Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox.  
Jb4016 Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly.  
Jb4017 He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together.  
Jb4018 His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.  
Jb4019 “He is the first of the works of God; let him who made him bring near his sword!  
Jb4020 For the mountains yield food for him where all the wild beasts play.  
Jb4021 Under the lotus plants he lies, in the shelter of the reeds and in the marsh.  
Jb4022 For his shade the lotus trees cover him; the willows of the brook surround him.  
Jb4023 Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened; he is confident though Jordan rushes against his mouth.  
Jb4024 Can one take him by his eyes, or pierce his nose with a snare?  
Jb4101 “Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord?  
Jb4102 Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?  
Jb4103 Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words?  
Jb4104 Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever?  
Jb4105 Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls?  
Jb4106 Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?  
Jb4107 Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?  
Jb4108 Lay your hands on him; remember the battle—you will not do it again!  
Jb4109 Behold, the hope of a man is false; he is laid low even at the sight of him.  
Jb4110 No one is so fierce that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?  
Jb4111 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.  
Jb4112 “I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, or his mighty strength, or his goodly frame.  
Jb4113 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who would come near him with a bridle?  
Jb4114 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.  
Jb4115 His back is made of rows of shields, shut up closely as with a seal.  
Jb4116 One is so near to another that no air can come between them.  
Jb4117 They are joined one to another; they clasp each other and cannot be separated.  
Jb4118 His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the dawn.  
Jb4119 Out of his mouth go flaming torches; sparks of fire leap forth.  
Jb4120 Out of his nostrils comes forth smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.  
Jb4121 His breath kindles coals, and a flame comes forth from his mouth.  
Jb4122 In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.  
Jb4123 The folds of his flesh stick together, firmly cast on him and immovable.  
Jb4124 His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone.  
Jb4125 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.  
Jb4126 Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail, nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.  
Jb4127 He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.  
Jb4128 The arrow cannot make him flee; for him, sling stones are turned to stubble.  
Jb4129 Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins.  
Jb4130 His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.  
Jb4131 He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.  
Jb4132 Behind him he leaves a shining wake; one would think the deep to be white-haired.  
Jb4133 On earth there is not his like, a creature without fear.  
Jb4134 He sees everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride.”  
Jb4201 Then Job answered the LORD and said:  
Jb4202 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.  
Jb4203 ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.  
Jb4204 ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.’  
Jb4205 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you;  
Jb4206 therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”  
Jb4207 After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.  
Jb4208 Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”  
Jb4209 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the LORD had told them, and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer.  
Jb4210 And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.  
Jb4211 Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.  
Jb4212 And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.  
Jb4213 He had also seven sons and three daughters.  
Jb4214 And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch.  
Jb4215 And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.  
Jb4216 And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, four generations.  
Jb4217 And Job died, an old man, and full of days.  
Ps00101 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;  
Ps00102 but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.  
Ps00103 He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.  
Ps00104 The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.  
Ps00105 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;  
Ps00106 for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.  
Ps00201 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?  
Ps00202 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying,  
Ps00203 “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”  
Ps00204 He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.  
Ps00205 Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying,  
Ps00206 “As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.”  
Ps00207 I will tell of the decree: The LORD said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you.  
Ps00208 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.  
Ps00209 You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”  
Ps00210 Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.  
Ps00211 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.  
Ps00212 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.  
Ps00301 O LORD, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;  
Ps00302 many are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah  
Ps00303 But you, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.  
Ps00304 I cried aloud to the LORD, and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah  
Ps00305 I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me.  
Ps00306 I will not be afraid of many thousands of people who have set themselves against me all around.  
Ps00307 Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.  
Ps00308 Salvation belongs to the LORD; your blessing be on your people! Selah  
Ps00401 Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!  
Ps00402 O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah  
Ps00403 But know that the LORD has set apart the godly for himself; the LORD hears when I call to him.  
Ps00404 Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah  
Ps00405 Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the LORD.  
Ps00406 There are many who say, “Who will show us some good? Lift up the light of your face upon us, O LORD!”  
Ps00407 You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.  
Ps00408 In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.  
Ps00501 Give ear to my words, O LORD; consider my groaning.  
Ps00502 Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray.  
Ps00503 O LORD, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.  
Ps00504 For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.  
Ps00505 The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.  
Ps00506 You destroy those who speak lies; the LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.  
Ps00507 But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.  
Ps00508 Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before me.  
Ps00509 For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.  
Ps00510 Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.  
Ps00511 But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you.  
Ps00512 For you bless the righteous, O LORD; you cover him with favor as with a shield.  
Ps00601 O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath.  
Ps00602 Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are troubled.  
Ps00603 My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O LORD—how long?  
Ps00604 Turn, O LORD, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love.  
Ps00605 For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?  
Ps00606 I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.  
Ps00607 My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes.  
Ps00608 Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.  
Ps00609 The LORD has heard my plea; the LORD accepts my prayer.  
Ps00610 All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled; they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment.  
Ps00701 O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,  
Ps00702 lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.  
Ps00703 O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,  
Ps00704 if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,  
Ps00705 let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah  
Ps00706 Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.  
Ps00707 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high.  
Ps00708 The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.  
Ps00709 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!  
Ps00710 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.  
Ps00711 God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.  
Ps00712 If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;  
Ps00713 he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.  
Ps00714 Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.  
Ps00715 He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made.  
Ps00716 His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.  
Ps00717 I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.  
Ps00801 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.  
Ps00802 Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.  
Ps00803 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,  
Ps00804 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?  
Ps00805 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.  
Ps00806 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,  
Ps00807 all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,  
Ps00808 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.  
Ps00809 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!  
Ps00901 I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.  
Ps00902 I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.  
Ps00903 When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before your presence.  
Ps00904 For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.  
Ps00905 You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.  
Ps00906 The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins; their cities you rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.  
Ps00907 But the LORD sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice,  
Ps00908 and he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness.  
Ps00909 The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.  
Ps00910 And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.  
Ps00911 Sing praises to the LORD, who sits enthroned in Zion! Tell among the peoples his deeds!  
Ps00912 For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.  
Ps00913 Be gracious to me, O LORD! See my affliction from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gates of death,  
Ps00914 that I may recount all your praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in your salvation.  
Ps00915 The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.  
Ps00916 The LORD has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah  
Ps00917 The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.  
Ps00918 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.  
Ps00919 Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before you!  
Ps00920 Put them in fear, O LORD! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah  
Ps01001 Why, O LORD, do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?  
Ps01002 In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.  
Ps01003 For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the LORD.  
Ps01004 In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”  
Ps01005 His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.  
Ps01006 He says in his heart, “I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.”  
Ps01007 His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.  
Ps01008 He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;  
Ps01009 he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.  
Ps01010 The helpless are crushed, sink down, and fall by his might.  
Ps01011 He says in his heart, “God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”  
Ps01012 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted.  
Ps01013 Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”?  
Ps01014 But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.  
Ps01015 Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none.  
Ps01016 The LORD is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land.  
Ps01017 O LORD, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear  
Ps01018 to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.  
Ps01101 In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, “Flee like a bird to your mountain,  
Ps01102 for behold, the wicked bend the bow; they have fitted their arrow to the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;  
Ps01103 if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”  
Ps01104 The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD’s throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.  
Ps01105 The LORD tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.  
Ps01106 Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.  
Ps01107 For the LORD is righteous; he loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold his face.  
Ps01201 Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.  
Ps01202 Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.  
Ps01203 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,  
Ps01204 those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?”  
Ps01205 “Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the LORD; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”  
Ps01206 The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.  
Ps01207 You, O LORD, will keep them; you will guard us from this generation forever.  
Ps01208 On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of man.  
Ps01301 How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?  
Ps01302 How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?  
Ps01303 Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,  
Ps01304 lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,” lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.  
Ps01305 But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.  
Ps01306 I will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.  
Ps01401 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.  
Ps01402 The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.  
Ps01403 They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.  
Ps01404 Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the LORD?  
Ps01405 There they are in great terror, for God is with the generation of the righteous.  
Ps01406 You would shame the plans of the poor, but the LORD is his refuge.  
Ps01407 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.  
Ps01501 O LORD, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill?  
Ps01502 He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart;  
Ps01503 who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;  
Ps01504 in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the LORD; who swears to his own hurt and does not change;  
Ps01505 who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.  
Ps01601 Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.  
Ps01602 I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.”  
Ps01603 As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.  
Ps01604 The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names on my lips.  
Ps01605 The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot.  
Ps01606 The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.  
Ps01607 I bless the LORD who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me.  
Ps01608 I have set the LORD always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.  
Ps01609 Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure.  
Ps01610 For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.  
Ps01611 You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.  
Ps01701 Hear a just cause, O LORD; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!  
Ps01702 From your presence let my vindication come! Let your eyes behold the right!  
Ps01703 You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.  
Ps01704 With regard to the works of man, by the word of your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.  
Ps01705 My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped.  
Ps01706 I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God; incline your ear to me; hear my words.  
Ps01707 Wondrously show your steadfast love, O Savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at your right hand.  
Ps01708 Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings,  
Ps01709 from the wicked who do me violence, my deadly enemies who surround me.  
Ps01710 They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.  
Ps01711 They have now surrounded our steps; they set their eyes to cast us to the ground.  
Ps01712 He is like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush.  
Ps01713 Arise, O LORD! Confront him, subdue him! Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword,  
Ps01714 from men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their womb with treasure; they are satisfied with children, and they leave their abundance to their infants.  
Ps01715 As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.  
Ps01801 I love you, O LORD, my strength.  
Ps01802 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.  
Ps01803 I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.  
Ps01804 The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of destruction assailed me;  
Ps01805 the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.  
Ps01806 In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.  
Ps01807 Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry.  
Ps01808 Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him.  
Ps01809 He bowed the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.  
Ps01810 He rode on a cherub and flew; he came swiftly on the wings of the wind.  
Ps01811 He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him, thick clouds dark with water.  
Ps01812 Out of the brightness before him hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.  
Ps01813 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.  
Ps01814 And he sent out his arrows and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings and routed them.  
Ps01815 Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.  
Ps01816 He sent from on high, he took me; he drew me out of many waters.  
Ps01817 He rescued me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.  
Ps01818 They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.  
Ps01819 He brought me out into a broad place; he rescued me, because he delighted in me.  
Ps01820 The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.  
Ps01821 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.  
Ps01822 For all his rules were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.  
Ps01823 I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my guilt.  
Ps01824 So the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.  
Ps01825 With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless;  
Ps01826 with the purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.  
Ps01827 For you save a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down.  
Ps01828 For it is you who light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness.  
Ps01829 For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.  
Ps01830 This God—his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.  
Ps01831 For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?—  
Ps01832 the God who equipped me with strength and made my way blameless.  
Ps01833 He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights.  
Ps01834 He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.  
Ps01835 You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your gentleness made me great.  
Ps01836 You gave a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.  
Ps01837 I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and did not turn back till they were consumed.  
Ps01838 I thrust them through, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet.  
Ps01839 For you equipped me with strength for the battle; you made those who rise against me sink under me.  
Ps01840 You made my enemies turn their backs to me, and those who hated me I destroyed.  
Ps01841 They cried for help, but there was none to save; they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them.  
Ps01842 I beat them fine as dust before the wind; I cast them out like the mire of the streets.  
Ps01843 You delivered me from strife with the people; you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.  
Ps01844 As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me.  
Ps01845 Foreigners lost heart and came trembling out of their fortresses.  
Ps01846 The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation—  
Ps01847 the God who gave me vengeance and subdued peoples under me,  
Ps01848 who rescued me from my enemies; yes, you exalted me above those who rose against me; you delivered me from the man of violence.  
Ps01849 For this I will praise you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing to your name.  
Ps01850 Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.  
Ps01901 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.  
Ps01902 Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.  
Ps01903 There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard.  
Ps01904 Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,  
Ps01905 which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.  
Ps01906 Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.  
Ps01907 The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;  
Ps01908 the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes;  
Ps01909 the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.  
Ps01910 More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.  
Ps01911 Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.  
Ps01912 Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.  
Ps01913 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.  
Ps01914 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.  
Ps02001 May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob protect you!  
Ps02002 May he send you help from the sanctuary and give you support from Zion!  
Ps02003 May he remember all your offerings and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah  
Ps02004 May he grant you your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans!  
Ps02005 May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the LORD fulfill all your petitions!  
Ps02006 Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand.  
Ps02007 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.  
Ps02008 They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand upright.  
Ps02009 O LORD, save the king! May he answer us when we call.  
Ps02101 O LORD, in your strength the king rejoices, and in your salvation how greatly he exults!  
Ps02102 You have given him his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah  
Ps02103 For you meet him with rich blessings; you set a crown of fine gold upon his head.  
Ps02104 He asked life of you; you gave it to him, length of days forever and ever.  
Ps02105 His glory is great through your salvation; splendor and majesty you bestow on him.  
Ps02106 For you make him most blessed forever; you make him glad with the joy of your presence.  
Ps02107 For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved.  
Ps02108 Your hand will find out all your enemies; your right hand will find out those who hate you.  
Ps02109 You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.  
Ps02110 You will destroy their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from among the children of man.  
Ps02111 Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.  
Ps02112 For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.  
Ps02113 Be exalted, O LORD, in your strength! We will sing and praise your power.  
Ps02201 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?  
Ps02202 O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.  
Ps02203 Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.  
Ps02204 In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them.  
Ps02205 To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame.  
Ps02206 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.  
Ps02207 All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads;  
Ps02208 “He trusts in the LORD; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”  
Ps02209 Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts.  
Ps02210 On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother’s womb you have been my God.  
Ps02211 Be not far from me, for trouble is near, and there is none to help.  
Ps02212 Many bulls encompass me; strong bulls of Bashan surround me;  
Ps02213 they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.  
Ps02214 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;  
Ps02215 my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.  
Ps02216 For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet—  
Ps02217 I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me;  
Ps02218 they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.  
Ps02219 But you, O LORD, do not be far off! O you my help, come quickly to my aid!  
Ps02220 Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog!  
Ps02221 Save me from the mouth of the lion! You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen!  
Ps02222 I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:  
Ps02223 You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!  
Ps02224 For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.  
Ps02225 From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will perform before those who fear him.  
Ps02226 The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the LORD! May your hearts live forever!  
Ps02227 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.  
Ps02228 For kingship belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.  
Ps02229 All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, even the one who could not keep himself alive.  
Ps02230 Posterity shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;  
Ps02231 they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he has done it.  
Ps02301 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.  
Ps02302 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.  
Ps02303 He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.  
Ps02304 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.  
Ps02305 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.  
Ps02306 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.  
Ps02401 The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,  
Ps02402 for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.  
Ps02403 Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place?  
Ps02404 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.  
Ps02405 He will receive blessing from the LORD and righteousness from the God of his salvation.  
Ps02406 Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah  
Ps02407 Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.  
Ps02408 Who is this King of glory? The LORD, strong and mighty, the LORD, mighty in battle!  
Ps02409 Lift up your heads, O gates! And lift them up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.  
Ps02410 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory! Selah  
Ps02501 To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul.  
Ps02502 O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me.  
Ps02503 Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.  
Ps02504 Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.  
Ps02505 Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.  
Ps02506 Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.  
Ps02507 Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O LORD!  
Ps02508 Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in the way.  
Ps02509 He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.  
Ps02510 All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.  
Ps02511 For your name’s sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great.  
Ps02512 Who is the man who fears the LORD? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.  
Ps02513 His soul shall abide in well-being, and his offspring shall inherit the land.  
Ps02514 The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.  
Ps02515 My eyes are ever toward the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.  
Ps02516 Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted.  
Ps02517 The troubles of my heart are enlarged; bring me out of my distresses.  
Ps02518 Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.  
Ps02519 Consider how many are my foes, and with what violent hatred they hate me.  
Ps02520 Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me! Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.  
Ps02521 May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.  
Ps02522 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.  
Ps02601 Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.  
Ps02602 Prove me, O LORD, and try me; test my heart and my mind.  
Ps02603 For your steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in your faithfulness.  
Ps02604 I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites.  
Ps02605 I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.  
Ps02606 I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O LORD,  
Ps02607 proclaiming thanksgiving aloud, and telling all your wondrous deeds.  
Ps02608 O LORD, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells.  
Ps02609 Do not sweep my soul away with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men,  
Ps02610 in whose hands are evil devices, and whose right hands are full of bribes.  
Ps02611 But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity; redeem me, and be gracious to me.  
Ps02612 My foot stands on level ground; in the great assembly I will bless the LORD.  
Ps02701 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?  
Ps02702 When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall.  
Ps02703 Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.  
Ps02704 One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple.  
Ps02705 For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.  
Ps02706 And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me, and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melody to the LORD.  
Ps02707 Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud; be gracious to me and answer me!  
Ps02708 You have said, “Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, LORD, do I seek.”  
Ps02709 Hide not your face from me. Turn not your servant away in anger, O you who have been my help. Cast me not off; forsake me not, O God of my salvation!  
Ps02710 For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me in.  
Ps02711 Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.  
Ps02712 Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.  
Ps02713 I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living!  
Ps02714 Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!  
Ps02801 To you, O LORD, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.  
Ps02802 Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy, when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.  
Ps02803 Do not drag me off with the wicked, with the workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors while evil is in their hearts.  
Ps02804 Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their deeds; give to them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.  
Ps02805 Because they do not regard the works of the LORD or the work of his hands, he will tear them down and build them up no more.  
Ps02806 Blessed be the LORD! For he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.  
Ps02807 The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.  
Ps02808 The LORD is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed.  
Ps02809 Oh, save your people and bless your heritage! Be their shepherd and carry them forever.  
Ps02901 Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.  
Ps02902 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness.  
Ps02903 The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD, over many waters.  
Ps02904 The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.  
Ps02905 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.  
Ps02906 He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf, and Sirion like a young wild ox.  
Ps02907 The voice of the LORD flashes forth flames of fire.  
Ps02908 The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.  
Ps02909 The voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth and strips the forests bare, and in his temple all cry, “Glory!”  
Ps02910 The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD sits enthroned as king forever.  
Ps02911 May the LORD give strength to his people! May the LORD bless his people with peace!  
Ps03001 I will extol you, O LORD, for you have drawn me up and have not let my foes rejoice over me.  
Ps03002 O LORD my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me.  
Ps03003 O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.  
Ps03004 Sing praises to the LORD, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name.  
Ps03005 For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.  
Ps03006 As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”  
Ps03007 By your favor, O LORD, you made my mountain stand strong; you hid your face; I was dismayed.  
Ps03008 To you, O LORD, I cry, and to the Lord I plead for mercy:  
Ps03009 “What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?  
Ps03010 Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me! O LORD, be my helper!”  
Ps03011 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,  
Ps03012 that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever!  
Ps03101 In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me!  
Ps03102 Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily! Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!  
Ps03103 For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name’s sake you lead me and guide me;  
Ps03104 you take me out of the net they have hidden for me, for you are my refuge.  
Ps03105 Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.  
Ps03106 I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the LORD.  
Ps03107 I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul,  
Ps03108 and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.  
Ps03109 Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.  
Ps03110 For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.  
Ps03111 Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.  
Ps03112 I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel.  
Ps03113 For I hear the whispering of many— terror on every side!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.  
Ps03114 But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.”  
Ps03115 My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!  
Ps03116 Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love!  
Ps03117 O LORD, let me not be put to shame, for I call upon you; let the wicked be put to shame; let them go silently to Sheol.  
Ps03118 Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.  
Ps03119 Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!  
Ps03120 In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.  
Ps03121 Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was in a besieged city.  
Ps03122 I had said in my alarm, “I am cut off from your sight.” But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.  
Ps03123 Love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.  
Ps03124 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!  
Ps03201 Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.  
Ps03202 Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.  
Ps03203 For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.  
Ps03204 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah  
Ps03205 I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah  
Ps03206 Therefore let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found; surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.  
Ps03207 You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah  
Ps03208 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.  
Ps03209 Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.  
Ps03210 Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the LORD.  
Ps03211 Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!  
Ps03301 Shout for joy in the LORD, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright.  
Ps03302 Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre; make melody to him with the harp of ten strings!  
Ps03303 Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts.  
Ps03304 For the word of the LORD is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness.  
Ps03305 He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.  
Ps03306 By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.  
Ps03307 He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses.  
Ps03308 Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!  
Ps03309 For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.  
Ps03310 The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.  
Ps03311 The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.  
Ps03312 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!  
Ps03313 The LORD looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man;  
Ps03314 from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,  
Ps03315 he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.  
Ps03316 The king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.  
Ps03317 The war horse is a false hope for salvation, and by its great might it cannot rescue.  
Ps03318 Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,  
Ps03319 that he may deliver their soul from death and keep them alive in famine.  
Ps03320 Our soul waits for the LORD; he is our help and our shield.  
Ps03321 For our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name.  
Ps03322 Let your steadfast love, O LORD, be upon us, even as we hope in you.  
Ps03401 I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.  
Ps03402 My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the humble hear and be glad.  
Ps03403 Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!  
Ps03404 I sought the LORD, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.  
Ps03405 Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.  
Ps03406 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.  
Ps03407 The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.  
Ps03408 Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!  
Ps03409 Oh, fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack!  
Ps03410 The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.  
Ps03411 Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.  
Ps03412 What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good?  
Ps03413 Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.  
Ps03414 Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.  
Ps03415 The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous and his ears toward their cry.  
Ps03416 The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.  
Ps03417 When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.  
Ps03418 The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.  
Ps03419 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.  
Ps03420 He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.  
Ps03421 Affliction will slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.  
Ps03422 The LORD redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.  
Ps03501 Contend, O LORD, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me!  
Ps03502 Take hold of shield and buckler and rise for my help!  
Ps03503 Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, “I am your salvation!”  
Ps03504 Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and disappointed who devise evil against me!  
Ps03505 Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the LORD driving them away!  
Ps03506 Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the LORD pursuing them!  
Ps03507 For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.  
Ps03508 Let destruction come upon him when he does not know it! And let the net that he hid ensnare him; let him fall into it—to his destruction!  
Ps03509 Then my soul will rejoice in the LORD, exulting in his salvation.  
Ps03510 All my bones shall say, “O LORD, who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs him?”  
Ps03511 Malicious witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I do not know.  
Ps03512 They repay me evil for good; my soul is bereft.  
Ps03513 But I, when they were sick— I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest.  
Ps03514 I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning.  
Ps03515 But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing;  
Ps03516 like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.  
Ps03517 How long, O Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from the lions!  
Ps03518 I will thank you in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise you.  
Ps03519 Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.  
Ps03520 For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they devise words of deceit.  
Ps03521 They open wide their mouths against me; they say, “Aha, Aha! Our eyes have seen it!”  
Ps03522 You have seen, O LORD; be not silent! O Lord, be not far from me!  
Ps03523 Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication, for my cause, my God and my Lord!  
Ps03524 Vindicate me, O LORD, my God, according to your righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me!  
Ps03525 Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, our heart’s desire!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”  
Ps03526 Let them be put to shame and disappointed altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!  
Ps03527 Let those who delight in my righteousness shout for joy and be glad and say evermore, “Great is the LORD, who delights in the welfare of his servant!”  
Ps03528 Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.  
Ps03601 Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes.  
Ps03602 For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.  
Ps03603 The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.  
Ps03604 He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil.  
Ps03605 Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.  
Ps03606 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.  
Ps03607 How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.  
Ps03608 They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights.  
Ps03609 For with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light.  
Ps03610 Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who know you, and your righteousness to the upright of heart!  
Ps03611 Let not the foot of arrogance come upon me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.  
Ps03612 There the evildoers lie fallen; they are thrust down, unable to rise.  
Ps03701 Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers!  
Ps03702 For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.  
Ps03703 Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.  
Ps03704 Delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.  
Ps03705 Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act.  
Ps03706 He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.  
Ps03707 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!  
Ps03708 Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.  
Ps03709 For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.  
Ps03710 In just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.  
Ps03711 But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace.  
Ps03712 The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him,  
Ps03713 but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.  
Ps03714 The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose way is upright;  
Ps03715 their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.  
Ps03716 Better is the little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked.  
Ps03717 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.  
Ps03718 The LORD knows the days of the blameless, and their heritage will remain forever;  
Ps03719 they are not put to shame in evil times; in the days of famine they have abundance.  
Ps03720 But the wicked will perish; the enemies of the LORD are like the glory of the pastures; they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.  
Ps03721 The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;  
Ps03722 for those blessed by the LORD shall inherit the land, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.  
Ps03723 The steps of a man are established by the LORD, when he delights in his way;  
Ps03724 though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong, for the LORD upholds his hand.  
Ps03725 I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.  
Ps03726 He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.  
Ps03727 Turn away from evil and do good; so shall you dwell forever.  
Ps03728 For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.  
Ps03729 The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell upon it forever.  
Ps03730 The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.  
Ps03731 The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not slip.  
Ps03732 The wicked watches for the righteous and seeks to put him to death.  
Ps03733 The LORD will not abandon him to his power or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial.  
Ps03734 Wait for the LORD and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land; you will look on when the wicked are cut off.  
Ps03735 I have seen a wicked, ruthless man, spreading himself like a green laurel tree.  
Ps03736 But he passed away, and behold, he was no more; though I sought him, he could not be found.  
Ps03737 Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.  
Ps03738 But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the future of the wicked shall be cut off.  
Ps03739 The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; he is their stronghold in the time of trouble.  
Ps03740 The LORD helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him.  
Ps03801 O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath!  
Ps03802 For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.  
Ps03803 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.  
Ps03804 For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.  
Ps03805 My wounds stink and fester because of my foolishness,  
Ps03806 I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.  
Ps03807 For my sides are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.  
Ps03808 I am feeble and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.  
Ps03809 O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you.  
Ps03810 My heart throbs; my strength fails me, and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.  
Ps03811 My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague, and my nearest kin stand far off.  
Ps03812 Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long.  
Ps03813 But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear, like a mute man who does not open his mouth.  
Ps03814 I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.  
Ps03815 But for you, O LORD, do I wait; it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.  
Ps03816 For I said, “Only let them not rejoice over me, who boast against me when my foot slips!”  
Ps03817 For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever before me.  
Ps03818 I confess my iniquity; I am sorry for my sin.  
Ps03819 But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.  
Ps03820 Those who render me evil for good accuse me because I follow after good.  
Ps03821 Do not forsake me, O LORD! O my God, be not far from me!  
Ps03822 Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!  
Ps03901 I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.”  
Ps03902 I was mute and silent; I held my peace to no avail, and my distress grew worse.  
Ps03903 My heart became hot within me. As I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:  
Ps03904 “O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!  
Ps03905 Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah  
Ps03906 Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!  
Ps03907 “And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.  
Ps03908 Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the scorn of the fool!  
Ps03909 I am mute; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it.  
Ps03910 Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand.  
Ps03911 When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah  
Ps03912 “Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.  
Ps03913 Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!”  
Ps04001 I waited patiently for the LORD; he inclined to me and heard my cry.  
Ps04002 He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.  
Ps04003 He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD.  
Ps04004 Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie!  
Ps04005 You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.  
Ps04006 In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.  
Ps04007 Then I said, “Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me:  
Ps04008 I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”  
Ps04009 I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O LORD.  
Ps04010 I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart; I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation.  
Ps04011 As for you, O LORD, you will not restrain your mercy from me; your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me!  
Ps04012 For evils have encompassed me beyond number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.  
Ps04013 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me!  
Ps04014 Let those be put to shame and disappointed altogether who seek to snatch away my life; let those be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt!  
Ps04015 Let those be appalled because of their shame who say to me, “Aha, Aha!”  
Ps04016 But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, “Great is the LORD!”  
Ps04017 As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God!  
Ps04101 Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the LORD delivers him;  
Ps04102 the LORD protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; you do not give him up to the will of his enemies.  
Ps04103 The LORD sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health.  
Ps04104 As for me, I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against you!”  
Ps04105 My enemies say of me in malice, “When will he die, and his name perish?”  
Ps04106 And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words, while his heart gathers iniquity; when he goes out, he tells it abroad.  
Ps04107 All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me.  
Ps04108 They say, “A deadly thing is poured out on him; he will not rise again from where he lies.”  
Ps04109 Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.  
Ps04110 But you, O LORD, be gracious to me, and raise me up, that I may repay them!  
Ps04111 By this I know that you delight in me: my enemy will not shout in triumph over me.  
Ps04112 But you have upheld me because of my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.  
Ps04113 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.  
Ps04201 As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.  
Ps04202 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?  
Ps04203 My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”  
Ps04204 These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.  
Ps04205 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation  
Ps04206 and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.  
Ps04207 Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.  
Ps04208 By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.  
Ps04209 I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”  
Ps04210 As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”  
Ps04211 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.  
Ps04301 Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!  
Ps04302 For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?  
Ps04303 Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling!  
Ps04304 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.  
Ps04305 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.  
Ps04401 O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old:  
Ps04402 you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free;  
Ps04403 for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm, and the light of your face, for you delighted in them.  
Ps04404 You are my King, O God; ordain salvation for Jacob!  
Ps04405 Through you we push down our foes; through your name we tread down those who rise up against us.  
Ps04406 For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me.  
Ps04407 But you have saved us from our foes and have put to shame those who hate us.  
Ps04408 In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah  
Ps04409 But you have rejected us and disgraced us and have not gone out with our armies.  
Ps04410 You have made us turn back from the foe, and those who hate us have gotten spoil.  
Ps04411 You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations.  
Ps04412 You have sold your people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.  
Ps04413 You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those around us.  
Ps04414 You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.  
Ps04415 All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face  
Ps04416 at the sound of the taunter and reviler, at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.  
Ps04417 All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.  
Ps04418 Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from your way;  
Ps04419 yet you have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.  
Ps04420 If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,  
Ps04421 would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.  
Ps04422 Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.  
Ps04423 Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever!  
Ps04424 Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?  
Ps04425 For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly clings to the ground.  
Ps04426 Rise up; come to our help! Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love!  
Ps04501 My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.  
Ps04502 You are the most handsome of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.  
Ps04503 Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your splendor and majesty!  
Ps04504 In your majesty ride out victoriously for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness; let your right hand teach you awesome deeds!  
Ps04505 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; the peoples fall under you.  
Ps04506 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness;  
Ps04507 you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;  
Ps04508 your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad;  
Ps04509 daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.  
Ps04510 Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear: forget your people and your father’s house,  
Ps04511 and the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him.  
Ps04512 The people of Tyre will seek your favor with gifts, the richest of the people.  
Ps04513 All glorious is the princess in her chamber, with robes interwoven with gold.  
Ps04514 In many-colored robes she is led to the king, with her virgin companions following behind her.  
Ps04515 With joy and gladness they are led along as they enter the palace of the king.  
Ps04516 In place of your fathers shall be your sons; you will make them princes in all the earth.  
Ps04517 I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore nations will praise you forever and ever.  
Ps04601 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.  
Ps04602 Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,  
Ps04603 though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah  
Ps04604 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.  
Ps04605 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.  
Ps04606 The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.  
Ps04607 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah  
Ps04608 Come, behold the works of the LORD, how he has brought desolations on the earth.  
Ps04609 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the chariots with fire.  
Ps04610 “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”  
Ps04611 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah  
Ps04701 Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!  
Ps04702 For the LORD, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth.  
Ps04703 He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet.  
Ps04704 He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah  
Ps04705 God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.  
Ps04706 Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!  
Ps04707 For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!  
Ps04708 God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.  
Ps04709 The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted!  
Ps04801 Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain,  
Ps04802 beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.  
Ps04803 Within her citadels God has made himself known as a fortress.  
Ps04804 For behold, the kings assembled; they came on together.  
Ps04805 As soon as they saw it, they were astounded; they were in panic; they took to flight.  
Ps04806 Trembling took hold of them there, anguish as of a woman in labor.  
Ps04807 By the east wind you shattered the ships of Tarshish.  
Ps04808 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God, which God will establish forever. Selah  
Ps04809 We have thought on your steadfast love, O God, in the midst of your temple.  
Ps04810 As your name, O God, so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is filled with righteousness.  
Ps04811 Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments!  
Ps04812 Walk about Zion, go around her, number her towers,  
Ps04813 consider well her ramparts, go through her citadels, that you may tell the next generation  
Ps04814 that this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever.  
Ps04901 Hear this, all peoples! Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,  
Ps04902 both low and high, rich and poor together!  
Ps04903 My mouth shall speak wisdom; the meditation of my heart shall be understanding.  
Ps04904 I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.  
Ps04905 Why should I fear in times of trouble, when the iniquity of those who cheat me surrounds me,  
Ps04906 those who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?  
Ps04907 Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life,  
Ps04908 for the ransom of their life is costly and can never suffice,  
Ps04909 that he should live on forever and never see the pit.  
Ps04910 For he sees that even the wise die; the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others.  
Ps04911 Their graves are their homes forever, their dwelling places to all generations, though they called lands by their own names.  
Ps04912 Man in his pomp will not remain; he is like the beasts that perish.  
Ps04913 This is the path of those who have foolish confidence; yet after them people approve of their boasts. Selah  
Ps04914 Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall rule over them in the morning. Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell.  
Ps04915 But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah  
Ps04916 Be not afraid when a man becomes rich, when the glory of his house increases.  
Ps04917 For when he dies he will carry nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.  
Ps04918 For though, while he lives, he counts himself blessed—and though you get praise when you do well for yourself—  
Ps04919 his soul will go to the generation of his fathers, who will never again see light.  
Ps04920 Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beasts that perish.  
Ps05001 The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.  
Ps05002 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.  
Ps05003 Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest.  
Ps05004 He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:  
Ps05005 “Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”  
Ps05006 The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah  
Ps05007 “Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.  
Ps05008 Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me.  
Ps05009 I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds.  
Ps05010 For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.  
Ps05011 I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine.  
Ps05012 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine.  
Ps05013 Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?  
Ps05014 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High,  
Ps05015 and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”  
Ps05016 But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?  
Ps05017 For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.  
Ps05018 If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers.  
Ps05019 “You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.  
Ps05020 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.  
Ps05021 These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.  
Ps05022 “Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!  
Ps05023 The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!”  
Ps05101 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.  
Ps05102 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!  
Ps05103 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.  
Ps05104 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.  
Ps05105 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.  
Ps05106 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.  
Ps05107 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.  
Ps05108 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.  
Ps05109 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.  
Ps05110 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.  
Ps05111 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.  
Ps05112 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.  
Ps05113 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.  
Ps05114 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.  
Ps05115 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.  
Ps05116 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.  
Ps05117 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.  
Ps05118 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; build up the walls of Jerusalem;  
Ps05119 then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar.  
Ps05201 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day.  
Ps05202 Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.  
Ps05203 You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah  
Ps05204 You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.  
Ps05205 But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah  
Ps05206 The righteous shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,  
Ps05207 “See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and sought refuge in his own destruction!”  
Ps05208 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.  
Ps05209 I will thank you forever, because you have done it. I will wait for your name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly.  
Ps05301 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.  
Ps05302 God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.  
Ps05303 They have all fallen away; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.  
Ps05304 Have those who work evil no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?  
Ps05305 There they are, in great terror, where there is no terror! For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you; you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.  
Ps05306 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.  
Ps05401 O God, save me by your name, and vindicate me by your might.  
Ps05402 O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my mouth.  
Ps05403 For strangers have risen against me; ruthless men seek my life; they do not set God before themselves. Selah  
Ps05404 Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life.  
Ps05405 He will return the evil to my enemies; in your faithfulness put an end to them.  
Ps05406 With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to you; I will give thanks to your name, O LORD, for it is good.  
Ps05407 For he has delivered me from every trouble, and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies.  
Ps05501 Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy!  
Ps05502 Attend to me, and answer me; I am restless in my complaint and I moan,  
Ps05503 because of the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they drop trouble upon me, and in anger they bear a grudge against me.  
Ps05504 My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me.  
Ps05505 Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.  
Ps05506 And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;  
Ps05507 yes, I would wander far away; I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah  
Ps05508 I would hurry to find a shelter from the raging wind and tempest.”  
Ps05509 Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.  
Ps05510 Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;  
Ps05511 ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its marketplace.  
Ps05512 For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him.  
Ps05513 But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.  
Ps05514 We used to take sweet counsel together; within God’s house we walked in the throng.  
Ps05515 Let death steal over them; let them go down to Sheol alive; for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.  
Ps05516 But I call to God, and the LORD will save me.  
Ps05517 Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he hears my voice.  
Ps05518 He redeems my soul in safety from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.  
Ps05519 God will give ear and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old, Selah because they do not change and do not fear God.  
Ps05520 My companion stretched out his hand against his friends; he violated his covenant.  
Ps05521 His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.  
Ps05522 Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.  
Ps05523 But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.  
Ps05601 Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me; all day long an attacker oppresses me;  
Ps05602 my enemies trample on me all day long, for many attack me proudly.  
Ps05603 When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.  
Ps05604 In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?  
Ps05605 All day long they injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.  
Ps05606 They stir up strife, they lurk; they watch my steps, as they have waited for my life.  
Ps05607 For their crime will they escape? In wrath cast down the peoples, O God!  
Ps05608 You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?  
Ps05609 Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me.  
Ps05610 In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise,  
Ps05611 in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?  
Ps05612 I must perform my vows to you, O God; I will render thank offerings to you.  
Ps05613 For you have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.  
Ps05701 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.  
Ps05702 I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.  
Ps05703 He will send from heaven and save me; he will put to shame him who tramples on me. Selah God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness!  
Ps05704 My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts— the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.  
Ps05705 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth!  
Ps05706 They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah  
Ps05707 My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast! I will sing and make melody!  
Ps05708 Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!  
Ps05709 I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations.  
Ps05710 For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.  
Ps05711 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth!  
Ps05801 Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly?  
Ps05802 No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.  
Ps05803 The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.  
Ps05804 They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,  
Ps05805 so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.  
Ps05806 O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD!  
Ps05807 Let them vanish like water that runs away; when he aims his arrows, let them be blunted.  
Ps05808 Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.  
Ps05809 Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!  
Ps05810 The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.  
Ps05811 Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth.”  
Ps05901 Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise up against me;  
Ps05902 deliver me from those who work evil, and save me from bloodthirsty men.  
Ps05903 For behold, they lie in wait for my life; fierce men stir up strife against me. For no transgression or sin of mine, O LORD,  
Ps05904 for no fault of mine, they run and make ready. Awake, come to meet me, and see!  
Ps05905 You, LORD God of hosts, are God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah  
Ps05906 Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city.  
Ps05907 There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”  
Ps05908 But you, O LORD, laugh at them; you hold all the nations in derision.  
Ps05909 O my Strength, I will watch for you, for you, O God, are my fortress.  
Ps05910 My God in his steadfast love will meet me; God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.  
Ps05911 Kill them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!  
Ps05912 For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies that they utter,  
Ps05913 consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, that they may know that God rules over Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah  
Ps05914 Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city.  
Ps05915 They wander about for food and growl if they do not get their fill.  
Ps05916 But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.  
Ps05917 O my Strength, I will sing praises to you, for you, O God, are my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love.  
Ps06001 O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; oh, restore us.  
Ps06002 You have made the land to quake; you have torn it open; repair its breaches, for it totters.  
Ps06003 You have made your people see hard things; you have given us wine to drink that made us stagger.  
Ps06004 You have set up a banner for those who fear you, that they may flee to it from the bow. Selah  
Ps06005 That your beloved ones may be delivered, give salvation by your right hand and answer us!  
Ps06006 God has spoken in his holiness: “With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth.  
Ps06007 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet; Judah is my scepter.  
Ps06008 Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”  
Ps06009 Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?  
Ps06010 Have you not rejected us, O God? You do not go forth, O God, with our armies.  
Ps06011 Oh, grant us help against the foe, for vain is the salvation of man!  
Ps06012 With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes.  
Ps06101 Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer;  
Ps06102 from the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I,  
Ps06103 for you have been my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy.  
Ps06104 Let me dwell in your tent forever! Let me take refuge under the shelter of your wings! Selah  
Ps06105 For you, O God, have heard my vows; you have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.  
Ps06106 Prolong the life of the king; may his years endure to all generations!  
Ps06107 May he be enthroned forever before God; appoint steadfast love and faithfulness to watch over him!  
Ps06108 So will I ever sing praises to your name, as I perform my vows day after day.  
Ps06201 For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation.  
Ps06202 He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.  
Ps06203 How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?  
Ps06204 They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah  
Ps06205 For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.  
Ps06206 He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.  
Ps06207 On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God.  
Ps06208 Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah  
Ps06209 Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.  
Ps06210 Put no trust in extortion; set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.  
Ps06211 Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God,  
Ps06212 and that to you, O Lord, belongs steadfast love. For you will render to a man according to his work.  
Ps06301 O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.  
Ps06302 So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.  
Ps06303 Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.  
Ps06304 So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.  
Ps06305 My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,  
Ps06306 when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night;  
Ps06307 for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.  
Ps06308 My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.  
Ps06309 But those who seek to destroy my life shall go down into the depths of the earth;  
Ps06310 they shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be a portion for jackals.  
Ps06311 But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swear by him shall exult, for the mouths of liars will be stopped.  
Ps06401 Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy.  
Ps06402 Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the throng of evildoers,  
Ps06403 who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,  
Ps06404 shooting from ambush at the blameless, shooting at him suddenly and without fear.  
Ps06405 They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, “Who can see them?”  
Ps06406 They search out injustice, saying, “We have accomplished a diligent search.” For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep.  
Ps06407 But God shoots his arrow at them; they are wounded suddenly.  
Ps06408 They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them; all who see them will wag their heads.  
Ps06409 Then all mankind fears; they tell what God has brought about and ponder what he has done.  
Ps06410 Let the righteous one rejoice in the LORD and take refuge in him! Let all the upright in heart exult!  
Ps06501 Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed.  
Ps06502 O you who hear prayer, to you shall all flesh come.  
Ps06503 When iniquities prevail against me, you atone for our transgressions.  
Ps06504 Blessed is the one you choose and bring near, to dwell in your courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple!  
Ps06505 By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas;  
Ps06506 the one who by his strength established the mountains, being girded with might;  
Ps06507 who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples,  
Ps06508 so that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs. You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.  
Ps06509 You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.  
Ps06510 You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth.  
Ps06511 You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with abundance.  
Ps06512 The pastures of the wilderness overflow, the hills gird themselves with joy,  
Ps06513 the meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy.  
Ps06601 Shout for joy to God, all the earth;  
Ps06602 sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise!  
Ps06603 Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.  
Ps06604 All the earth worships you and sings praises to you; they sing praises to your name.” Selah  
Ps06605 Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man.  
Ps06606 He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the river on foot. There did we rejoice in him,  
Ps06607 who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations— let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah  
Ps06608 Bless our God, O peoples; let the sound of his praise be heard,  
Ps06609 who has kept our soul among the living and has not let our feet slip.  
Ps06610 For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.  
Ps06611 You brought us into the net; you laid a crushing burden on our backs;  
Ps06612 you let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.  
Ps06613 I will come into your house with burnt offerings; I will perform my vows to you,  
Ps06614 that which my lips uttered and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.  
Ps06615 I will offer to you burnt offerings of fattened animals, with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams; I will make an offering of bulls and goats. Selah  
Ps06616 Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for my soul.  
Ps06617 I cried to him with my mouth, and high praise was on my tongue.  
Ps06618 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.  
Ps06619 But truly God has listened; he has attended to the voice of my prayer.  
Ps06620 Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me!  
Ps06701 May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah  
Ps06702 that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.  
Ps06703 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!  
Ps06704 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah  
Ps06705 Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!  
Ps06706 The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, shall bless us.  
Ps06707 God shall bless us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!  
Ps06801 God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered; and those who hate him shall flee before him!  
Ps06802 As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away; as wax melts before fire, so the wicked shall perish before God!  
Ps06803 But the righteous shall be glad; they shall exult before God; they shall be jubilant with joy!  
Ps06804 Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the LORD; exult before him!  
Ps06805 Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.  
Ps06806 God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.  
Ps06807 O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness, Selah  
Ps06808 the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.  
Ps06809 Rain in abundance, O God, you shed abroad; you restored your inheritance as it languished;  
Ps06810 your flock found a dwelling in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided for the needy.  
Ps06811 The Lord gives the word; the women who announce the news are a great host:  
Ps06812 “The kings of the armies—they flee, they flee!” The women at home divide the spoil—  
Ps06813 though you men lie among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold.  
Ps06814 When the Almighty scatters kings there, let snow fall on Zalmon.  
Ps06815 O mountain of God, mountain of Bashan; O many-peaked mountain, mountain of Bashan!  
Ps06816 Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain, at the mount that God desired for his abode, yes, where the LORD will dwell forever?  
Ps06817 The chariots of God are twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them; Sinai is now in the sanctuary.  
Ps06818 You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.  
Ps06819 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. Selah  
Ps06820 Our God is a God of salvation, and to GOD, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.  
Ps06821 But God will strike the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways.  
Ps06822 The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,  
Ps06823 that you may strike your feet in their blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe.”  
Ps06824 Your procession is seen, O God, the procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary—  
Ps06825 the singers in front, the musicians last, between them virgins playing tambourines:  
Ps06826 “Bless God in the great congregation, the LORD, O you who are of Israel’s fountain!”  
Ps06827 There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead, the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.  
Ps06828 Summon your power, O God, the power, O God, by which you have worked for us.  
Ps06829 Because of your temple at Jerusalem kings shall bear gifts to you.  
Ps06830 Rebuke the beasts that dwell among the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples. Trample underfoot those who lust after tribute; scatter the peoples who delight in war.  
Ps06831 Nobles shall come from Egypt; Cush shall hasten to stretch out her hands to God.  
Ps06832 O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God; sing praises to the Lord, Selah  
Ps06833 to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; behold, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice.  
Ps06834 Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and whose power is in the skies.  
Ps06835 Awesome is God from his sanctuary; the God of Israel—he is the one who gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God!  
Ps06901 Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.  
Ps06902 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.  
Ps06903 I am weary with my crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.  
Ps06904 More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?  
Ps06905 O God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.  
Ps06906 Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.  
Ps06907 For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that dishonor has covered my face.  
Ps06908 I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s sons.  
Ps06909 For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.  
Ps06910 When I wept and humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.  
Ps06911 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.  
Ps06912 I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.  
Ps06913 But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.  
Ps06914 Deliver me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.  
Ps06915 Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.  
Ps06916 Answer me, O LORD, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.  
Ps06917 Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in distress; make haste to answer me.  
Ps06918 Draw near to my soul, redeem me; ransom me because of my enemies!  
Ps06919 You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you.  
Ps06920 Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.  
Ps06921 They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.  
Ps06922 Let their own table before them become a snare; and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.  
Ps06923 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually.  
Ps06924 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your burning anger overtake them.  
Ps06925 May their camp be a desolation; let no one dwell in their tents.  
Ps06926 For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.  
Ps06927 Add to them punishment upon punishment; may they have no acquittal from you.  
Ps06928 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.  
Ps06929 But I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, O God, set me on high!  
Ps06930 I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.  
Ps06931 This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.  
Ps06932 When the humble see it they will be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.  
Ps06933 For the LORD hears the needy and does not despise his own people who are prisoners.  
Ps06934 Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them.  
Ps06935 For God will save Zion and build up the cities of Judah, and people shall dwell there and possess it;  
Ps06936 the offspring of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it.  
Ps07001 Make haste, O God, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me!  
Ps07002 Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life! Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt!  
Ps07003 Let them turn back because of their shame who say, “Aha, Aha!”  
Ps07004 May all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you! May those who love your salvation say evermore, “God is great!”  
Ps07005 But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay!  
Ps07101 In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame!  
Ps07102 In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me!  
Ps07103 Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.  
Ps07104 Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.  
Ps07105 For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O LORD, from my youth.  
Ps07106 Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you.  
Ps07107 I have been as a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge.  
Ps07108 My mouth is filled with your praise, and with your glory all the day.  
Ps07109 Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.  
Ps07110 For my enemies speak concerning me; those who watch for my life consult together  
Ps07111 and say, “God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none to deliver him.”  
Ps07112 O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!  
Ps07113 May my accusers be put to shame and consumed; with scorn and disgrace may they be covered who seek my hurt.  
Ps07114 But I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more.  
Ps07115 My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge.  
Ps07116 With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come; I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.  
Ps07117 O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.  
Ps07118 So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.  
Ps07119 Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?  
Ps07120 You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again.  
Ps07121 You will increase my greatness and comfort me again.  
Ps07122 I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.  
Ps07123 My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed.  
Ps07124 And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointed who sought to do me hurt.  
Ps07201 Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son!  
Ps07202 May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice!  
Ps07203 Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness!  
Ps07204 May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!  
Ps07205 May they fear you while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations!  
Ps07206 May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth!  
Ps07207 In his days may the righteous flourish, and peace abound, till the moon be no more!  
Ps07208 May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth!  
Ps07209 May desert tribes bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust!  
Ps07210 May the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands render him tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts!  
Ps07211 May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!  
Ps07212 For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.  
Ps07213 He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy.  
Ps07214 From oppression and violence he redeems their life, and precious is their blood in his sight.  
Ps07215 Long may he live; may gold of Sheba be given to him! May prayer be made for him continually, and blessings invoked for him all the day!  
Ps07216 May there be abundance of grain in the land; on the tops of the mountains may it wave; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may people blossom in the cities like the grass of the field!  
Ps07217 May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!  
Ps07218 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.  
Ps07219 Blessed be his glorious name forever; may the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and Amen!  
Ps07220 The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.  
Ps07301 Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.  
Ps07302 But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped.  
Ps07303 For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.  
Ps07304 For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek.  
Ps07305 They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.  
Ps07306 Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.  
Ps07307 Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.  
Ps07308 They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.  
Ps07309 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.  
Ps07310 Therefore his people turn back to them, and find no fault in them.  
Ps07311 And they say, “How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”  
Ps07312 Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.  
Ps07313 All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.  
Ps07314 For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning.  
Ps07315 If I had said, “I will speak thus,” I would have betrayed the generation of your children.  
Ps07316 But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,  
Ps07317 until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end.  
Ps07318 Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.  
Ps07319 How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!  
Ps07320 Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.  
Ps07321 When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,  
Ps07322 I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.  
Ps07323 Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand.  
Ps07324 You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory.  
Ps07325 Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.  
Ps07326 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.  
Ps07327 For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.  
Ps07328 But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.  
Ps07401 O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?  
Ps07402 Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.  
Ps07403 Direct your steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!  
Ps07404 Your foes have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they set up their own signs for signs.  
Ps07405 They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees.  
Ps07406 And all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers.  
Ps07407 They set your sanctuary on fire; they profaned the dwelling place of your name, bringing it down to the ground.  
Ps07408 They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.  
Ps07409 We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.  
Ps07410 How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever?  
Ps07411 Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the fold of your garment and destroy them!  
Ps07412 Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.  
Ps07413 You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the sea monsters on the waters.  
Ps07414 You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.  
Ps07415 You split open springs and brooks; you dried up ever-flowing streams.  
Ps07416 Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.  
Ps07417 You have fixed all the boundaries of the earth; you have made summer and winter.  
Ps07418 Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name.  
Ps07419 Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of your poor forever.  
Ps07420 Have regard for the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.  
Ps07421 Let not the downtrodden turn back in shame; let the poor and needy praise your name.  
Ps07422 Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!  
Ps07423 Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually!  
Ps07501 We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, for your name is near. We recount your wondrous deeds.  
Ps07502 “At the set time that I appoint I will judge with equity.  
Ps07503 When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. Selah  
Ps07504 I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn;  
Ps07505 do not lift up your horn on high, or speak with haughty neck.’”  
Ps07506 For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up,  
Ps07507 but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.  
Ps07508 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup with foaming wine, well mixed, and he pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.  
Ps07509 But I will declare it forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.  
Ps07510 All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.  
Ps07601 In Judah God is known; his name is great in Israel.  
Ps07602 His abode has been established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.  
Ps07603 There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah  
Ps07604 Glorious are you, more majestic than the mountains full of prey.  
Ps07605 The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; all the men of war were unable to use their hands.  
Ps07606 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both rider and horse lay stunned.  
Ps07607 But you, you are to be feared! Who can stand before you when once your anger is roused?  
Ps07608 From the heavens you uttered judgment; the earth feared and was still,  
Ps07609 when God arose to establish judgment, to save all the humble of the earth. Selah  
Ps07610 Surely the wrath of man shall praise you; the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.  
Ps07611 Make your vows to the LORD your God and perform them; let all around him bring gifts to him who is to be feared,  
Ps07612 who cuts off the spirit of princes, who is to be feared by the kings of the earth.  
Ps07701 I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, and he will hear me.  
Ps07702 In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted.  
Ps07703 When I remember God, I moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah  
Ps07704 You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.  
Ps07705 I consider the days of old, the years long ago.  
Ps07706 I said, “Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart.” Then my spirit made a diligent search:  
Ps07707 “Will the Lord spurn forever, and never again be favorable?  
Ps07708 Has his steadfast love forever ceased? Are his promises at an end for all time?  
Ps07709 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah  
Ps07710 Then I said, “I will appeal to this, to the years of the right hand of the Most High.”  
Ps07711 I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your wonders of old.  
Ps07712 I will ponder all your work, and meditate on your mighty deeds.  
Ps07713 Your way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God?  
Ps07714 You are the God who works wonders; you have made known your might among the peoples.  
Ps07715 You with your arm redeemed your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah  
Ps07716 When the waters saw you, O God, when the waters saw you, they were afraid; indeed, the deep trembled.  
Ps07717 The clouds poured out water; the skies gave forth thunder; your arrows flashed on every side.  
Ps07718 The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind; your lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook.  
Ps07719 Your way was through the sea, your path through the great waters; yet your footprints were unseen.  
Ps07720 You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.  
Ps07801 Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!  
Ps07802 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,  
Ps07803 things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.  
Ps07804 We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.  
Ps07805 He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children,  
Ps07806 that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,  
Ps07807 so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;  
Ps07808 and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.  
Ps07809 The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.  
Ps07810 They did not keep God’s covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.  
Ps07811 They forgot his works and the wonders that he had shown them.  
Ps07812 In the sight of their fathers he performed wonders in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.  
Ps07813 He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.  
Ps07814 In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a fiery light.  
Ps07815 He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.  
Ps07816 He made streams come out of the rock and caused waters to flow down like rivers.  
Ps07817 Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.  
Ps07818 They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.  
Ps07819 They spoke against God, saying, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?  
Ps07820 He struck the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread or provide meat for his people?”  
Ps07821 Therefore, when the LORD heard, he was full of wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob; his anger rose against Israel,  
Ps07822 because they did not believe in God and did not trust his saving power.  
Ps07823 Yet he commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven,  
Ps07824 and he rained down on them manna to eat and gave them the grain of heaven.  
Ps07825 Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.  
Ps07826 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he led out the south wind;  
Ps07827 he rained meat on them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;  
Ps07828 he let them fall in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.  
Ps07829 And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved.  
Ps07830 But before they had satisfied their craving, while the food was still in their mouths,  
Ps07831 the anger of God rose against them, and he killed the strongest of them and laid low the young men of Israel.  
Ps07832 In spite of all this, they still sinned; despite his wonders, they did not believe.  
Ps07833 So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.  
Ps07834 When he killed them, they sought him; they repented and sought God earnestly.  
Ps07835 They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.  
Ps07836 But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.  
Ps07837 Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not faithful to his covenant.  
Ps07838 Yet he, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath.  
Ps07839 He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.  
Ps07840 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!  
Ps07841 They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel.  
Ps07842 They did not remember his power or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,  
Ps07843 when he performed his signs in Egypt and his marvels in the fields of Zoan.  
Ps07844 He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.  
Ps07845 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.  
Ps07846 He gave their crops to the destroying locust and the fruit of their labor to the locust.  
Ps07847 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamores with frost.  
Ps07848 He gave over their cattle to the hail and their flocks to thunderbolts.  
Ps07849 He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.  
Ps07850 He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.  
Ps07851 He struck down every firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.  
Ps07852 Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.  
Ps07853 He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.  
Ps07854 And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.  
Ps07855 He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.  
Ps07856 Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God and did not keep his testimonies,  
Ps07857 but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.  
Ps07858 For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.  
Ps07859 When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.  
Ps07860 He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among mankind,  
Ps07861 and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.  
Ps07862 He gave his people over to the sword and vented his wrath on his heritage.  
Ps07863 Fire devoured their young men, and their young women had no marriage song.  
Ps07864 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.  
Ps07865 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.  
Ps07866 And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.  
Ps07867 He rejected the tent of Joseph; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,  
Ps07868 but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.  
Ps07869 He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.  
Ps07870 He chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds;  
Ps07871 from following the nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Jacob his people, Israel his inheritance.  
Ps07872 With upright heart he shepherded them and guided them with his skillful hand.  
Ps07901 O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.  
Ps07902 They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the heavens for food, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.  
Ps07903 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.  
Ps07904 We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.  
Ps07905 How long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?  
Ps07906 Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name!  
Ps07907 For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his habitation.  
Ps07908 Do not remember against us our former iniquities; let your compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low.  
Ps07909 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and atone for our sins, for your name’s sake!  
Ps07910 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!  
Ps07911 Let the groans of the prisoners come before you; according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die!  
Ps07912 Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!  
Ps07913 But we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise.  
Ps08001 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.  
Ps08002 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might and come to save us!  
Ps08003 Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved!  
Ps08004 O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?  
Ps08005 You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.  
Ps08006 You make us an object of contention for our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.  
Ps08007 Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved!  
Ps08008 You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.  
Ps08009 You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.  
Ps08010 The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.  
Ps08011 It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the River.  
Ps08012 Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?  
Ps08013 The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.  
Ps08014 Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,  
Ps08015 the stock that your right hand planted, and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.  
Ps08016 They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face!  
Ps08017 But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!  
Ps08018 Then we shall not turn back from you; give us life, and we will call upon your name!  
Ps08019 Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved!  
Ps08101 Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!  
Ps08102 Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.  
Ps08103 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.  
Ps08104 For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob.  
Ps08105 He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known:  
Ps08106 “I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.  
Ps08107 In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah  
Ps08108 Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!  
Ps08109 There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.  
Ps08110 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.  
Ps08111 “But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.  
Ps08112 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.  
Ps08113 Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!  
Ps08114 I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.  
Ps08115 Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever.  
Ps08116 But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”  
Ps08201 God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:  
Ps08202 “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah  
Ps08203 Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.  
Ps08204 Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”  
Ps08205 They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.  
Ps08206 I said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;  
Ps08207 nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince.”  
Ps08208 Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!  
Ps08301 O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God!  
Ps08302 For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads.  
Ps08303 They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones.  
Ps08304 They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”  
Ps08305 For they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant—  
Ps08306 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,  
Ps08307 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;  
Ps08308 Asshur also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah  
Ps08309 Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,  
Ps08310 who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.  
Ps08311 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,  
Ps08312 who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God.”  
Ps08313 O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.  
Ps08314 As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,  
Ps08315 so may you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane!  
Ps08316 Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O LORD.  
Ps08317 Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; let them perish in disgrace,  
Ps08318 that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.  
Ps08401 How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!  
Ps08402 My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.  
Ps08403 Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.  
Ps08404 Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise! Selah  
Ps08405 Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.  
Ps08406 As they go through the Valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.  
Ps08407 They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion.  
Ps08408 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah  
Ps08409 Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed!  
Ps08410 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.  
Ps08411 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.  
Ps08412 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you!  
Ps08501 LORD, you were favorable to your land; you restored the fortunes of Jacob.  
Ps08502 You forgave the iniquity of your people; you covered all their sin. Selah  
Ps08503 You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your hot anger.  
Ps08504 Restore us again, O God of our salvation, and put away your indignation toward us!  
Ps08505 Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger to all generations?  
Ps08506 Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?  
Ps08507 Show us your steadfast love, O LORD, and grant us your salvation.  
Ps08508 Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.  
Ps08509 Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.  
Ps08510 Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.  
Ps08511 Faithfulness springs up from the ground, and righteousness looks down from the sky.  
Ps08512 Yes, the LORD will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.  
Ps08513 Righteousness will go before him and make his footsteps a way.  
Ps08601 Incline your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.  
Ps08602 Preserve my life, for I am godly; save your servant, who trusts in you—you are my God.  
Ps08603 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for to you do I cry all the day.  
Ps08604 Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.  
Ps08605 For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.  
Ps08606 Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; listen to my plea for grace.  
Ps08607 In the day of my trouble I call upon you, for you answer me.  
Ps08608 There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.  
Ps08609 All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.  
Ps08610 For you are great and do wondrous things; you alone are God.  
Ps08611 Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.  
Ps08612 I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever.  
Ps08613 For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.  
Ps08614 O God, insolent men have risen up against me; a band of ruthless men seeks my life, and they do not set you before them.  
Ps08615 But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.  
Ps08616 Turn to me and be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your maidservant.  
Ps08617 Show me a sign of your favor, that those who hate me may see and be put to shame because you, LORD, have helped me and comforted me.  
Ps08701 On the holy mount stands the city he founded;  
Ps08702 the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.  
Ps08703 Glorious things of you are spoken, O city of God. Selah  
Ps08704 Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush— “This one was born there,” they say.  
Ps08705 And of Zion it shall be said, “This one and that one were born in her”; for the Most High himself will establish her.  
Ps08706 The LORD records as he registers the peoples, “This one was born there.” Selah  
Ps08707 Singers and dancers alike say, “All my springs are in you.”  
Ps08801 O LORD, God of my salvation, I cry out day and night before you.  
Ps08802 Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry!  
Ps08803 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.  
Ps08804 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength,  
Ps08805 like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand.  
Ps08806 You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep.  
Ps08807 Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah  
Ps08808 You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;  
Ps08809 my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O LORD; I spread out my hands to you.  
Ps08810 Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah  
Ps08811 Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon?  
Ps08812 Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?  
Ps08813 But I, O LORD, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you.  
Ps08814 O LORD, why do you cast my soul away? Why do you hide your face from me?  
Ps08815 Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.  
Ps08816 Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me.  
Ps08817 They surround me like a flood all day long; they close in on me together.  
Ps08818 You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.  
Ps08901 I will sing of the steadfast love of the LORD, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.  
Ps08902 For I said, “Steadfast love will be built up forever; in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness.”  
Ps08903 You have said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant:  
Ps08904 ‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.’” Selah  
Ps08905 Let the heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!  
Ps08906 For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD,  
Ps08907 a God greatly to be feared in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all who are around him?  
Ps08908 O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as you are, O LORD, with your faithfulness all around you?  
Ps08909 You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them.  
Ps08910 You crushed Rahab like a carcass; you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.  
Ps08911 The heavens are yours; the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it, you have founded them.  
Ps08912 The north and the south, you have created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.  
Ps08913 You have a mighty arm; strong is your hand, high your right hand.  
Ps08914 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.  
Ps08915 Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O LORD, in the light of your face,  
Ps08916 who exult in your name all the day and in your righteousness are exalted.  
Ps08917 For you are the glory of their strength; by your favor our horn is exalted.  
Ps08918 For our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.  
Ps08919 Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one, and said: “I have granted help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people.  
Ps08920 I have found David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him,  
Ps08921 so that my hand shall be established with him; my arm also shall strengthen him.  
Ps08922 The enemy shall not outwit him; the wicked shall not humble him.  
Ps08923 I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.  
Ps08924 My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted.  
Ps08925 I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.  
Ps08926 He shall cry to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.’  
Ps08927 And I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.  
Ps08928 My steadfast love I will keep for him forever, and my covenant will stand firm for him.  
Ps08929 I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens.  
Ps08930 If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my rules,  
Ps08931 if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments,  
Ps08932 then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes,  
Ps08933 but I will not remove from him my steadfast love or be false to my faithfulness.  
Ps08934 I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips.  
Ps08935 Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.  
Ps08936 His offspring shall endure forever, his throne as long as the sun before me.  
Ps08937 Like the moon it shall be established forever, a faithful witness in the skies.” Selah  
Ps08938 But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed.  
Ps08939 You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust.  
Ps08940 You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins.  
Ps08941 All who pass by plunder him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors.  
Ps08942 You have exalted the right hand of his foes; you have made all his enemies rejoice.  
Ps08943 You have also turned back the edge of his sword, and you have not made him stand in battle.  
Ps08944 You have made his splendor to cease and cast his throne to the ground.  
Ps08945 You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah  
Ps08946 How long, O LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?  
Ps08947 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!  
Ps08948 What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah  
Ps08949 Lord, where is your steadfast love of old, which by your faithfulness you swore to David?  
Ps08950 Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked, and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations,  
Ps08951 with which your enemies mock, O LORD, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.  
Ps08952 Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and Amen.  
Ps09001 Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.  
Ps09002 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.  
Ps09003 You return man to dust and say, “Return, O children of man!”  
Ps09004 For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.  
Ps09005 You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning:  
Ps09006 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.  
Ps09007 For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed.  
Ps09008 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.  
Ps09009 For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh.  
Ps09010 The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.  
Ps09011 Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you?  
Ps09012 So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.  
Ps09013 Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on your servants!  
Ps09014 Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.  
Ps09015 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil.  
Ps09016 Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children.  
Ps09017 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!  
Ps09101 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.  
Ps09102 I will say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”  
Ps09103 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.  
Ps09104 He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.  
Ps09105 You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,  
Ps09106 nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.  
Ps09107 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.  
Ps09108 You will only look with your eyes and see the recompense of the wicked.  
Ps09109 Because you have made the LORD your dwelling place— the Most High, who is my refuge—  
Ps09110 no evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent.  
Ps09111 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.  
Ps09112 On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.  
Ps09113 You will tread on the lion and the adder; the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.  
Ps09114 “Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name.  
Ps09115 When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.  
Ps09116 With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”  
Ps09201 It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, O Most High;  
Ps09202 to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night,  
Ps09203 to the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre.  
Ps09204 For you, O LORD, have made me glad by your work; at the works of your hands I sing for joy.  
Ps09205 How great are your works, O LORD! Your thoughts are very deep!  
Ps09206 The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this:  
Ps09207 that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;  
Ps09208 but you, O LORD, are on high forever.  
Ps09209 For behold, your enemies, O LORD, for behold, your enemies shall perish; all evildoers shall be scattered.  
Ps09210 But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; you have poured over me fresh oil.  
Ps09211 My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies; my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.  
Ps09212 The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.  
Ps09213 They are planted in the house of the LORD; they flourish in the courts of our God.  
Ps09214 They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,  
Ps09215 to declare that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.  
Ps09301 The LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.  
Ps09302 Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting.  
Ps09303 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring.  
Ps09304 Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty!  
Ps09305 Your decrees are very trustworthy; holiness befits your house, O LORD, forevermore.  
Ps09401 O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth!  
Ps09402 Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve!  
Ps09403 O LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?  
Ps09404 They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.  
Ps09405 They crush your people, O LORD, and afflict your heritage.  
Ps09406 They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;  
Ps09407 and they say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.”  
Ps09408 Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?  
Ps09409 He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?  
Ps09410 He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge—  
Ps09411 the LORD—knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath.  
Ps09412 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O LORD, and whom you teach out of your law,  
Ps09413 to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.  
Ps09414 For the LORD will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;  
Ps09415 for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.  
Ps09416 Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers?  
Ps09417 If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.  
Ps09418 When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, O LORD, held me up.  
Ps09419 When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.  
Ps09420 Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute?  
Ps09421 They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.  
Ps09422 But the LORD has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge.  
Ps09423 He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the LORD our God will wipe them out.  
Ps09501 Oh come, let us sing to the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!  
Ps09502 Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!  
Ps09503 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.  
Ps09504 In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also.  
Ps09505 The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.  
Ps09506 Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!  
Ps09507 For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice,  
Ps09508 do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,  
Ps09509 when your fathers put me to the test and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.  
Ps09510 For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.”  
Ps09511 Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter my rest.”  
Ps09601 Oh sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth!  
Ps09602 Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.  
Ps09603 Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!  
Ps09604 For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.  
Ps09605 For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the LORD made the heavens.  
Ps09606 Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.  
Ps09607 Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength!  
Ps09608 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts!  
Ps09609 Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth!  
Ps09610 Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.”  
Ps09611 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it;  
Ps09612 let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy  
Ps09613 before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.  
Ps09701 The LORD reigns, let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad!  
Ps09702 Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.  
Ps09703 Fire goes before him and burns up his adversaries all around.  
Ps09704 His lightnings light up the world; the earth sees and trembles.  
Ps09705 The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.  
Ps09706 The heavens proclaim his righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory.  
Ps09707 All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols; worship him, all you gods!  
Ps09708 Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of your judgments, O LORD.  
Ps09709 For you, O LORD, are most high over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.  
Ps09710 O you who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.  
Ps09711 Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.  
Ps09712 Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous, and give thanks to his holy name!  
Ps09801 Oh sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.  
Ps09802 The LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.  
Ps09803 He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.  
Ps09804 Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises!  
Ps09805 Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody!  
Ps09806 With trumpets and the sound of the horn make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD!  
Ps09807 Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; the world and those who dwell in it!  
Ps09808 Let the rivers clap their hands; let the hills sing for joy together  
Ps09809 before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.  
Ps09901 The LORD reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!  
Ps09902 The LORD is great in Zion; he is exalted over all the peoples.  
Ps09903 Let them praise your great and awesome name! Holy is he!  
Ps09904 The King in his might loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.  
Ps09905 Exalt the LORD our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he!  
Ps09906 Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel also was among those who called upon his name. They called to the LORD, and he answered them.  
Ps09907 In the pillar of the cloud he spoke to them; they kept his testimonies and the statute that he gave them.  
Ps09908 O LORD our God, you answered them; you were a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings.  
Ps09909 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for the LORD our God is holy!  
Ps10001 Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth!  
Ps10002 Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!  
Ps10003 Know that the LORD, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.  
Ps10004 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!  
Ps10005 For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.  
Ps10101 I will sing of steadfast love and justice; to you, O LORD, I will make music.  
Ps10102 I will ponder the way that is blameless. Oh when will you come to me? I will walk with integrity of heart within my house;  
Ps10103 I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.  
Ps10104 A perverse heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil.  
Ps10105 Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.  
Ps10106 I will look with favor on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way that is blameless shall minister to me.  
Ps10107 No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies shall continue before my eyes.  
Ps10108 Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the LORD.  
Ps10201 Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry come to you!  
Ps10202 Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress! Incline your ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call!  
Ps10203 For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.  
Ps10204 My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread.  
Ps10205 Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my flesh.  
Ps10206 I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;  
Ps10207 I lie awake; I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop.  
Ps10208 All the day my enemies taunt me; those who deride me use my name for a curse.  
Ps10209 For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,  
Ps10210 because of your indignation and anger; for you have taken me up and thrown me down.  
Ps10211 My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.  
Ps10212 But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations.  
Ps10213 You will arise and have pity on Zion; it is the time to favor her; the appointed time has come.  
Ps10214 For your servants hold her stones dear and have pity on her dust.  
Ps10215 Nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear your glory.  
Ps10216 For the LORD builds up Zion; he appears in his glory;  
Ps10217 he regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer.  
Ps10218 Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet to be created may praise the LORD:  
Ps10219 that he looked down from his holy height; from heaven the LORD looked at the earth,  
Ps10220 to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die,  
Ps10221 that they may declare in Zion the name of the LORD, and in Jerusalem his praise,  
Ps10222 when peoples gather together, and kingdoms, to worship the LORD.  
Ps10223 He has broken my strength in midcourse; he has shortened my days.  
Ps10224 “O my God,” I say, “take me not away in the midst of my days— you whose years endure throughout all generations!”  
Ps10225 Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.  
Ps10226 They will perish, but you will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,  
Ps10227 but you are the same, and your years have no end.  
Ps10228 The children of your servants shall dwell secure; their offspring shall be established before you.  
Ps10301 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!  
Ps10302 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,  
Ps10303 who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,  
Ps10304 who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,  
Ps10305 who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.  
Ps10306 The LORD works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.  
Ps10307 He made known his ways to Moses, his acts to the people of Israel.  
Ps10308 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.  
Ps10309 He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever.  
Ps10310 He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.  
Ps10311 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;  
Ps10312 as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.  
Ps10313 As a father shows compassion to his children, so the LORD shows compassion to those who fear him.  
Ps10314 For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.  
Ps10315 As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field;  
Ps10316 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.  
Ps10317 But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children,  
Ps10318 to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.  
Ps10319 The LORD has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.  
Ps10320 Bless the LORD, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, obeying the voice of his word!  
Ps10321 Bless the LORD, all his hosts, his ministers, who do his will!  
Ps10322 Bless the LORD, all his works, in all places of his dominion. Bless the LORD, O my soul!  
Ps10401 Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty,  
Ps10402 covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent.  
Ps10403 He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind;  
Ps10404 he makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire.  
Ps10405 He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.  
Ps10406 You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.  
Ps10407 At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they took to flight.  
Ps10408 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them.  
Ps10409 You set a boundary that they may not pass, so that they might not again cover the earth.  
Ps10410 You make springs gush forth in the valleys; they flow between the hills;  
Ps10411 they give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.  
Ps10412 Beside them the birds of the heavens dwell; they sing among the branches.  
Ps10413 From your lofty abode you water the mountains; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work.  
Ps10414 You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth  
Ps10415 and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man’s heart.  
Ps10416 The trees of the LORD are watered abundantly, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.  
Ps10417 In them the birds build their nests; the stork has her home in the fir trees.  
Ps10418 The high mountains are for the wild goats; the rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.  
Ps10419 He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting.  
Ps10420 You make darkness, and it is night, when all the beasts of the forest creep about.  
Ps10421 The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God.  
Ps10422 When the sun rises, they steal away and lie down in their dens.  
Ps10423 Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening.  
Ps10424 O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.  
Ps10425 Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great.  
Ps10426 There go the ships, and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it.  
Ps10427 These all look to you, to give them their food in due season.  
Ps10428 When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.  
Ps10429 When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.  
Ps10430 When you send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.  
Ps10431 May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works,  
Ps10432 who looks on the earth and it trembles, who touches the mountains and they smoke!  
Ps10433 I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have being.  
Ps10434 May my meditation be pleasing to him, for I rejoice in the LORD.  
Ps10435 Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked be no more! Bless the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD!  
Ps10501 Oh give thanks to the LORD; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples!  
Ps10502 Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wondrous works!  
Ps10503 Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice!  
Ps10504 Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his presence continually!  
Ps10505 Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,  
Ps10506 O offspring of Abraham, his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones!  
Ps10507 He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.  
Ps10508 He remembers his covenant forever, the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,  
Ps10509 the covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,  
Ps10510 which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,  
Ps10511 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan as your portion for an inheritance.”  
Ps10512 When they were few in number, of little account, and sojourners in it,  
Ps10513 wandering from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people,  
Ps10514 he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their account,  
Ps10515 saying, “Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!”  
Ps10516 When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread,  
Ps10517 he had sent a man ahead of them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.  
Ps10518 His feet were hurt with fetters; his neck was put in a collar of iron;  
Ps10519 until what he had said came to pass, the word of the LORD tested him.  
Ps10520 The king sent and released him; the ruler of the peoples set him free;  
Ps10521 he made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions,  
Ps10522 to bind his princes at his pleasure and to teach his elders wisdom.  
Ps10523 Then Israel came to Egypt; Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.  
Ps10524 And the LORD made his people very fruitful and made them stronger than their foes.  
Ps10525 He turned their hearts to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.  
Ps10526 He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.  
Ps10527 They performed his signs among them and miracles in the land of Ham.  
Ps10528 He sent darkness, and made the land dark; they did not rebel against his words.  
Ps10529 He turned their waters into blood and caused their fish to die.  
Ps10530 Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the chambers of their kings.  
Ps10531 He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country.  
Ps10532 He gave them hail for rain, and fiery lightning bolts through their land.  
Ps10533 He struck down their vines and fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.  
Ps10534 He spoke, and the locusts came, young locusts without number,  
Ps10535 which devoured all the vegetation in their land and ate up the fruit of their ground.  
Ps10536 He struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their strength.  
Ps10537 Then he brought out Israel with silver and gold, and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.  
Ps10538 Egypt was glad when they departed, for dread of them had fallen upon it.  
Ps10539 He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light by night.  
Ps10540 They asked, and he brought quail, and gave them bread from heaven in abundance.  
Ps10541 He opened the rock, and water gushed out; it flowed through the desert like a river.  
Ps10542 For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham, his servant.  
Ps10543 So he brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with singing.  
Ps10544 And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples’ toil,  
Ps10545 that they might keep his statutes and observe his laws. Praise the LORD!  
Ps10601 Praise the LORD! Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!  
Ps10602 Who can utter the mighty deeds of the LORD, or declare all his praise?  
Ps10603 Blessed are they who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times!  
Ps10604 Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people; help me when you save them,  
Ps10605 that I may look upon the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.  
Ps10606 Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.  
Ps10607 Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.  
Ps10608 Yet he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make known his mighty power.  
Ps10609 He rebuked the Red Sea, and it became dry, and he led them through the deep as through a desert.  
Ps10610 So he saved them from the hand of the foe and redeemed them from the power of the enemy.  
Ps10611 And the waters covered their adversaries; not one of them was left.  
Ps10612 Then they believed his words; they sang his praise.  
Ps10613 But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.  
Ps10614 But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert;  
Ps10615 he gave them what they asked, but sent a wasting disease among them.  
Ps10616 When men in the camp were jealous of Moses and Aaron, the holy one of the LORD,  
Ps10617 the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.  
Ps10618 Fire also broke out in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.  
Ps10619 They made a calf in Horeb and worshiped a metal image.  
Ps10620 They exchanged the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass.  
Ps10621 They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,  
Ps10622 wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.  
Ps10623 Therefore he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.  
Ps10624 Then they despised the pleasant land, having no faith in his promise.  
Ps10625 They murmured in their tents, and did not obey the voice of the LORD.  
Ps10626 Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them that he would make them fall in the wilderness,  
Ps10627 and would make their offspring fall among the nations, scattering them among the lands.  
Ps10628 Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;  
Ps10629 they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.  
Ps10630 Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stayed.  
Ps10631 And that was counted to him as righteousness from generation to generation forever.  
Ps10632 They angered him at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account,  
Ps10633 for they made his spirit bitter, and he spoke rashly with his lips.  
Ps10634 They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them,  
Ps10635 but they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did.  
Ps10636 They served their idols, which became a snare to them.  
Ps10637 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons;  
Ps10638 they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.  
Ps10639 Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.  
Ps10640 Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people, and he abhorred his heritage;  
Ps10641 he gave them into the hand of the nations, so that those who hated them ruled over them.  
Ps10642 Their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their power.  
Ps10643 Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their purposes and were brought low through their iniquity.  
Ps10644 Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress, when he heard their cry.  
Ps10645 For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.  
Ps10646 He caused them to be pitied by all those who held them captive.  
Ps10647 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise.  
Ps10648 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, “Amen!” Praise the LORD!  
Ps10701 Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!  
Ps10702 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble  
Ps10703 and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.  
Ps10704 Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in;  
Ps10705 hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.  
Ps10706 Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.  
Ps10707 He led them by a straight way till they reached a city to dwell in.  
Ps10708 Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!  
Ps10709 For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.  
Ps10710 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons,  
Ps10711 for they had rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel of the Most High.  
Ps10712 So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor; they fell down, with none to help.  
Ps10713 Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.  
Ps10714 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and burst their bonds apart.  
Ps10715 Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!  
Ps10716 For he shatters the doors of bronze and cuts in two the bars of iron.  
Ps10717 Some were fools through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;  
Ps10718 they loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.  
Ps10719 Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.  
Ps10720 He sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction.  
Ps10721 Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!  
Ps10722 And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of his deeds in songs of joy!  
Ps10723 Some went down to the sea in ships, doing business on the great waters;  
Ps10724 they saw the deeds of the LORD, his wondrous works in the deep.  
Ps10725 For he commanded and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea.  
Ps10726 They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths; their courage melted away in their evil plight;  
Ps10727 they reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wits’ end.  
Ps10728 Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.  
Ps10729 He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.  
Ps10730 Then they were glad that the waters were quiet, and he brought them to their desired haven.  
Ps10731 Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!  
Ps10732 Let them extol him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.  
Ps10733 He turns rivers into a desert, springs of water into thirsty ground,  
Ps10734 a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.  
Ps10735 He turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water.  
Ps10736 And there he lets the hungry dwell, and they establish a city to live in;  
Ps10737 they sow fields and plant vineyards and get a fruitful yield.  
Ps10738 By his blessing they multiply greatly, and he does not let their livestock diminish.  
Ps10739 When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, evil, and sorrow,  
Ps10740 he pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes;  
Ps10741 but he raises up the needy out of affliction and makes their families like flocks.  
Ps10742 The upright see it and are glad, and all wickedness shuts its mouth.  
Ps10743 Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things; let them consider the steadfast love of the LORD.  
Ps10801 My heart is steadfast, O God! I will sing and make melody with all my being!  
Ps10802 Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!  
Ps10803 I will give thanks to you, O LORD, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations.  
Ps10804 For your steadfast love is great above the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.  
Ps10805 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth!  
Ps10806 That your beloved ones may be delivered, give salvation by your right hand and answer me!  
Ps10807 God has promised in his holiness: “With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Valley of Succoth.  
Ps10808 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet, Judah my scepter.  
Ps10809 Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph.”  
Ps10810 Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?  
Ps10811 Have you not rejected us, O God? You do not go out, O God, with our armies.  
Ps10812 Oh grant us help against the foe, for vain is the salvation of man!  
Ps10813 With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes.  
Ps10901 Be not silent, O God of my praise!  
Ps10902 For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.  
Ps10903 They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.  
Ps10904 In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer.  
Ps10905 So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.  
Ps10906 Appoint a wicked man against him; let an accuser stand at his right hand.  
Ps10907 When he is tried, let him come forth guilty; let his prayer be counted as sin!  
Ps10908 May his days be few; may another take his office!  
Ps10909 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!  
Ps10910 May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!  
Ps10911 May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!  
Ps10912 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children!  
Ps10913 May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!  
Ps10914 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out!  
Ps10915 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth!  
Ps10916 For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death.  
Ps10917 He loved to curse; let curses come upon him! He did not delight in blessing; may it be far from him!  
Ps10918 He clothed himself with cursing as his coat; may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!  
Ps10919 May it be like a garment that he wraps around him, like a belt that he puts on every day!  
Ps10920 May this be the reward of my accusers from the LORD, of those who speak evil against my life!  
Ps10921 But you, O GOD my Lord, deal on my behalf for your name’s sake; because your steadfast love is good, deliver me!  
Ps10922 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is stricken within me.  
Ps10923 I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.  
Ps10924 My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat.  
Ps10925 I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they wag their heads.  
Ps10926 Help me, O LORD my God! Save me according to your steadfast love!  
Ps10927 Let them know that this is your hand; you, O LORD, have done it!  
Ps10928 Let them curse, but you will bless! They arise and are put to shame, but your servant will be glad!  
Ps10929 May my accusers be clothed with dishonor; may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a cloak!  
Ps10930 With my mouth I will give great thanks to the LORD; I will praise him in the midst of the throng.  
Ps10931 For he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.  
Ps11001 The LORD says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”  
Ps11002 The LORD sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your enemies!  
Ps11003 Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power, in holy garments; from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours.  
Ps11004 The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind, “You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.”  
Ps11005 The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.  
Ps11006 He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.  
Ps11007 He will drink from the brook by the way; therefore he will lift up his head.  
Ps11101 Praise the LORD! I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation.  
Ps11102 Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who delight in them.  
Ps11103 Full of splendor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures forever.  
Ps11104 He has caused his wondrous works to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and merciful.  
Ps11105 He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever.  
Ps11106 He has shown his people the power of his works, in giving them the inheritance of the nations.  
Ps11107 The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy;  
Ps11108 they are established forever and ever, to be performed with faithfulness and uprightness.  
Ps11109 He sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant forever. Holy and awesome is his name!  
Ps11110 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!  
Ps11201 Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments!  
Ps11202 His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.  
Ps11203 Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.  
Ps11204 Light dawns in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious, merciful, and righteous.  
Ps11205 It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.  
Ps11206 For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered forever.  
Ps11207 He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the LORD.  
Ps11208 His heart is steady; he will not be afraid, until he looks in triumph on his adversaries.  
Ps11209 He has distributed freely; he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn is exalted in honor.  
Ps11210 The wicked man sees it and is angry; he gnashes his teeth and melts away; the desire of the wicked will perish!  
Ps11301 Praise the LORD! Praise, O servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD!  
Ps11302 Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and forevermore!  
Ps11303 From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the LORD is to be praised!  
Ps11304 The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens!  
Ps11305 Who is like the LORD our God, who is seated on high,  
Ps11306 who looks far down on the heavens and the earth?  
Ps11307 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap,  
Ps11308 to make them sit with princes, with the princes of his people.  
Ps11309 He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the LORD!  
Ps11401 When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,  
Ps11402 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.  
Ps11403 The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back.  
Ps11404 The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.  
Ps11405 What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?  
Ps11406 O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs?  
Ps11407 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,  
Ps11408 who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.  
Ps11501 Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!  
Ps11502 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”  
Ps11503 Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.  
Ps11504 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.  
Ps11505 They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see.  
Ps11506 They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell.  
Ps11507 They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; and they do not make a sound in their throat.  
Ps11508 Those who make them become like them; so do all who trust in them.  
Ps11509 O Israel, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.  
Ps11510 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.  
Ps11511 You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD! He is their help and their shield.  
Ps11512 The LORD has remembered us; he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron;  
Ps11513 he will bless those who fear the LORD, both the small and the great.  
Ps11514 May the LORD give you increase, you and your children!  
Ps11515 May you be blessed by the LORD, who made heaven and earth!  
Ps11516 The heavens are the LORD’s heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of man.  
Ps11517 The dead do not praise the LORD, nor do any who go down into silence.  
Ps11518 But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and forevermore. Praise the LORD!  
Ps11601 I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy.  
Ps11602 Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.  
Ps11603 The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.  
Ps11604 Then I called on the name of the LORD: “O LORD, I pray, deliver my soul!”  
Ps11605 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; our God is merciful.  
Ps11606 The LORD preserves the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me.  
Ps11607 Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.  
Ps11608 For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling;  
Ps11609 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.  
Ps11610 I believed, even when I spoke: “I am greatly afflicted”;  
Ps11611 I said in my alarm, “All mankind are liars.”  
Ps11612 What shall I render to the LORD for all his benefits to me?  
Ps11613 I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD,  
Ps11614 I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people.  
Ps11615 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.  
Ps11616 O LORD, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds.  
Ps11617 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.  
Ps11618 I will pay my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people,  
Ps11619 in the courts of the house of the LORD, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD!  
Ps11701 Praise the LORD, all nations! Extol him, all peoples!  
Ps11702 For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD!  
Ps11801 Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!  
Ps11802 Let Israel say, “His steadfast love endures forever.”  
Ps11803 Let the house of Aaron say, “His steadfast love endures forever.”  
Ps11804 Let those who fear the LORD say, “His steadfast love endures forever.”  
Ps11805 Out of my distress I called on the LORD; the LORD answered me and set me free.  
Ps11806 The LORD is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?  
Ps11807 The LORD is on my side as my helper; I shall look in triumph on those who hate me.  
Ps11808 It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.  
Ps11809 It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.  
Ps11810 All nations surrounded me; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!  
Ps11811 They surrounded me, surrounded me on every side; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!  
Ps11812 They surrounded me like bees; they went out like a fire among thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!  
Ps11813 I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but the LORD helped me.  
Ps11814 The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.  
Ps11815 Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the LORD does valiantly,  
Ps11816 the right hand of the LORD exalts, the right hand of the LORD does valiantly!”  
Ps11817 I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the LORD.  
Ps11818 The LORD has disciplined me severely, but he has not given me over to death.  
Ps11819 Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.  
Ps11820 This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter through it.  
Ps11821 I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation.  
Ps11822 The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.  
Ps11823 This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.  
Ps11824 This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.  
Ps11825 Save us, we pray, O LORD! O LORD, we pray, give us success!  
Ps11826 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! We bless you from the house of the LORD.  
Ps11827 The LORD is God, and he has made his light to shine upon us. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords, up to the horns of the altar!  
Ps11828 You are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God; I will extol you.  
Ps11829 Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!  
Ps119001 Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD!  
Ps119002 Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,  
Ps119003 who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways!  
Ps119004 You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.  
Ps119005 Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes!  
Ps119006 Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.  
Ps119007 I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.  
Ps119008 I will keep your statutes; do not utterly forsake me!  
Ps119009 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.  
Ps119010 With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!  
Ps119011 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.  
Ps119012 Blessed are you, O LORD; teach me your statutes!  
Ps119013 With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth.  
Ps119014 In the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.  
Ps119015 I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways.  
Ps119016 I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word.  
Ps119017 Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word.  
Ps119018 Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.  
Ps119019 I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your commandments from me!  
Ps119020 My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at all times.  
Ps119021 You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from your commandments.  
Ps119022 Take away from me scorn and contempt, for I have kept your testimonies.  
Ps119023 Even though princes sit plotting against me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.  
Ps119024 Your testimonies are my delight; they are my counselors.  
Ps119025 My soul clings to the dust; give me life according to your word!  
Ps119026 When I told of my ways, you answered me; teach me your statutes!  
Ps119027 Make me understand the way of your precepts, and I will meditate on your wondrous works.  
Ps119028 My soul melts away for sorrow; strengthen me according to your word!  
Ps119029 Put false ways far from me and graciously teach me your law!  
Ps119030 I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me.  
Ps119031 I cling to your testimonies, O LORD; let me not be put to shame!  
Ps119032 I will run in the way of your commandments when you enlarge my heart!  
Ps119033 Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes; and I will keep it to the end.  
Ps119034 Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart.  
Ps119035 Lead me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in it.  
Ps119036 Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain!  
Ps119037 Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.  
Ps119038 Confirm to your servant your promise, that you may be feared.  
Ps119039 Turn away the reproach that I dread, for your rules are good.  
Ps119040 Behold, I long for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life!  
Ps119041 Let your steadfast love come to me, O LORD, your salvation according to your promise;  
Ps119042 then shall I have an answer for him who taunts me, for I trust in your word.  
Ps119043 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in your rules.  
Ps119044 I will keep your law continually, forever and ever,  
Ps119045 and I shall walk in a wide place, for I have sought your precepts.  
Ps119046 I will also speak of your testimonies before kings and shall not be put to shame,  
Ps119047 for I find my delight in your commandments, which I love.  
Ps119048 I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.  
Ps119049 Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope.  
Ps119050 This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.  
Ps119051 The insolent utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law.  
Ps119052 When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O LORD.  
Ps119053 Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, who forsake your law.  
Ps119054 Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning.  
Ps119055 I remember your name in the night, O LORD, and keep your law.  
Ps119056 This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept your precepts.  
Ps119057 The LORD is my portion; I promise to keep your words.  
Ps119058 I entreat your favor with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise.  
Ps119059 When I think on my ways, I turn my feet to your testimonies;  
Ps119060 I hasten and do not delay to keep your commandments.  
Ps119061 Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me, I do not forget your law.  
Ps119062 At midnight I rise to praise you, because of your righteous rules.  
Ps119063 I am a companion of all who fear you, of those who keep your precepts.  
Ps119064 The earth, O LORD, is full of your steadfast love; teach me your statutes!  
Ps119065 You have dealt well with your servant, O LORD, according to your word.  
Ps119066 Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.  
Ps119067 Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.  
Ps119068 You are good and do good; teach me your statutes.  
Ps119069 The insolent smear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep your precepts;  
Ps119070 their heart is unfeeling like fat, but I delight in your law.  
Ps119071 It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes.  
Ps119072 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.  
Ps119073 Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.  
Ps119074 Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice, because I have hoped in your word.  
Ps119075 I know, O LORD, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.  
Ps119076 Let your steadfast love comfort me according to your promise to your servant.  
Ps119077 Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.  
Ps119078 Let the insolent be put to shame, because they have wronged me with falsehood; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.  
Ps119079 Let those who fear you turn to me, that they may know your testimonies.  
Ps119080 May my heart be blameless in your statutes, that I may not be put to shame!  
Ps119081 My soul longs for your salvation; I hope in your word.  
Ps119082 My eyes long for your promise; I ask, “When will you comfort me?”  
Ps119083 For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes.  
Ps119084 How long must your servant endure? When will you judge those who persecute me?  
Ps119085 The insolent have dug pitfalls for me; they do not live according to your law.  
Ps119086 All your commandments are sure; they persecute me with falsehood; help me!  
Ps119087 They have almost made an end of me on earth, but I have not forsaken your precepts.  
Ps119088 In your steadfast love give me life, that I may keep the testimonies of your mouth.  
Ps119089 Forever, O LORD, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens.  
Ps119090 Your faithfulness endures to all generations; you have established the earth, and it stands fast.  
Ps119091 By your appointment they stand this day, for all things are your servants.  
Ps119092 If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.  
Ps119093 I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have given me life.  
Ps119094 I am yours; save me, for I have sought your precepts.  
Ps119095 The wicked lie in wait to destroy me, but I consider your testimonies.  
Ps119096 I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commandment is exceedingly broad.  
Ps119097 Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.  
Ps119098 Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me.  
Ps119099 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.  
Ps119100 I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.  
Ps119101 I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word.  
Ps119102 I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me.  
Ps119103 How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!  
Ps119104 Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.  
Ps119105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.  
Ps119106 I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to keep your righteous rules.  
Ps119107 I am severely afflicted; give me life, O LORD, according to your word!  
Ps119108 Accept my freewill offerings of praise, O LORD, and teach me your rules.  
Ps119109 I hold my life in my hand continually, but I do not forget your law.  
Ps119110 The wicked have laid a snare for me, but I do not stray from your precepts.  
Ps119111 Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.  
Ps119112 I incline my heart to perform your statutes forever, to the end.  
Ps119113 I hate the double-minded, but I love your law.  
Ps119114 You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word.  
Ps119115 Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.  
Ps119116 Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live, and let me not be put to shame in my hope!  
Ps119117 Hold me up, that I may be safe and have regard for your statutes continually!  
Ps119118 You spurn all who go astray from your statutes, for their cunning is in vain.  
Ps119119 All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross, therefore I love your testimonies.  
Ps119120 My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments.  
Ps119121 I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.  
Ps119122 Give your servant a pledge of good; let not the insolent oppress me.  
Ps119123 My eyes long for your salvation and for the fulfillment of your righteous promise.  
Ps119124 Deal with your servant according to your steadfast love, and teach me your statutes.  
Ps119125 I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies!  
Ps119126 It is time for the LORD to act, for your law has been broken.  
Ps119127 Therefore I love your commandments above gold, above fine gold.  
Ps119128 Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right; I hate every false way.  
Ps119129 Your testimonies are wonderful; therefore my soul keeps them.  
Ps119130 The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.  
Ps119131 I open my mouth and pant, because I long for your commandments.  
Ps119132 Turn to me and be gracious to me, as is your way with those who love your name.  
Ps119133 Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.  
Ps119134 Redeem me from man’s oppression, that I may keep your precepts.  
Ps119135 Make your face shine upon your servant, and teach me your statutes.  
Ps119136 My eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep your law.  
Ps119137 Righteous are you, O LORD, and right are your rules.  
Ps119138 You have appointed your testimonies in righteousness and in all faithfulness.  
Ps119139 My zeal consumes me, because my foes forget your words.  
Ps119140 Your promise is well tried, and your servant loves it.  
Ps119141 I am small and despised, yet I do not forget your precepts.  
Ps119142 Your righteousness is righteous forever, and your law is true.  
Ps119143 Trouble and anguish have found me out, but your commandments are my delight.  
Ps119144 Your testimonies are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live.  
Ps119145 With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O LORD! I will keep your statutes.  
Ps119146 I call to you; save me, that I may observe your testimonies.  
Ps119147 I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words.  
Ps119148 My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promise.  
Ps119149 Hear my voice according to your steadfast love; O LORD, according to your justice give me life.  
Ps119150 They draw near who persecute me with evil purpose; they are far from your law.  
Ps119151 But you are near, O LORD, and all your commandments are true.  
Ps119152 Long have I known from your testimonies that you have founded them forever.  
Ps119153 Look on my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget your law.  
Ps119154 Plead my cause and redeem me; give me life according to your promise!  
Ps119155 Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek your statutes.  
Ps119156 Great is your mercy, O LORD; give me life according to your rules.  
Ps119157 Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, but I do not swerve from your testimonies.  
Ps119158 I look at the faithless with disgust, because they do not keep your commands.  
Ps119159 Consider how I love your precepts! Give me life according to your steadfast love.  
Ps119160 The sum of your word is truth, and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.  
Ps119161 Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.  
Ps119162 I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil.  
Ps119163 I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love your law.  
Ps119164 Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous rules.  
Ps119165 Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.  
Ps119166 I hope for your salvation, O LORD, and I do your commandments.  
Ps119167 My soul keeps your testimonies; I love them exceedingly.  
Ps119168 I keep your precepts and testimonies, for all my ways are before you.  
Ps119169 Let my cry come before you, O LORD; give me understanding according to your word!  
Ps119170 Let my plea come before you; deliver me according to your word.  
Ps119171 My lips will pour forth praise, for you teach me your statutes.  
Ps119172 My tongue will sing of your word, for all your commandments are right.  
Ps119173 Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.  
Ps119174 I long for your salvation, O LORD, and your law is my delight.  
Ps119175 Let my soul live and praise you, and let your rules help me.  
Ps119176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.  
Ps12001 In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me.  
Ps12002 Deliver me, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.  
Ps12003 What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you, you deceitful tongue?  
Ps12004 A warrior’s sharp arrows, with glowing coals of the broom tree!  
Ps12005 Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!  
Ps12006 Too long have I had my dwelling among those who hate peace.  
Ps12007 I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war!  
Ps12101 I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?  
Ps12102 My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.  
Ps12103 He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.  
Ps12104 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.  
Ps12105 The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade on your right hand.  
Ps12106 The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.  
Ps12107 The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.  
Ps12108 The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.  
Ps12201 I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!”  
Ps12202 Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem!  
Ps12203 Jerusalem—built as a city that is bound firmly together,  
Ps12204 to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.  
Ps12205 There thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David.  
Ps12206 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you!  
Ps12207 Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!”  
Ps12208 For my brothers and companions’ sake I will say, “Peace be within you!”  
Ps12209 For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good.  
Ps12301 To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens!  
Ps12302 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till he has mercy upon us.  
Ps12303 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt.  
Ps12304 Our soul has had more than enough of the scorn of those who are at ease, of the contempt of the proud.  
Ps12401 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side— let Israel now say—  
Ps12402 if it had not been the LORD who was on our side when people rose up against us,  
Ps12403 then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;  
Ps12404 then the flood would have swept us away, the torrent would have gone over us;  
Ps12405 then over us would have gone the raging waters.  
Ps12406 Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth!  
Ps12407 We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!  
Ps12408 Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.  
Ps12501 Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.  
Ps12502 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people, from this time forth and forevermore.  
Ps12503 For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous stretch out their hands to do wrong.  
Ps12504 Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in their hearts!  
Ps12505 But those who turn aside to their crooked ways the LORD will lead away with evildoers! Peace be upon Israel!  
Ps12601 When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream.  
Ps12602 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”  
Ps12603 The LORD has done great things for us; we are glad.  
Ps12604 Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like streams in the Negeb!  
Ps12605 Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!  
Ps12606 He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.  
Ps12701 Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.  
Ps12702 It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.  
Ps12703 Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward.  
Ps12704 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.  
Ps12705 Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.  
Ps12801 Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways!  
Ps12802 You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.  
Ps12803 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.  
Ps12804 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.  
Ps12805 The LORD bless you from Zion! May you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life!  
Ps12806 May you see your children’s children! Peace be upon Israel!  
Ps12901 “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”— let Israel now say—  
Ps12902 “Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.  
Ps12903 The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.”  
Ps12904 The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.  
Ps12905 May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!  
Ps12906 Let them be like the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,  
Ps12907 with which the reaper does not fill his hand nor the binder of sheaves his arms,  
Ps12908 nor do those who pass by say, “The blessing of the LORD be upon you! We bless you in the name of the LORD!”  
Ps13001 Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD!  
Ps13002 O Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy!  
Ps13003 If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?  
Ps13004 But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.  
Ps13005 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;  
Ps13006 my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.  
Ps13007 O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption.  
Ps13008 And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities.  
Ps13101 O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.  
Ps13102 But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.  
Ps13103 O Israel, hope in the LORD from this time forth and forevermore.  
Ps13201 Remember, O LORD, in David’s favor, all the hardships he endured,  
Ps13202 how he swore to the LORD and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,  
Ps13203 “I will not enter my house or get into my bed,  
Ps13204 I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids,  
Ps13205 until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.”  
Ps13206 Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah; we found it in the fields of Jaar.  
Ps13207 “Let us go to his dwelling place; let us worship at his footstool!”  
Ps13208 Arise, O LORD, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.  
Ps13209 Let your priests be clothed with righteousness, and let your saints shout for joy.  
Ps13210 For the sake of your servant David, do not turn away the face of your anointed one.  
Ps13211 The LORD swore to David a sure oath from which he will not turn back: “One of the sons of your body I will set on your throne.  
Ps13212 If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies that I shall teach them, their sons also forever shall sit on your throne.”  
Ps13213 For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his dwelling place:  
Ps13214 “This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it.  
Ps13215 I will abundantly bless her provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread.  
Ps13216 Her priests I will clothe with salvation, and her saints will shout for joy.  
Ps13217 There I will make a horn to sprout for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.  
Ps13218 His enemies I will clothe with shame, but on him his crown will shine.”  
Ps13301 Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!  
Ps13302 It is like the precious oil on the head, running down on the beard, on the beard of Aaron, running down on the collar of his robes!  
Ps13303 It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the LORD has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.  
Ps13401 Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the house of the LORD!  
Ps13402 Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the LORD!  
Ps13403 May the LORD bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth!  
Ps13501 Praise the LORD! Praise the name of the LORD, give praise, O servants of the LORD,  
Ps13502 who stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God!  
Ps13503 Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; sing to his name, for it is pleasant!  
Ps13504 For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his own possession.  
Ps13505 For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.  
Ps13506 Whatever the LORD pleases, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps.  
Ps13507 He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.  
Ps13508 He it was who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and of beast;  
Ps13509 who in your midst, O Egypt, sent signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants;  
Ps13510 who struck down many nations and killed mighty kings,  
Ps13511 Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan,  
Ps13512 and gave their land as a heritage, a heritage to his people Israel.  
Ps13513 Your name, O LORD, endures forever, your renown, O LORD, throughout all ages.  
Ps13514 For the LORD will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants.  
Ps13515 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.  
Ps13516 They have mouths, but do not speak; they have eyes, but do not see;  
Ps13517 they have ears, but do not hear, nor is there any breath in their mouths.  
Ps13518 Those who make them become like them, so do all who trust in them.  
Ps13519 O house of Israel, bless the LORD! O house of Aaron, bless the LORD!  
Ps13520 O house of Levi, bless the LORD! You who fear the LORD, bless the LORD!  
Ps13521 Blessed be the LORD from Zion, he who dwells in Jerusalem! Praise the LORD!  
Ps13601 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.  
Ps13602 Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever.  
Ps13603 Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13604 to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13605 to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13606 to him who spread out the earth above the waters, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13607 to him who made the great lights, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13608 the sun to rule over the day, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13609 the moon and stars to rule over the night, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13610 to him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13611 and brought Israel out from among them, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13612 with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13613 to him who divided the Red Sea in two, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13614 and made Israel pass through the midst of it, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13615 but overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13616 to him who led his people through the wilderness, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13617 to him who struck down great kings, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13618 and killed mighty kings, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13619 Sihon, king of the Amorites, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13620 and Og, king of Bashan, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13621 and gave their land as a heritage, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13622 a heritage to Israel his servant, for his steadfast love endures forever.  
Ps13623 It is he who remembered us in our low estate, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13624 and rescued us from our foes, for his steadfast love endures forever;  
Ps13625 he who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love endures forever.  
Ps13626 Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever.  
Ps13701 By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion.  
Ps13702 On the willows there we hung up our lyres.  
Ps13703 For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”  
Ps13704 How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?  
Ps13705 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill!  
Ps13706 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!  
Ps13707 Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!”  
Ps13708 O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us!  
Ps13709 Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!  
Ps13801 I give you thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing your praise;  
Ps13802 I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.  
Ps13803 On the day I called, you answered me; my strength of soul you increased.  
Ps13804 All the kings of the earth shall give you thanks, O LORD, for they have heard the words of your mouth,  
Ps13805 and they shall sing of the ways of the LORD, for great is the glory of the LORD.  
Ps13806 For though the LORD is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.  
Ps13807 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me.  
Ps13808 The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.  
Ps13901 O LORD, you have searched me and known me!  
Ps13902 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.  
Ps13903 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.  
Ps13904 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.  
Ps13905 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.  
Ps13906 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.  
Ps13907 Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?  
Ps13908 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!  
Ps13909 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,  
Ps13910 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.  
Ps13911 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,”  
Ps13912 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.  
Ps13913 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.  
Ps13914 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.  
Ps13915 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.  
Ps13916 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.  
Ps13917 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!  
Ps13918 If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.  
Ps13919 Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me!  
Ps13920 They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain.  
Ps13921 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?  
Ps13922 I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies.  
Ps13923 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!  
Ps13924 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!  
Ps14001 Deliver me, O LORD, from evil men; preserve me from violent men,  
Ps14002 who plan evil things in their heart and stir up wars continually.  
Ps14003 They make their tongue sharp as a serpent’s, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah  
Ps14004 Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men, who have planned to trip up my feet.  
Ps14005 The arrogant have hidden a trap for me, and with cords they have spread a net; beside the way they have set snares for me. Selah  
Ps14006 I say to the LORD, You are my God; give ear to the voice of my pleas for mercy, O LORD!  
Ps14007 O LORD, my Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.  
Ps14008 Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; do not further their evil plot, or they will be exalted! Selah  
Ps14009 As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!  
Ps14010 Let burning coals fall upon them! Let them be cast into fire, into miry pits, no more to rise!  
Ps14011 Let not the slanderer be established in the land; let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!  
Ps14012 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.  
Ps14013 Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name; the upright shall dwell in your presence.  
Ps14101 O LORD, I call upon you; hasten to me! Give ear to my voice when I call to you!  
Ps14102 Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!  
Ps14103 Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!  
Ps14104 Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies!  
Ps14105 Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.  
Ps14106 When their judges are thrown over the cliff, then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.  
Ps14107 As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.  
Ps14108 But my eyes are toward you, O GOD, my Lord; in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!  
Ps14109 Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers!  
Ps14110 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely.  
Ps14201 With my voice I cry out to the LORD; with my voice I plead for mercy to the LORD.  
Ps14202 I pour out my complaint before him; I tell my trouble before him.  
Ps14203 When my spirit faints within me, you know my way! In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.  
Ps14204 Look to the right and see: there is none who takes notice of me; no refuge remains to me; no one cares for my soul.  
Ps14205 I cry to you, O LORD; I say, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”  
Ps14206 Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low! Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me!  
Ps14207 Bring me out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name! The righteous will surround me, for you will deal bountifully with me.  
Ps14301 Hear my prayer, O LORD; give ear to my pleas for mercy! In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!  
Ps14302 Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.  
Ps14303 For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.  
Ps14304 Therefore my spirit faints within me; my heart within me is appalled.  
Ps14305 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands.  
Ps14306 I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah  
Ps14307 Answer me quickly, O LORD! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit.  
Ps14308 Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.  
Ps14309 Deliver me from my enemies, O LORD! I have fled to you for refuge.  
Ps14310 Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!  
Ps14311 For your name’s sake, O LORD, preserve my life! In your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble!  
Ps14312 And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies, and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant.  
Ps14401 Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle;  
Ps14402 he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.  
Ps14403 O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him?  
Ps14404 Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.  
Ps14405 Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke!  
Ps14406 Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them!  
Ps14407 Stretch out your hand from on high; rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of foreigners,  
Ps14408 whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.  
Ps14409 I will sing a new song to you, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you,  
Ps14410 who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword.  
Ps14411 Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.  
Ps14412 May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace;  
Ps14413 may our granaries be full, providing all kinds of produce; may our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;  
Ps14414 may our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mishap or failure in bearing; may there be no cry of distress in our streets!  
Ps14415 Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall! Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD!  
Ps14501 I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever.  
Ps14502 Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever.  
Ps14503 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.  
Ps14504 One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts.  
Ps14505 On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate.  
Ps14506 They shall speak of the might of your awesome deeds, and I will declare your greatness.  
Ps14507 They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.  
Ps14508 The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.  
Ps14509 The LORD is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.  
Ps14510 All your works shall give thanks to you, O LORD, and all your saints shall bless you!  
Ps14511 They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom and tell of your power,  
Ps14512 to make known to the children of man your mighty deeds, and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.  
Ps14513 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. [The LORD is faithful in all his words and kind in all his works.]  
Ps14514 The LORD upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down.  
Ps14515 The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season.  
Ps14516 You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing.  
Ps14517 The LORD is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works.  
Ps14518 The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.  
Ps14519 He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.  
Ps14520 The LORD preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.  
Ps14521 My mouth will speak the praise of the LORD, and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.  
Ps14601 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul!  
Ps14602 I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.  
Ps14603 Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.  
Ps14604 When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.  
Ps14605 Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,  
Ps14606 who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever;  
Ps14607 who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free;  
Ps14608 the LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down; the LORD loves the righteous.  
Ps14609 The LORD watches over the sojourners; he upholds the widow and the fatherless, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.  
Ps14610 The LORD will reign forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!  
Ps14701 Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting.  
Ps14702 The LORD builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the outcasts of Israel.  
Ps14703 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.  
Ps14704 He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.  
Ps14705 Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.  
Ps14706 The LORD lifts up the humble; he casts the wicked to the ground.  
Ps14707 Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make melody to our God on the lyre!  
Ps14708 He covers the heavens with clouds; he prepares rain for the earth; he makes grass grow on the hills.  
Ps14709 He gives to the beasts their food, and to the young ravens that cry.  
Ps14710 His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the legs of a man,  
Ps14711 but the LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.  
Ps14712 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!  
Ps14713 For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you.  
Ps14714 He makes peace in your borders; he fills you with the finest of the wheat.  
Ps14715 He sends out his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly.  
Ps14716 He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes.  
Ps14717 He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold?  
Ps14718 He sends out his word, and melts them; he makes his wind blow and the waters flow.  
Ps14719 He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and rules to Israel.  
Ps14720 He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the LORD!  
Ps14801 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens; praise him in the heights!  
Ps14802 Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts!  
Ps14803 Praise him, sun and moon, praise him, all you shining stars!  
Ps14804 Praise him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens!  
Ps14805 Let them praise the name of the LORD! For he commanded and they were created.  
Ps14806 And he established them forever and ever; he gave a decree, and it shall not pass away.  
Ps14807 Praise the LORD from the earth, you great sea creatures and all deeps,  
Ps14808 fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word!  
Ps14809 Mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars!  
Ps14810 Beasts and all livestock, creeping things and flying birds!  
Ps14811 Kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all rulers of the earth!  
Ps14812 Young men and maidens together, old men and children!  
Ps14813 Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above earth and heaven.  
Ps14814 He has raised up a horn for his people, praise for all his saints, for the people of Israel who are near to him. Praise the LORD!  
Ps14901 Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the godly!  
Ps14902 Let Israel be glad in his Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King!  
Ps14903 Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!  
Ps14904 For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.  
Ps14905 Let the godly exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds.  
Ps14906 Let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands,  
Ps14907 to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,  
Ps14908 to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron,  
Ps14909 to execute on them the judgment written! This is honor for all his godly ones. Praise the LORD!  
Ps15001 Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens!  
Ps15002 Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness!  
Ps15003 Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp!  
Ps15004 Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!  
Ps15005 Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!  
Ps15006 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!  
Pr0101 The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:  
Pr0102 To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight,  
Pr0103 to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;  
Pr0104 to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth—  
Pr0105 Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,  
Pr0106 to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.  
Pr0107 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.  
Pr0108 Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,  
Pr0109 for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.  
Pr0110 My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.  
Pr0111 If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason;  
Pr0112 like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;  
Pr0113 we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder;  
Pr0114 throw in your lot among us; we will all have one purse”—  
Pr0115 my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths,  
Pr0116 for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.  
Pr0117 For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird,  
Pr0118 but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.  
Pr0119 Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.  
Pr0120 Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice;  
Pr0121 at the head of the noisy streets she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:  
Pr0122 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?  
Pr0123 If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make my words known to you.  
Pr0124 Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded,  
Pr0125 because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof,  
Pr0126 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you,  
Pr0127 when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.  
Pr0128 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.  
Pr0129 Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD,  
Pr0130 would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof,  
Pr0131 therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices.  
Pr0132 For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them;  
Pr0133 but whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.”  
Pr0201 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,  
Pr0202 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;  
Pr0203 yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,  
Pr0204 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,  
Pr0205 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.  
Pr0206 For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;  
Pr0207 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,  
Pr0208 guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.  
Pr0209 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;  
Pr0210 for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;  
Pr0211 discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,  
Pr0212 delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,  
Pr0213 who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,  
Pr0214 who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,  
Pr0215 men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.  
Pr0216 So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,  
Pr0217 who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;  
Pr0218 for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed;  
Pr0219 none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.  
Pr0220 So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.  
Pr0221 For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,  
Pr0222 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.  
Pr0301 My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,  
Pr0302 for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.  
Pr0303 Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.  
Pr0304 So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.  
Pr0305 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.  
Pr0306 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.  
Pr0307 Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil.  
Pr0308 It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.  
Pr0309 Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;  
Pr0310 then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.  
Pr0311 My son, do not despise the LORD’s discipline or be weary of his reproof,  
Pr0312 for the LORD reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.  
Pr0313 Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding,  
Pr0314 for the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold.  
Pr0315 She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her.  
Pr0316 Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.  
Pr0317 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.  
Pr0318 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called blessed.  
Pr0319 The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens;  
Pr0320 by his knowledge the deeps broke open, and the clouds drop down the dew.  
Pr0321 My son, do not lose sight of these— keep sound wisdom and discretion,  
Pr0322 and they will be life for your soul and adornment for your neck.  
Pr0323 Then you will walk on your way securely, and your foot will not stumble.  
Pr0324 If you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.  
Pr0325 Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes,  
Pr0326 for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.  
Pr0327 Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.  
Pr0328 Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.  
Pr0329 Do not plan evil against your neighbor, who dwells trustingly beside you.  
Pr0330 Do not contend with a man for no reason, when he has done you no harm.  
Pr0331 Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways,  
Pr0332 for the devious person is an abomination to the LORD, but the upright are in his confidence.  
Pr0333 The LORD’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous.  
Pr0334 Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.  
Pr0335 The wise will inherit honor, but fools get disgrace.  
Pr0401 Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,  
Pr0402 for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching.  
Pr0403 When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,  
Pr0404 he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live.  
Pr0405 Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.  
Pr0406 Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.  
Pr0407 The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.  
Pr0408 Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.  
Pr0409 She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.”  
Pr0410 Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.  
Pr0411 I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.  
Pr0412 When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble.  
Pr0413 Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.  
Pr0414 Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil.  
Pr0415 Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.  
Pr0416 For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.  
Pr0417 For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.  
Pr0418 But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.  
Pr0419 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.  
Pr0420 My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.  
Pr0421 Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.  
Pr0422 For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.  
Pr0423 Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.  
Pr0424 Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.  
Pr0425 Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.  
Pr0426 Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure.  
Pr0427 Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.  
Pr0501 My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,  
Pr0502 that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.  
Pr0503 For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,  
Pr0504 but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.  
Pr0505 Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol;  
Pr0506 she does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.  
Pr0507 And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.  
Pr0508 Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,  
Pr0509 lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless,  
Pr0510 lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner,  
Pr0511 and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,  
Pr0512 and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!  
Pr0513 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.  
Pr0514 I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.”  
Pr0515 Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.  
Pr0516 Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?  
Pr0517 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.  
Pr0518 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,  
Pr0519 a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.  
Pr0520 Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?  
Pr0521 For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths.  
Pr0522 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.  
Pr0523 He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray.  
Pr0601 My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger,  
Pr0602 if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth,  
Pr0603 then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor.  
Pr0604 Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber;  
Pr0605 save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.  
Pr0606 Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.  
Pr0607 Without having any chief, officer, or ruler,  
Pr0608 she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.  
Pr0609 How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?  
Pr0610 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,  
Pr0611 and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.  
Pr0612 A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech,  
Pr0613 winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger,  
Pr0614 with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;  
Pr0615 therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.  
Pr0616 There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him:  
Pr0617 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,  
Pr0618 a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,  
Pr0619 a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.  
Pr0620 My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.  
Pr0621 Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck.  
Pr0622 When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.  
Pr0623 For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,  
Pr0624 to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.  
Pr0625 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;  
Pr0626 for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.  
Pr0627 Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned?  
Pr0628 Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched?  
Pr0629 So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.  
Pr0630 People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,  
Pr0631 but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house.  
Pr0632 He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.  
Pr0633 He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.  
Pr0634 For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.  
Pr0635 He will accept no compensation; he will refuse though you multiply gifts.  
Pr0701 My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;  
Pr0702 keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;  
Pr0703 bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.  
Pr0704 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend,  
Pr0705 to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.  
Pr0706 For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice,  
Pr0707 and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense,  
Pr0708 passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house  
Pr0709 in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.  
Pr0710 And behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.  
Pr0711 She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home;  
Pr0712 now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.  
Pr0713 She seizes him and kisses him, and with bold face she says to him,  
Pr0714 “I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;  
Pr0715 so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.  
Pr0716 I have spread my couch with coverings, colored linens from Egyptian linen;  
Pr0717 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.  
Pr0718 Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.  
Pr0719 For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey;  
Pr0720 he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home.”  
Pr0721 With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.  
Pr0722 All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast  
Pr0723 till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.  
Pr0724 And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.  
Pr0725 Let not your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths,  
Pr0726 for many a victim has she laid low, and all her slain are a mighty throng.  
Pr0727 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.  
Pr0801 Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice?  
Pr0802 On the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand;  
Pr0803 beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:  
Pr0804 “To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man.  
Pr0805 O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.  
Pr0806 Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right,  
Pr0807 for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.  
Pr0808 All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or crooked in them.  
Pr0809 They are all straight to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.  
Pr0810 Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold,  
Pr0811 for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.  
Pr0812 “I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.  
Pr0813 The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.  
Pr0814 I have counsel and sound wisdom; I have insight; I have strength.  
Pr0815 By me kings reign, and rulers decree what is just;  
Pr0816 by me princes rule, and nobles, all who govern justly.  
Pr0817 I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.  
Pr0818 Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness.  
Pr0819 My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.  
Pr0820 I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,  
Pr0821 granting an inheritance to those who love me, and filling their treasuries.  
Pr0822 “The LORD possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.  
Pr0823 Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.  
Pr0824 When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.  
Pr0825 Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth,  
Pr0826 before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.  
Pr0827 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,  
Pr0828 when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep,  
Pr0829 when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,  
Pr0830 then I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always,  
Pr0831 rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man.  
Pr0832 “And now, O sons, listen to me: blessed are those who keep my ways.  
Pr0833 Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.  
Pr0834 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.  
Pr0835 For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD,  
Pr0836 but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”  
Pr0901 Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars.  
Pr0902 She has slaughtered her beasts; she has mixed her wine; she has also set her table.  
Pr0903 She has sent out her young women to call from the highest places in the town,  
Pr0904 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” To him who lacks sense she says,  
Pr0905 “Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.  
Pr0906 Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight.”  
Pr0907 Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury.  
Pr0908 Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.  
Pr0909 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.  
Pr0910 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.  
Pr0911 For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.  
Pr0912 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.  
Pr0913 The woman Folly is loud; she is seductive and knows nothing.  
Pr0914 She sits at the door of her house; she takes a seat on the highest places of the town,  
Pr0915 calling to those who pass by, who are going straight on their way,  
Pr0916 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” And to him who lacks sense she says,  
Pr0917 “Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”  
Pr0918 But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.  
Pr1001 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.  
Pr1002 Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.  
Pr1003 The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked.  
Pr1004 A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.  
Pr1005 He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.  
Pr1006 Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.  
Pr1007 The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.  
Pr1008 The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.  
Pr1009 Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out.  
Pr1010 Whoever winks the eye causes trouble, and a babbling fool will come to ruin.  
Pr1011 The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.  
Pr1012 Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.  
Pr1013 On the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.  
Pr1014 The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.  
Pr1015 A rich man’s wealth is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.  
Pr1016 The wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.  
Pr1017 Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.  
Pr1018 The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.  
Pr1019 When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.  
Pr1020 The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; the heart of the wicked is of little worth.  
Pr1021 The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.  
Pr1022 The blessing of the LORD makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.  
Pr1023 Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.  
Pr1024 What the wicked dreads will come upon him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.  
Pr1025 When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous is established forever.  
Pr1026 Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.  
Pr1027 The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be short.  
Pr1028 The hope of the righteous brings joy, but the expectation of the wicked will perish.  
Pr1029 The way of the LORD is a stronghold to the blameless, but destruction to evildoers.  
Pr1030 The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.  
Pr1031 The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.  
Pr1032 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, what is perverse.  
Pr1101 A false balance is an abomination to the LORD, but a just weight is his delight.  
Pr1102 When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.  
Pr1103 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.  
Pr1104 Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.  
Pr1105 The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness.  
Pr1106 The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the treacherous are taken captive by their lust.  
Pr1107 When the wicked dies, his hope will perish, and the expectation of wealth perishes too.  
Pr1108 The righteous is delivered from trouble, and the wicked walks into it instead.  
Pr1109 With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.  
Pr1110 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish there are shouts of gladness.  
Pr1111 By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is overthrown.  
Pr1112 Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.  
Pr1113 Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered.  
Pr1114 Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.  
Pr1115 Whoever puts up security for a stranger will surely suffer harm, but he who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.  
Pr1116 A gracious woman gets honor, and violent men get riches.  
Pr1117 A man who is kind benefits himself, but a cruel man hurts himself.  
Pr1118 The wicked earns deceptive wages, but one who sows righteousness gets a sure reward.  
Pr1119 Whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but he who pursues evil will die.  
Pr1120 Those of crooked heart are an abomination to the LORD, but those of blameless ways are his delight.  
Pr1121 Be assured, an evil person will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.  
Pr1122 Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.  
Pr1123 The desire of the righteous ends only in good, the expectation of the wicked in wrath.  
Pr1124 One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.  
Pr1125 Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.  
Pr1126 The people curse him who holds back grain, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it.  
Pr1127 Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor, but evil comes to him who searches for it.  
Pr1128 Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.  
Pr1129 Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.  
Pr1130 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever captures souls is wise.  
Pr1131 If the righteous is repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!  
Pr1201 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.  
Pr1202 A good man obtains favor from the LORD, but a man of evil devices he condemns.  
Pr1203 No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.  
Pr1204 An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.  
Pr1205 The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.  
Pr1206 The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them.  
Pr1207 The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.  
Pr1208 A man is commended according to his good sense, but one of twisted mind is despised.  
Pr1209 Better to be lowly and have a servant than to play the great man and lack bread.  
Pr1210 Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.  
Pr1211 Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.  
Pr1212 Whoever is wicked covets the spoil of evildoers, but the root of the righteous bears fruit.  
Pr1213 An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the righteous escapes from trouble.  
Pr1214 From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man’s hand comes back to him.  
Pr1215 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.  
Pr1216 The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.  
Pr1217 Whoever speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit.  
Pr1218 There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.  
Pr1219 Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.  
Pr1220 Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan peace have joy.  
Pr1221 No ill befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.  
Pr1222 Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who act faithfully are his delight.  
Pr1223 A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims folly.  
Pr1224 The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.  
Pr1225 Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.  
Pr1226 One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.  
Pr1227 Whoever is slothful will not roast his game, but the diligent man will get precious wealth.  
Pr1228 In the path of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death.  
Pr1301 A wise son hears his father’s instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.  
Pr1302 From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.  
Pr1303 Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.  
Pr1304 The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.  
Pr1305 The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace.  
Pr1306 Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless, but sin overthrows the wicked.  
Pr1307 One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.  
Pr1308 The ransom of a man’s life is his wealth, but a poor man hears no threat.  
Pr1309 The light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.  
Pr1310 By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.  
Pr1311 Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.  
Pr1312 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.  
Pr1313 Whoever despises the word brings destruction on himself, but he who reveres the commandment will be rewarded.  
Pr1314 The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.  
Pr1315 Good sense wins favor, but the way of the treacherous is their ruin.  
Pr1316 Every prudent man acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly.  
Pr1317 A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.  
Pr1318 Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is honored.  
Pr1319 A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.  
Pr1320 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.  
Pr1321 Disaster pursues sinners, but the righteous are rewarded with good.  
Pr1322 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is laid up for the righteous.  
Pr1323 The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food, but it is swept away through injustice.  
Pr1324 Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.  
Pr1325 The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, but the belly of the wicked suffers want.  
Pr1401 The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.  
Pr1402 Whoever walks in uprightness fears the LORD, but he who is devious in his ways despises him.  
Pr1403 By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.  
Pr1404 Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.  
Pr1405 A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.  
Pr1406 A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.  
Pr1407 Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.  
Pr1408 The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.  
Pr1409 Fools mock at the guilt offering, but the upright enjoy acceptance.  
Pr1410 The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.  
Pr1411 The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.  
Pr1412 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.  
Pr1413 Even in laughter the heart may ache, and the end of joy may be grief.  
Pr1414 The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.  
Pr1415 The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps.  
Pr1416 One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless.  
Pr1417 A man of quick temper acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.  
Pr1418 The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.  
Pr1419 The evil bow down before the good, the wicked at the gates of the righteous.  
Pr1420 The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the rich has many friends.  
Pr1421 Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.  
Pr1422 Do they not go astray who devise evil? Those who devise good meet steadfast love and faithfulness.  
Pr1423 In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.  
Pr1424 The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the folly of fools brings folly.  
Pr1425 A truthful witness saves lives, but one who breathes out lies is deceitful.  
Pr1426 In the fear of the LORD one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.  
Pr1427 The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.  
Pr1428 In a multitude of people is the glory of a king, but without people a prince is ruined.  
Pr1429 Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.  
Pr1430 A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.  
Pr1431 Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.  
Pr1432 The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.  
Pr1433 Wisdom rests in the heart of a man of understanding, but it makes itself known even in the midst of fools.  
Pr1434 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.  
Pr1435 A servant who deals wisely has the king’s favor, but his wrath falls on one who acts shamefully.  
Pr1501 A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.  
Pr1502 The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.  
Pr1503 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.  
Pr1504 A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.  
Pr1505 A fool despises his father’s instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.  
Pr1506 In the house of the righteous there is much treasure, but trouble befalls the income of the wicked.  
Pr1507 The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the hearts of fools.  
Pr1508 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.  
Pr1509 The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but he loves him who pursues righteousness.  
Pr1510 There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way; whoever hates reproof will die.  
Pr1511 Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD; how much more the hearts of the children of man!  
Pr1512 A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.  
Pr1513 A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.  
Pr1514 The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.  
Pr1515 All the days of the afflicted are evil, but the cheerful of heart has a continual feast.  
Pr1516 Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it.  
Pr1517 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.  
Pr1518 A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.  
Pr1519 The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a level highway.  
Pr1520 A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.  
Pr1521 Folly is a joy to him who lacks sense, but a man of understanding walks straight ahead.  
Pr1522 Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.  
Pr1523 To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!  
Pr1524 The path of life leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.  
Pr1525 The LORD tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow’s boundaries.  
Pr1526 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD, but gracious words are pure.  
Pr1527 Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.  
Pr1528 The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.  
Pr1529 The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.  
Pr1530 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and good news refreshes the bones.  
Pr1531 The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.  
Pr1532 Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.  
Pr1533 The fear of the LORD is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.  
Pr1601 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.  
Pr1602 All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the spirit.  
Pr1603 Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.  
Pr1604 The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.  
Pr1605 Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the LORD; be assured, he will not go unpunished.  
Pr1606 By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns away from evil.  
Pr1607 When a man’s ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.  
Pr1608 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.  
Pr1609 The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps.  
Pr1610 An oracle is on the lips of a king; his mouth does not sin in judgment.  
Pr1611 A just balance and scales are the LORD’s; all the weights in the bag are his work.  
Pr1612 It is an abomination to kings to do evil, for the throne is established by righteousness.  
Pr1613 Righteous lips are the delight of a king, and he loves him who speaks what is right.  
Pr1614 A king’s wrath is a messenger of death, and a wise man will appease it.  
Pr1615 In the light of a king’s face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain.  
Pr1616 How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.  
Pr1617 The highway of the upright turns aside from evil; whoever guards his way preserves his life.  
Pr1618 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.  
Pr1619 It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.  
Pr1620 Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the LORD.  
Pr1621 The wise of heart is called discerning, and sweetness of speech increases persuasiveness.  
Pr1622 Good sense is a fountain of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.  
Pr1623 The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious and adds persuasiveness to his lips.  
Pr1624 Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.  
Pr1625 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.  
Pr1626 A worker’s appetite works for him; his mouth urges him on.  
Pr1627 A worthless man plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.  
Pr1628 A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.  
Pr1629 A man of violence entices his neighbor and leads him in a way that is not good.  
Pr1630 Whoever winks his eyes plans dishonest things; he who purses his lips brings evil to pass.  
Pr1631 Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.  
Pr1632 Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.  
Pr1633 The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.  
Pr1701 Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.  
Pr1702 A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers.  
Pr1703 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the LORD tests hearts.  
Pr1704 An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.  
Pr1705 Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.  
Pr1706 Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.  
Pr1707 Fine speech is not becoming to a fool; still less is false speech to a prince.  
Pr1708 A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of the one who gives it; wherever he turns he prospers.  
Pr1709 Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.  
Pr1710 A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.  
Pr1711 An evil man seeks only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him.  
Pr1712 Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs rather than a fool in his folly.  
Pr1713 If anyone returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.  
Pr1714 The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out.  
Pr1715 He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the LORD.  
Pr1716 Why should a fool have money in his hand to buy wisdom when he has no sense?  
Pr1717 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.  
Pr1718 One who lacks sense gives a pledge and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.  
Pr1719 Whoever loves transgression loves strife; he who makes his door high seeks destruction.  
Pr1720 A man of crooked heart does not discover good, and one with a dishonest tongue falls into calamity.  
Pr1721 He who sires a fool gets himself sorrow, and the father of a fool has no joy.  
Pr1722 A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.  
Pr1723 The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.  
Pr1724 The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.  
Pr1725 A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.  
Pr1726 To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good, nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.  
Pr1727 Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.  
Pr1728 Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.  
Pr1801 Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.  
Pr1802 A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.  
Pr1803 When wickedness comes, contempt comes also, and with dishonor comes disgrace.  
Pr1804 The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.  
Pr1805 It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.  
Pr1806 A fool’s lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.  
Pr1807 A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.  
Pr1808 The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.  
Pr1809 Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.  
Pr1810 The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.  
Pr1811 A rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and like a high wall in his imagination.  
Pr1812 Before destruction a man’s heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.  
Pr1813 If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.  
Pr1814 A man’s spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?  
Pr1815 An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.  
Pr1816 A man’s gift makes room for him and brings him before the great.  
Pr1817 The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.  
Pr1818 The lot puts an end to quarrels and decides between powerful contenders.  
Pr1819 A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.  
Pr1820 From the fruit of a man’s mouth his stomach is satisfied; he is satisfied by the yield of his lips.  
Pr1821 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.  
Pr1822 He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.  
Pr1823 The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.  
Pr1824 A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.  
Pr1901 Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.  
Pr1902 Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.  
Pr1903 When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the LORD.  
Pr1904 Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.  
Pr1905 A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.  
Pr1906 Many seek the favor of a generous man, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.  
Pr1907 All a poor man’s brothers hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but does not have them.  
Pr1908 Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good.  
Pr1909 A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish.  
Pr1910 It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes.  
Pr1911 Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.  
Pr1912 A king’s wrath is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.  
Pr1913 A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.  
Pr1914 House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.  
Pr1915 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.  
Pr1916 Whoever keeps the commandment keeps his life; he who despises his ways will die.  
Pr1917 Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will repay him for his deed.  
Pr1918 Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death.  
Pr1919 A man of great wrath will pay the penalty, for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.  
Pr1920 Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.  
Pr1921 Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.  
Pr1922 What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar.  
Pr1923 The fear of the LORD leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm.  
Pr1924 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to his mouth.  
Pr1925 Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he will gain knowledge.  
Pr1926 He who does violence to his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and reproach.  
Pr1927 Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.  
Pr1928 A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.  
Pr1929 Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and beating for the backs of fools.  
Pr2001 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.  
Pr2002 The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger forfeits his life.  
Pr2003 It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.  
Pr2004 The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.  
Pr2005 The purpose in a man’s heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.  
Pr2006 Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?  
Pr2007 The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!  
Pr2008 A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes.  
Pr2009 Who can say, “I have made my heart pure; I am clean from my sin”?  
Pr2010 Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the LORD.  
Pr2011 Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.  
Pr2012 The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has made them both.  
Pr2013 Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.  
Pr2014 “Bad, bad,” says the buyer, but when he goes away, then he boasts.  
Pr2015 There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.  
Pr2016 Take a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for foreigners.  
Pr2017 Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.  
Pr2018 Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war.  
Pr2019 Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.  
Pr2020 If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.  
Pr2021 An inheritance gained hastily in the beginning will not be blessed in the end.  
Pr2022 Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the LORD, and he will deliver you.  
Pr2023 Unequal weights are an abomination to the LORD, and false scales are not good.  
Pr2024 A man’s steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way?  
Pr2025 It is a snare to say rashly, “It is holy,” and to reflect only after making vows.  
Pr2026 A wise king winnows the wicked and drives the wheel over them.  
Pr2027 The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts.  
Pr2028 Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king, and by steadfast love his throne is upheld.  
Pr2029 The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.  
Pr2030 Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.  
Pr2101 The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will.  
Pr2102 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the heart.  
Pr2103 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.  
Pr2104 Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.  
Pr2105 The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.  
Pr2106 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.  
Pr2107 The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just.  
Pr2108 The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.  
Pr2109 It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.  
Pr2110 The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.  
Pr2111 When a scoffer is punished, the simple becomes wise; when a wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge.  
Pr2112 The Righteous One observes the house of the wicked; he throws the wicked down to ruin.  
Pr2113 Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.  
Pr2114 A gift in secret averts anger, and a concealed bribe, strong wrath.  
Pr2115 When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.  
Pr2116 One who wanders from the way of good sense will rest in the assembly of the dead.  
Pr2117 Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.  
Pr2118 The wicked is a ransom for the righteous, and the traitor for the upright.  
Pr2119 It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.  
Pr2120 Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man’s dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.  
Pr2121 Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.  
Pr2122 A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust.  
Pr2123 Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.  
Pr2124 “Scoffer” is the name of the arrogant, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.  
Pr2125 The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.  
Pr2126 All day long he craves and craves, but the righteous gives and does not hold back.  
Pr2127 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent.  
Pr2128 A false witness will perish, but the word of a man who hears will endure.  
Pr2129 A wicked man puts on a bold face, but the upright gives thought to his ways.  
Pr2130 No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the LORD.  
Pr2131 The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the LORD.  
Pr2201 A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.  
Pr2202 The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the Maker of them all.  
Pr2203 The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.  
Pr2204 The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.  
Pr2205 Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them.  
Pr2206 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.  
Pr2207 The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.  
Pr2208 Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.  
Pr2209 Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.  
Pr2210 Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.  
Pr2211 He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.  
Pr2212 The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the traitor.  
Pr2213 The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!”  
Pr2214 The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.  
Pr2215 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.  
Pr2216 Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.  
Pr2217 Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge,  
Pr2218 for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.  
Pr2219 That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to you today, even to you.  
Pr2220 Have I not written for you thirty sayings of counsel and knowledge,  
Pr2221 to make you know what is right and true, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?  
Pr2222 Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate,  
Pr2223 for the LORD will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.  
Pr2224 Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,  
Pr2225 lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.  
Pr2226 Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts.  
Pr2227 If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?  
Pr2228 Do not move the ancient landmark that your fathers have set.  
Pr2229 Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.  
Pr2301 When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you,  
Pr2302 and put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.  
Pr2303 Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.  
Pr2304 Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.  
Pr2305 When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.  
Pr2306 Do not eat the bread of a man who is stingy; do not desire his delicacies,  
Pr2307 for he is like one who is inwardly calculating. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.  
Pr2308 You will vomit up the morsels that you have eaten, and waste your pleasant words.  
Pr2309 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.  
Pr2310 Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,  
Pr2311 for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.  
Pr2312 Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.  
Pr2313 Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.  
Pr2314 If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.  
Pr2315 My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.  
Pr2316 My inmost being will exult when your lips speak what is right.  
Pr2317 Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the LORD all the day.  
Pr2318 Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.  
Pr2319 Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way.  
Pr2320 Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat,  
Pr2321 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.  
Pr2322 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.  
Pr2323 Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.  
Pr2324 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.  
Pr2325 Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.  
Pr2326 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.  
Pr2327 For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.  
Pr2328 She lies in wait like a robber and increases the traitors among mankind.  
Pr2329 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?  
Pr2330 Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine.  
Pr2331 Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.  
Pr2332 In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.  
Pr2333 Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things.  
Pr2334 You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.  
Pr2335 “They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I must have another drink.”  
Pr2401 Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them,  
Pr2402 for their hearts devise violence, and their lips talk of trouble.  
Pr2403 By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;  
Pr2404 by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.  
Pr2405 A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,  
Pr2406 for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.  
Pr2407 Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.  
Pr2408 Whoever plans to do evil will be called a schemer.  
Pr2409 The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.  
Pr2410 If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.  
Pr2411 Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.  
Pr2412 If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?  
Pr2413 My son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.  
Pr2414 Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.  
Pr2415 Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous; do no violence to his home;  
Pr2416 for the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.  
Pr2417 Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,  
Pr2418 lest the LORD see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him.  
Pr2419 Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of the wicked,  
Pr2420 for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.  
Pr2421 My son, fear the LORD and the king, and do not join with those who do otherwise,  
Pr2422 for disaster will arise suddenly from them, and who knows the ruin that will come from them both?  
Pr2423 These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.  
Pr2424 Whoever says to the wicked, “You are in the right,” will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations,  
Pr2425 but those who rebuke the wicked will have delight, and a good blessing will come upon them.  
Pr2426 Whoever gives an honest answer kisses the lips.  
Pr2427 Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.  
Pr2428 Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.  
Pr2429 Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for what he has done.”  
Pr2430 I passed by the field of a sluggard, by the vineyard of a man lacking sense,  
Pr2431 and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns; the ground was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.  
Pr2432 Then I saw and considered it; I looked and received instruction.  
Pr2433 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,  
Pr2434 and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.  
Pr2501 These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied.  
Pr2502 It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.  
Pr2503 As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the heart of kings is unsearchable.  
Pr2504 Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel;  
Pr2505 take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness.  
Pr2506 Do not put yourself forward in the king’s presence or stand in the place of the great,  
Pr2507 for it is better to be told, “Come up here,” than to be put lower in the presence of a noble. What your eyes have seen  
Pr2508 do not hastily bring into court, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?  
Pr2509 Argue your case with your neighbor himself, and do not reveal another’s secret,  
Pr2510 lest he who hears you bring shame upon you, and your ill repute have no end.  
Pr2511 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.  
Pr2512 Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear.  
Pr2513 Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a faithful messenger to those who send him; he refreshes the soul of his masters.  
Pr2514 Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.  
Pr2515 With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.  
Pr2516 If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it.  
Pr2517 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he have his fill of you and hate you.  
Pr2518 A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.  
Pr2519 Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.  
Pr2520 Whoever sings songs to a heavy heart is like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, and like vinegar on soda.  
Pr2521 If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,  
Pr2522 for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.  
Pr2523 The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.  
Pr2524 It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.  
Pr2525 Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.  
Pr2526 Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.  
Pr2527 It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one’s own glory.  
Pr2528 A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.  
Pr2601 Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.  
Pr2602 Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.  
Pr2603 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools.  
Pr2604 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself.  
Pr2605 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.  
Pr2606 Whoever sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.  
Pr2607 Like a lame man’s legs, which hang useless, is a proverb in the mouth of fools.  
Pr2608 Like one who binds the stone in the sling is one who gives honor to a fool.  
Pr2609 Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of fools.  
Pr2610 Like an archer who wounds everyone is one who hires a passing fool or drunkard.  
Pr2611 Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.  
Pr2612 Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.  
Pr2613 The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! There is a lion in the streets!”  
Pr2614 As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed.  
Pr2615 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; it wears him out to bring it back to his mouth.  
Pr2616 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly.  
Pr2617 Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.  
Pr2618 Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death  
Pr2619 is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “I am only joking!”  
Pr2620 For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.  
Pr2621 As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.  
Pr2622 The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.  
Pr2623 Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart.  
Pr2624 Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart;  
Pr2625 when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart;  
Pr2626 though his hatred be covered with deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.  
Pr2627 Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling.  
Pr2628 A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.  
Pr2701 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.  
Pr2702 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.  
Pr2703 A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.  
Pr2704 Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?  
Pr2705 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.  
Pr2706 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.  
Pr2707 One who is full loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet.  
Pr2708 Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.  
Pr2709 Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.  
Pr2710 Do not forsake your friend and your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.  
Pr2711 Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.  
Pr2712 The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.  
Pr2713 Take a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.  
Pr2714 Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.  
Pr2715 A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;  
Pr2716 to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one’s right hand.  
Pr2717 Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.  
Pr2718 Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored.  
Pr2719 As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.  
Pr2720 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, and never satisfied are the eyes of man.  
Pr2721 The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is tested by his praise.  
Pr2722 Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his folly will not depart from him.  
Pr2723 Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds,  
Pr2724 for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations?  
Pr2725 When the grass is gone and the new growth appears and the vegetation of the mountains is gathered,  
Pr2726 the lambs will provide your clothing, and the goats the price of a field.  
Pr2727 There will be enough goats’ milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your girls.  
Pr2801 The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.  
Pr2802 When a land transgresses, it has many rulers, but with a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability will long continue.  
Pr2803 A poor man who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.  
Pr2804 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them.  
Pr2805 Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it completely.  
Pr2806 Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.  
Pr2807 The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.  
Pr2808 Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor.  
Pr2809 If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.  
Pr2810 Whoever misleads the upright into an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will have a goodly inheritance.  
Pr2811 A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has understanding will find him out.  
Pr2812 When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, people hide themselves.  
Pr2813 Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.  
Pr2814 Blessed is the one who fears the LORD always, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity.  
Pr2815 Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.  
Pr2816 A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, but he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.  
Pr2817 If one is burdened with the blood of another, he will be a fugitive until death; let no one help him.  
Pr2818 Whoever walks in integrity will be delivered, but he who is crooked in his ways will suddenly fall.  
Pr2819 Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.  
Pr2820 A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.  
Pr2821 To show partiality is not good, but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong.  
Pr2822 A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him.  
Pr2823 Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.  
Pr2824 Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, “That is no transgression,” is a companion to a man who destroys.  
Pr2825 A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the LORD will be enriched.  
Pr2826 Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.  
Pr2827 Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.  
Pr2828 When the wicked rise, people hide themselves, but when they perish, the righteous increase.  
Pr2901 He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.  
Pr2902 When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.  
Pr2903 He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.  
Pr2904 By justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down.  
Pr2905 A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.  
Pr2906 An evil man is ensnared in his transgression, but a righteous man sings and rejoices.  
Pr2907 A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.  
Pr2908 Scoffers set a city aflame, but the wise turn away wrath.  
Pr2909 If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet.  
Pr2910 Bloodthirsty men hate one who is blameless and seek the life of the upright.  
Pr2911 A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.  
Pr2912 If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.  
Pr2913 The poor man and the oppressor meet together; the LORD gives light to the eyes of both.  
Pr2914 If a king faithfully judges the poor, his throne will be established forever.  
Pr2915 The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.  
Pr2916 When the wicked increase, transgression increases, but the righteous will look upon their downfall.  
Pr2917 Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.  
Pr2918 Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.  
Pr2919 By mere words a servant is not disciplined, for though he understands, he will not respond.  
Pr2920 Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.  
Pr2921 Whoever pampers his servant from childhood will in the end find him his heir.  
Pr2922 A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression.  
Pr2923 One’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.  
Pr2924 The partner of a thief hates his own life; he hears the curse, but discloses nothing.  
Pr2925 The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is safe.  
Pr2926 Many seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the LORD that a man gets justice.  
Pr2927 An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, but one whose way is straight is an abomination to the wicked.  
Pr3001 The words of Agur son of Jakeh. The oracle. The man declares, I am weary, O God; I am weary, O God, and worn out.  
Pr3002 Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.  
Pr3003 I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.  
Pr3004 Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name? Surely you know!  
Pr3005 Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.  
Pr3006 Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar.  
Pr3007 Two things I ask of you; deny them not to me before I die:  
Pr3008 Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,  
Pr3009 lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the LORD?” or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.  
Pr3010 Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.  
Pr3011 There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.  
Pr3012 There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth.  
Pr3013 There are those—how lofty are their eyes, how high their eyelids lift!  
Pr3014 There are those whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mankind.  
Pr3015 The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, “Enough”:  
Pr3016 Sheol, the barren womb, the land never satisfied with water, and the fire that never says, “Enough.”  
Pr3017 The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.  
Pr3018 Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand:  
Pr3019 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a virgin.  
Pr3020 This is the way of an adulteress: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I have done no wrong.”  
Pr3021 Under three things the earth trembles; under four it cannot bear up:  
Pr3022 a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food;  
Pr3023 an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress.  
Pr3024 Four things on earth are small, but they are exceedingly wise:  
Pr3025 the ants are a people not strong, yet they provide their food in the summer;  
Pr3026 the rock badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the cliffs;  
Pr3027 the locusts have no king, yet all of them march in rank;  
Pr3028 the lizard you can take in your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces.  
Pr3029 Three things are stately in their tread; four are stately in their stride:  
Pr3030 the lion, which is mightiest among beasts and does not turn back before any;  
Pr3031 the strutting rooster, the he-goat, and a king whose army is with him.  
Pr3032 If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.  
Pr3033 For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.  
Pr3101 The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him:  
Pr3102 What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows?  
Pr3103 Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings.  
Pr3104 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink,  
Pr3105 lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.  
Pr3106 Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;  
Pr3107 let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.  
Pr3108 Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute.  
Pr3109 Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.  
Pr3110 An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.  
Pr3111 The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.  
Pr3112 She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.  
Pr3113 She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands.  
Pr3114 She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar.  
Pr3115 She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens.  
Pr3116 She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.  
Pr3117 She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong.  
Pr3118 She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night.  
Pr3119 She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.  
Pr3120 She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.  
Pr3121 She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her household are clothed in scarlet.  
Pr3122 She makes bed coverings for herself; her clothing is fine linen and purple.  
Pr3123 Her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land.  
Pr3124 She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchant.  
Pr3125 Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.  
Pr3126 She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.  
Pr3127 She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.  
Pr3128 Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:  
Pr3129 “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.”  
Pr3130 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.  
Pr3131 Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.  
Ec0101 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.  
Ec0102 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.  
Ec0103 What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?  
Ec0104 A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.  
Ec0105 The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.  
Ec0106 The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.  
Ec0107 All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.  
Ec0108 All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.  
Ec0109 What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.  
Ec0110 Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already in the ages before us.  
Ec0111 There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after.  
Ec0112 I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.  
Ec0113 And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.  
Ec0114 I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.  
Ec0115 What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.  
Ec0116 I said in my heart, “I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”  
Ec0117 And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.  
Ec0118 For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.  
Ec0201 I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity.  
Ec0202 I said of laughter, “It is mad,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?”  
Ec0203 I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine—my heart still guiding me with wisdom—and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.  
Ec0204 I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.  
Ec0205 I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.  
Ec0206 I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees.  
Ec0207 I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house. I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem.  
Ec0208 I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, the delight of the sons of man.  
Ec0209 So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.  
Ec0210 And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.  
Ec0211 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.  
Ec0212 So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.  
Ec0213 Then I saw that there is more gain in wisdom than in folly, as there is more gain in light than in darkness.  
Ec0214 The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.  
Ec0215 Then I said in my heart, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?” And I said in my heart that this also is vanity.  
Ec0216 For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!  
Ec0217 So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after wind.  
Ec0218 I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me,  
Ec0219 and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.  
Ec0220 So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors under the sun,  
Ec0221 because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.  
Ec0222 What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?  
Ec0223 For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.  
Ec0224 There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God,  
Ec0225 for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?  
Ec0226 For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.  
Ec0301 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:  
Ec0302 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;  
Ec0303 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;  
Ec0304 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;  
Ec0305 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;  
Ec0306 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;  
Ec0307 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;  
Ec0308 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.  
Ec0309 What gain has the worker from his toil?  
Ec0310 I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.  
Ec0311 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.  
Ec0312 I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live;  
Ec0313 also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.  
Ec0314 I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.  
Ec0315 That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.  
Ec0316 Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.  
Ec0317 I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work.  
Ec0318 I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts.  
Ec0319 For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity.  
Ec0320 All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return.  
Ec0321 Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?  
Ec0322 So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?  
Ec0401 Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.  
Ec0402 And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive.  
Ec0403 But better than both is he who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.  
Ec0404 Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.  
Ec0405 The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh.  
Ec0406 Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.  
Ec0407 Again, I saw vanity under the sun:  
Ec0408 one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.  
Ec0409 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.  
Ec0410 For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!  
Ec0411 Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone?  
Ec0412 And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.  
Ec0413 Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice.  
Ec0414 For he went from prison to the throne, though in his own kingdom he had been born poor.  
Ec0415 I saw all the living who move about under the sun, along with that youth who was to stand in the king’s place.  
Ec0416 There was no end of all the people, all of whom he led. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.  
Ec0501 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil.  
Ec0502 Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few.  
Ec0503 For a dream comes with much business, and a fool’s voice with many words.  
Ec0504 When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.  
Ec0505 It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.  
Ec0506 Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?  
Ec0507 For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.  
Ec0508 If you see in a province the oppression of the poor and the violation of justice and righteousness, do not be amazed at the matter, for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.  
Ec0509 But this is gain for a land in every way: a king committed to cultivated fields.  
Ec0510 He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.  
Ec0511 When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?  
Ec0512 Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.  
Ec0513 There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,  
Ec0514 and those riches were lost in a bad venture. And he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.  
Ec0515 As he came from his mother’s womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand.  
Ec0516 This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what gain is there to him who toils for the wind?  
Ec0517 Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness in much vexation and sickness and anger.  
Ec0518 Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot.  
Ec0519 Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God.  
Ec0520 For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.  
Ec0601 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind:  
Ec0602 a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous evil.  
Ec0603 If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life’s good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.  
Ec0604 For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered.  
Ec0605 Moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds rest rather than he.  
Ec0606 Even though he should live a thousand years twice over, yet enjoy no good—do not all go to the one place?  
Ec0607 All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.  
Ec0608 For what advantage has the wise man over the fool? And what does the poor man have who knows how to conduct himself before the living?  
Ec0609 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the appetite: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.  
Ec0610 Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he.  
Ec0611 The more words, the more vanity, and what is the advantage to man?  
Ec0612 For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?  
Ec0701 A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of birth.  
Ec0702 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart.  
Ec0703 Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.  
Ec0704 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.  
Ec0705 It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.  
Ec0706 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.  
Ec0707 Surely oppression drives the wise into madness, and a bribe corrupts the heart.  
Ec0708 Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.  
Ec0709 Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.  
Ec0710 Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.  
Ec0711 Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.  
Ec0712 For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.  
Ec0713 Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked?  
Ec0714 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.  
Ec0715 In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his evildoing.  
Ec0716 Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?  
Ec0717 Be not overly wicked, neither be a fool. Why should you die before your time?  
Ec0718 It is good that you should take hold of this, and from that withhold not your hand, for the one who fears God shall come out from both of them.  
Ec0719 Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.  
Ec0720 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.  
Ec0721 Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you.  
Ec0722 Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others.  
Ec0723 All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me.  
Ec0724 That which has been is far off, and deep, very deep; who can find it out?  
Ec0725 I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.  
Ec0726 And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.  
Ec0727 Behold, this is what I found, says the Preacher, while adding one thing to another to find the scheme of things—  
Ec0728 which my soul has sought repeatedly, but I have not found. One man among a thousand I found, but a woman among all these I have not found.  
Ec0729 See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.  
Ec0801 Who is like the wise? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.  
Ec0802 I say: Keep the king’s command, because of God’s oath to him.  
Ec0803 Be not hasty to go from his presence. Do not take your stand in an evil cause, for he does whatever he pleases.  
Ec0804 For the word of the king is supreme, and who may say to him, “What are you doing?”  
Ec0805 Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way.  
Ec0806 For there is a time and a way for everything, although man’s trouble lies heavy on him.  
Ec0807 For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?  
Ec0808 No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.  
Ec0809 All this I observed while applying my heart to all that is done under the sun, when man had power over man to his hurt.  
Ec0810 Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of the holy place and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity.  
Ec0811 Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.  
Ec0812 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I know that it will be well with those who fear God, because they fear before him.  
Ec0813 But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.  
Ec0814 There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.  
Ec0815 And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.  
Ec0816 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one’s eyes see sleep,  
Ec0817 then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.  
Ec0901 But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him.  
Ec0902 It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil, to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.  
Ec0903 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.  
Ec0904 But he who is joined with all the living has hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.  
Ec0905 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.  
Ec0906 Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.  
Ec0907 Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.  
Ec0908 Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head.  
Ec0909 Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.  
Ec0910 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.  
Ec0911 Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.  
Ec0912 For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.  
Ec0913 I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.  
Ec0914 There was a little city with few men in it, and a great king came against it and besieged it, building great siegeworks against it.  
Ec0915 But there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.  
Ec0916 But I say that wisdom is better than might, though the poor man’s wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.  
Ec0917 The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.  
Ec0918 Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.  
Ec1001 Dead flies make the perfumer’s ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.  
Ec1002 A wise man’s heart inclines him to the right, but a fool’s heart to the left.  
Ec1003 Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.  
Ec1004 If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.  
Ec1005 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler:  
Ec1006 folly is set in many high places, and the rich sit in a low place.  
Ec1007 I have seen slaves on horses, and princes walking on the ground like slaves.  
Ec1008 He who digs a pit will fall into it, and a serpent will bite him who breaks through a wall.  
Ec1009 He who quarries stones is hurt by them, and he who splits logs is endangered by them.  
Ec1010 If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed.  
Ec1011 If the serpent bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage to the charmer.  
Ec1012 The words of a wise man’s mouth win him favor, but the lips of a fool consume him.  
Ec1013 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness, and the end of his talk is evil madness.  
Ec1014 A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?  
Ec1015 The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.  
Ec1016 Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!  
Ec1017 Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of the nobility, and your princes feast at the proper time, for strength, and not for drunkenness!  
Ec1018 Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through indolence the house leaks.  
Ec1019 Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.  
Ec1020 Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king, nor in your bedroom curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.  
Ec1101 Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.  
Ec1102 Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.  
Ec1103 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth, and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.  
Ec1104 He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.  
Ec1105 As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.  
Ec1106 In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.  
Ec1107 Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.  
Ec1108 So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.  
Ec1109 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.  
Ec1110 Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.  
Ec1201 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;  
Ec1202 before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain,  
Ec1203 in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed,  
Ec1204 and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low—  
Ec1205 they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets—  
Ec1206 before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,  
Ec1207 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.  
Ec1208 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity.  
Ec1209 Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs with great care.  
Ec1210 The Preacher sought to find words of delight, and uprightly he wrote words of truth.  
Ec1211 The words of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings; they are given by one Shepherd.  
Ec1212 My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.  
Ec1213 The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.  
Ec1214 For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.  
Ss0101 The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.  
Ss0102 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine;  
Ss0103 your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you.  
Ss0104 Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. Others We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.  
Ss0105 I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.  
Ss0106 Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept!  
Ss0107 Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?  
Ss0108 If you do not know, O most beautiful among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.  
Ss0109 I compare you, my love, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.  
Ss0110 Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.  
Ss0111 We will make for you ornaments of gold, studded with silver.  
Ss0112 While the king was on his couch, my nard gave forth its fragrance.  
Ss0113 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh that lies between my breasts.  
Ss0114 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Engedi.  
Ss0115 Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves.  
Ss0116 Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful. Our couch is green;  
Ss0117 the beams of our house are cedar; our rafters are pine.  
Ss0201 I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.  
Ss0202 As a lily among brambles, so is my love among the young women.  
Ss0203 As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.  
Ss0204 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.  
Ss0205 Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.  
Ss0206 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me!  
Ss0207 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.  
Ss0208 The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.  
Ss0209 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, looking through the lattice.  
Ss0210 My beloved speaks and says to me: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away,  
Ss0211 for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.  
Ss0212 The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.  
Ss0213 The fig tree ripens its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.  
Ss0214 O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the crannies of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.  
Ss0215 Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom.”  
Ss0216 My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.  
Ss0217 Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a young stag on cleft mountains.  
Ss0301 On my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but found him not.  
Ss0302 I will rise now and go about the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but found him not.  
Ss0303 The watchmen found me as they went about in the city. “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”  
Ss0304 Scarcely had I passed them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me.  
Ss0305 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.  
Ss0306 What is that coming up from the wilderness like columns of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of a merchant?  
Ss0307 Behold, it is the litter of Solomon! Around it are sixty mighty men, some of the mighty men of Israel,  
Ss0308 all of them wearing swords and expert in war, each with his sword at his thigh, against terror by night.  
Ss0309 King Solomon made himself a carriage from the wood of Lebanon.  
Ss0310 He made its posts of silver, its back of gold, its seat of purple; its interior was inlaid with love by the daughters of Jerusalem.  
Ss0311 Go out, O daughters of Zion, and look upon King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day of the gladness of his heart.  
Ss0401 Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead.  
Ss0402 Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and not one among them has lost its young.  
Ss0403 Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.  
Ss0404 Your neck is like the tower of David, built in rows of stone; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.  
Ss0405 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that graze among the lilies.  
Ss0406 Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go away to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense.  
Ss0407 You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.  
Ss0408 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride; come with me from Lebanon. Depart from the peak of Amana, from the peak of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from the mountains of leopards.  
Ss0409 You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.  
Ss0410 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!  
Ss0411 Your lips drip nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your tongue; the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.  
Ss0412 A garden locked is my sister, my bride, a spring locked, a fountain sealed.  
Ss0413 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard,  
Ss0414 nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all choice spices—  
Ss0415 a garden fountain, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.  
Ss0416 Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its spices flow. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.  
Ss0501 I came to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gathered my myrrh with my spice, I ate my honeycomb with my honey, I drank my wine with my milk. Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love!  
Ss0502 I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.”  
Ss0503 I had put off my garment; how could I put it on? I had bathed my feet; how could I soil them?  
Ss0504 My beloved put his hand to the latch, and my heart was thrilled within me.  
Ss0505 I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the bolt.  
Ss0506 I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.  
Ss0507 The watchmen found me as they went about in the city; they beat me, they bruised me, they took away my veil, those watchmen of the walls.  
Ss0508 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.  
Ss0509 What is your beloved more than another beloved, O most beautiful among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us?  
Ss0510 My beloved is radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.  
Ss0511 His head is the finest gold; his locks are wavy, black as a raven.  
Ss0512 His eyes are like doves beside streams of water, bathed in milk, sitting beside a full pool.  
Ss0513 His cheeks are like beds of spices, mounds of sweet-smelling herbs. His lips are lilies, dripping liquid myrrh.  
Ss0514 His arms are rods of gold, set with jewels. His body is polished ivory, bedecked with sapphires.  
Ss0515 His legs are alabaster columns, set on bases of gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.  
Ss0516 His mouth is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.  
Ss0601 Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?  
Ss0602 My beloved has gone down to his garden to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens and to gather lilies.  
Ss0603 I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies.  
Ss0604 You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.  
Ss0605 Turn away your eyes from me, for they overwhelm me— Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead.  
Ss0606 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes that have come up from the washing; all of them bear twins; not one among them has lost its young.  
Ss0607 Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.  
Ss0608 There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.  
Ss0609 My dove, my perfect one, is the only one, the only one of her mother, pure to her who bore her. The young women saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.  
Ss0610 “Who is this who looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, awesome as an army with banners?”  
Ss0611 I went down to the nut orchard to look at the blossoms of the valley, to see whether the vines had budded, whether the pomegranates were in bloom.  
Ss0612 Before I was aware, my desire set me among the chariots of my kinsman, a prince.  
Ss0613 Return, return, O Shulammite, return, return, that we may look upon you. He Why should you look upon the Shulammite, as upon a dance before two armies?  
Ss0701 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.  
Ss0702 Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.  
Ss0703 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.  
Ss0704 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, which looks toward Damascus.  
Ss0705 Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.  
Ss0706 How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights!  
Ss0707 Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.  
Ss0708 I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,  
Ss0709 and your mouth like the best wine. She It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth.  
Ss0710 I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me.  
Ss0711 Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages;  
Ss0712 let us go out early to the vineyards and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.  
Ss0713 The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and beside our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.  
Ss0801 Oh that you were like a brother to me who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outside, I would kiss you, and none would despise me.  
Ss0802 I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother— she who used to teach me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranate.  
Ss0803 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me!  
Ss0804 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.  
Ss0805 Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother was in labor with you; there she who bore you was in labor.  
Ss0806 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD.  
Ss0807 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.  
Ss0808 We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for?  
Ss0809 If she is a wall, we will build on her a battlement of silver, but if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.  
Ss0810 I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who finds peace.  
Ss0811 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.  
Ss0812 My vineyard, my very own, is before me; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.  
Ss0813 O you who dwell in the gardens, with companions listening for your voice; let me hear it.  
Ss0814 Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.  
Is0101 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.  
Is0102 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the LORD has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.  
Is0103 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”  
Is0104 Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.  
Is0105 Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.  
Is0106 From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.  
Is0107 Your country lies desolate; your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence foreigners devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.  
Is0108 And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.  
Is0109 If the LORD of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we should have been like Sodom, and become like Gomorrah.  
Is0110 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!  
Is0111 “What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.  
Is0112 “When you come to appear before me, who has required of you this trampling of my courts?  
Is0113 Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations— I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly.  
Is0114 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.  
Is0115 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.  
Is0116 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,  
Is0117 learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.  
Is0118 “Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.  
Is0119 If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;  
Is0120 but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”  
Is0121 How the faithful city has become a whore, she who was full of justice! Righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.  
Is0122 Your silver has become dross, your best wine mixed with water.  
Is0123 Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow’s cause does not come to them.  
Is0124 Therefore the Lord declares, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: “Ah, I will get relief from my enemies and avenge myself on my foes.  
Is0125 I will turn my hand against you and will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.  
Is0126 And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.”  
Is0127 Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteousness.  
Is0128 But rebels and sinners shall be broken together, and those who forsake the LORD shall be consumed.  
Is0129 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks that you desired; and you shall blush for the gardens that you have chosen.  
Is0130 For you shall be like an oak whose leaf withers, and like a garden without water.  
Is0131 And the strong shall become tinder, and his work a spark, and both of them shall burn together, with none to quench them.  
Is0201 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.  
Is0202 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it,  
Is0203 and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.  
Is0204 He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.  
Is0205 O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD.  
Is0206 For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.  
Is0207 Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots.  
Is0208 Their land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their own fingers have made.  
Is0209 So man is humbled, and each one is brought low— do not forgive them!  
Is0210 Enter into the rock and hide in the dust from before the terror of the LORD, and from the splendor of his majesty.  
Is0211 The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.  
Is0212 For the LORD of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;  
Is0213 against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan;  
Is0214 against all the lofty mountains, and against all the uplifted hills;  
Is0215 against every high tower, and against every fortified wall;  
Is0216 against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the beautiful craft.  
Is0217 And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.  
Is0218 And the idols shall utterly pass away.  
Is0219 And people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.  
Is0220 In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,  
Is0221 to enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror of the LORD, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.  
Is0222 Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?  
Is0301 For behold, the Lord GOD of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water;  
Is0302 the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder,  
Is0303 the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms.  
Is0304 And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them.  
Is0305 And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable.  
Is0306 For a man will take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying: “You have a cloak; you shall be our leader, and this heap of ruins shall be under your rule”;  
Is0307 in that day he will speak out, saying: “I will not be a healer; in my house there is neither bread nor cloak; you shall not make me leader of the people.”  
Is0308 For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the LORD, defying his glorious presence.  
Is0309 For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.  
Is0310 Tell the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.  
Is0311 Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.  
Is0312 My people—infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths.  
Is0313 The LORD has taken his place to contend; he stands to judge peoples.  
Is0314 The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders and princes of his people: “It is you who have devoured the vineyard, the spoil of the poor is in your houses.  
Is0315 What do you mean by crushing my people, by grinding the face of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of hosts.  
Is0316 The LORD said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet,  
Is0317 therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts.  
Is0318 In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents;  
Is0319 the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves;  
Is0320 the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets;  
Is0321 the signet rings and nose rings;  
Is0322 the festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags;  
Is0323 the mirrors, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils.  
Is0324 Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a skirt of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.  
Is0325 Your men shall fall by the sword and your mighty men in battle.  
Is0326 And her gates shall lament and mourn; empty, she shall sit on the ground.  
Is0401 And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach.”  
Is0402 In that day the branch of the LORD shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel.  
Is0403 And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem,  
Is0404 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem from its midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning.  
Is0405 Then the LORD will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, and smoke and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy.  
Is0406 There will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.  
Is0501 Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.  
Is0502 He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.  
Is0503 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.  
Is0504 What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?  
Is0505 And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down.  
Is0506 I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.  
Is0507 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!  
Is0508 Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.  
Is0509 The LORD of hosts has sworn in my hearing: “Surely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.  
Is0510 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”  
Is0511 Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who tarry late into the evening as wine inflames them!  
Is0512 They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts, but they do not regard the deeds of the LORD, or see the work of his hands.  
Is0513 Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; their honored men go hungry, and their multitude is parched with thirst.  
Is0514 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth beyond measure, and the nobility of Jerusalem and her multitude will go down, her revelers and he who exults in her.  
Is0515 Man is humbled, and each one is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are brought low.  
Is0516 But the LORD of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.  
Is0517 Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture, and nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.  
Is0518 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, who draw sin as with cart ropes,  
Is0519 who say: “Let him be quick, let him speed his work that we may see it; let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near, and let it come, that we may know it!”  
Is0520 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!  
Is0521 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!  
Is0522 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink,  
Is0523 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!  
Is0524 Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.  
Is0525 Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them, and the mountains quaked; and their corpses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.  
Is0526 He will raise a signal for nations far away, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!  
Is0527 None is weary, none stumbles, none slumbers or sleeps, not a waistband is loose, not a sandal strap broken;  
Is0528 their arrows are sharp, all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs seem like flint, and their wheels like the whirlwind.  
Is0529 Their roaring is like a lion, like young lions they roar; they growl and seize their prey; they carry it off, and none can rescue.  
Is0530 They will growl over it on that day, like the growling of the sea. And if one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened by its clouds.  
Is0601 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.  
Is0602 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.  
Is0603 And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”  
Is0604 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.  
Is0605 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!”  
Is0606 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.  
Is0607 And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”  
Is0608 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here I am! Send me.”  
Is0609 And he said, “Go, and say to this people: “‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’  
Is0610 Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”  
Is0611 Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” And he said: “Until cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is a desolate waste,  
Is0612 and the LORD removes people far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.  
Is0613 And though a tenth remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak, whose stump remains when it is felled.” The holy seed is its stump.  
Is0701 In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it.  
Is0702 When the house of David was told, “Syria is in league with Ephraim,” the heart of Ahaz and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.  
Is0703 And the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer’s Field.  
Is0704 And say to him, ‘Be careful, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah.  
Is0705 Because Syria, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying,  
Is0706 “Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,”  
Is0707 thus says the Lord GOD: “‘It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass.  
Is0708 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.  
Is0709 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.’”  
Is0710 Again the LORD spoke to Ahaz:  
Is0711 “Ask a sign of the LORD your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.”  
Is0712 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, and I will not put the LORD to the test.”  
Is0713 And he said, “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also?  
Is0714 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.  
Is0715 He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.  
Is0716 For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted.  
Is0717 The LORD will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father’s house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria!”  
Is0718 In that day the LORD will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.  
Is0719 And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures.  
Is0720 In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired beyond the River—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.  
Is0721 In that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep,  
Is0722 and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land will eat curds and honey.  
Is0723 In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns.  
Is0724 With bow and arrows a man will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns.  
Is0725 And as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear of briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.  
Is0801 Then the LORD said to me, “Take a large tablet and write on it in common characters, ‘Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.’  
Is0802 And I will get reliable witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me.”  
Is0803 And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the LORD said to me, “Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz;  
Is0804 for before the boy knows how to cry ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”  
Is0805 The LORD spoke to me again:  
Is0806 “Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over Rezin and the son of Remaliah,  
Is0807 therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks,  
Is0808 and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.”  
Is0809 Be broken, you peoples, and be shattered; give ear, all you far countries; strap on your armor and be shattered; strap on your armor and be shattered.  
Is0810 Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.  
Is0811 For the LORD spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying:  
Is0812 “Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread.  
Is0813 But the LORD of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.  
Is0814 And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.  
Is0815 And many shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.”  
Is0816 Bind up the testimony; seal the teaching among my disciples.  
Is0817 I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.  
Is0818 Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.  
Is0819 And when they say to you, “Inquire of the mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter,” should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of the dead on behalf of the living?  
Is0820 To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.  
Is0821 They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward.  
Is0822 And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into thick darkness.  
Is0901 But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the latter time he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.  
Is0902 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.  
Is0903 You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil.  
Is0904 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.  
Is0905 For every boot of the tramping warrior in battle tumult and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.  
Is0906 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.  
Is0907 Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.  
Is0908 The Lord has sent a word against Jacob, and it will fall on Israel;  
Is0909 and all the people will know, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:  
Is0910 “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stones; the sycamores have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”  
Is0911 But the LORD raises the adversaries of Rezin against him, and stirs up his enemies.  
Is0912 The Syrians on the east and the Philistines on the west devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.  
Is0913 The people did not turn to him who struck them, nor inquire of the LORD of hosts.  
Is0914 So the LORD cut off from Israel head and tail, palm branch and reed in one day—  
Is0915 the elder and honored man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;  
Is0916 for those who guide this people have been leading them astray, and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.  
Is0917 Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.  
Is0918 For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.  
Is0919 Through the wrath of the LORD of hosts the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares another.  
Is0920 They slice meat on the right, but are still hungry, and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied; each devours the flesh of his own arm,  
Is0921 Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim devours Manasseh; together they are against Judah. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.  
Is1001 Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression,  
Is1002 to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!  
Is1003 What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth?  
Is1004 Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.  
Is1005 Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!  
Is1006 Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.  
Is1007 But he does not so intend, and his heart does not so think; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few;  
Is1008 for he says: “Are not my commanders all kings?  
Is1009 Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?  
Is1010 As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,  
Is1011 shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her images?”  
Is1012 When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.  
Is1013 For he says: “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I remove the boundaries of peoples, and plunder their treasures; like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.  
Is1014 My hand has found like a nest the wealth of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken, so I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved a wing or opened the mouth or chirped.”  
Is1015 Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!  
Is1016 Therefore the Lord GOD of hosts will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled, like the burning of fire.  
Is1017 The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.  
Is1018 The glory of his forest and of his fruitful land the LORD will destroy, both soul and body, and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.  
Is1019 The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can write them down.  
Is1020 In that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean on him who struck them, but will lean on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.  
Is1021 A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.  
Is1022 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.  
Is1023 For the Lord GOD of hosts will make a full end, as decreed, in the midst of all the earth.  
Is1024 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: “O my people, who dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did.  
Is1025 For in a very little while my fury will come to an end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.  
Is1026 And the LORD of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt.  
Is1027 And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.”  
Is1028 He has come to Aiath; he has passed through Migron; at Michmash he stores his baggage;  
Is1029 they have crossed over the pass; at Geba they lodge for the night; Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled.  
Is1030 Cry aloud, O daughter of Gallim! Give attention, O Laishah! O poor Anathoth!  
Is1031 Madmenah is in flight; the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.  
Is1032 This very day he will halt at Nob; he will shake his fist at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.  
Is1033 Behold, the Lord GOD of hosts will lop the boughs with terrifying power; the great in height will be hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low.  
Is1034 He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One.  
Is1101 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.  
Is1102 And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.  
Is1103 And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear,  
Is1104 but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.  
Is1105 Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins.  
Is1106 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them.  
Is1107 The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.  
Is1108 The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den.  
Is1109 They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.  
Is1110 In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples—of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.  
Is1111 In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.  
Is1112 He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.  
Is1113 The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart, and those who harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.  
Is1114 But they shall swoop down on the shoulder of the Philistines in the west, and together they shall plunder the people of the east. They shall put out their hand against Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites shall obey them.  
Is1115 And the LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt, and will wave his hand over the River with his scorching breath, and strike it into seven channels, and he will lead people across in sandals.  
Is1116 And there will be a highway from Assyria for the remnant that remains of his people, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.  
Is1201 You will say in that day: “I will give thanks to you, O LORD, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, that you might comfort me.  
Is1202 “Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”  
Is1203 With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.  
Is1204 And you will say in that day: “Give thanks to the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted.  
Is1205 “Sing praises to the LORD, for he has done gloriously; let this be made known in all the earth.  
Is1206 Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.”  
Is1301 The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.  
Is1302 On a bare hill raise a signal; cry aloud to them; wave the hand for them to enter the gates of the nobles.  
Is1303 I myself have commanded my consecrated ones, and have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger, my proudly exulting ones.  
Is1304 The sound of a tumult is on the mountains as of a great multitude! The sound of an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering a host for battle.  
Is1305 They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, the LORD and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.  
Is1306 Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!  
Is1307 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every human heart will melt.  
Is1308 They will be dismayed: pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.  
Is1309 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it.  
Is1310 For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.  
Is1311 I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.  
Is1312 I will make people more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir.  
Is1313 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of the LORD of hosts in the day of his fierce anger.  
Is1314 And like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with none to gather them, each will turn to his own people, and each will flee to his own land.  
Is1315 Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.  
Is1316 Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished.  
Is1317 Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold.  
Is1318 Their bows will slaughter the young men; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not pity children.  
Is1319 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.  
Is1320 It will never be inhabited or lived in for all generations; no Arab will pitch his tent there; no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.  
Is1321 But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there wild goats will dance.  
Is1322 Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close at hand and its days will not be prolonged.  
Is1401 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.  
Is1402 And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the LORD’s land as male and female slaves. They will take captive those who were their captors, and rule over those who oppressed them.  
Is1403 When the LORD has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve,  
Is1404 you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: “How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!  
Is1405 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers,  
Is1406 that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.  
Is1407 The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing.  
Is1408 The cypresses rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, ‘Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.’  
Is1409 Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.  
Is1410 All of them will answer and say to you: ‘You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us!’  
Is1411 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are laid as a bed beneath you, and worms are your covers.  
Is1412 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!  
Is1413 You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north;  
Is1414 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’  
Is1415 But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.  
Is1416 Those who see you will stare at you and ponder over you: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,  
Is1417 who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home?’  
Is1418 All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;  
Is1419 but you are cast out, away from your grave, like a loathed branch, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a dead body trampled underfoot.  
Is1420 You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people. “May the offspring of evildoers nevermore be named!  
Is1421 Prepare slaughter for his sons because of the guilt of their fathers, lest they rise and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.”  
Is1422 “I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, descendants and posterity,” declares the LORD.  
Is1423 “And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of hosts.  
Is1424 The LORD of hosts has sworn: “As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand,  
Is1425 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains trample him underfoot; and his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden from their shoulder.”  
Is1426 This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.  
Is1427 For the LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?  
Is1428 In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle:  
Is1429 Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the serpent’s root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.  
Is1430 And the firstborn of the poor will graze, and the needy lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant it will slay.  
Is1431 Wail, O gate; cry out, O city; melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.  
Is1432 What will one answer the messengers of the nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.”  
Is1501 An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone; because Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone.  
Is1502 He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness; every beard is shorn;  
Is1503 in the streets they wear sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares everyone wails and melts in tears.  
Is1504 Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voice is heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembles.  
Is1505 My heart cries out for Moab; her fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction;  
Is1506 the waters of Nimrim are a desolation; the grass is withered, the vegetation fails, the greenery is no more.  
Is1507 Therefore the abundance they have gained and what they have laid up they carry away over the Brook of the Willows.  
Is1508 For a cry has gone around the land of Moab; her wailing reaches to Eglaim; her wailing reaches to Beer-elim.  
Is1509 For the waters of Dibon are full of blood; for I will bring upon Dibon even more, a lion for those of Moab who escape, for the remnant of the land.  
Is1601 Send the lamb to the ruler of the land, from Sela, by way of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Zion.  
Is1602 Like fleeing birds, like a scattered nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.  
Is1603 “Give counsel; grant justice; make your shade like night at the height of noon; shelter the outcasts; do not reveal the fugitive;  
Is1604 let the outcasts of Moab sojourn among you; be a shelter to them from the destroyer. When the oppressor is no more, and destruction has ceased, and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land,  
Is1605 then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness.”  
Is1606 We have heard of the pride of Moab— how proud he is!— of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence; in his idle boasting he is not right.  
Is1607 Therefore let Moab wail for Moab, let everyone wail. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.  
Is1608 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its branches, which reached to Jazer and strayed to the desert; its shoots spread abroad and passed over the sea.  
Is1609 Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh; for over your summer fruit and your harvest the shout has ceased.  
Is1610 And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field, and in the vineyards no songs are sung, no cheers are raised; no treader treads out wine in the presses; I have put an end to the shouting.  
Is1611 Therefore my inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab, and my inmost self for Kir- hareseth.  
Is1612 And when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.  
Is1613 This is the word that the LORD spoke concerning Moab in the past.  
Is1614 But now the LORD has spoken, saying, “In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who remain will be very few and feeble.”  
Is1701 An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins.  
Is1702 The cities of Aroer are deserted; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid.  
Is1703 The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, declares the LORD of hosts.  
Is1704 And in that day the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will grow lean.  
Is1705 And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain and his arm harvests the ears, and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.  
Is1706 Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten— two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, declares the LORD God of Israel.  
Is1707 In that day man will look to his Maker, and his eyes will look on the Holy One of Israel.  
Is1708 He will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, and he will not look on what his own fingers have made, either the Asherim or the altars of incense.  
Is1709 In that day their strong cities will be like the deserted places of the wooded heights and the hilltops, which they deserted because of the children of Israel, and there will be desolation.  
Is1710 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,  
Is1711 though you make them grow on the day that you plant them, and make them blossom in the morning that you sow, yet the harvest will flee away in a day of grief and incurable pain.  
Is1712 Ah, the thunder of many peoples; they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, the roar of nations; they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!  
Is1713 The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.  
Is1714 At evening time, behold, terror! Before morning, they are no more! This is the portion of those who loot us, and the lot of those who plunder us.  
Is1801 Ah, land of whirring wings that is beyond the rivers of Cush,  
Is1802 which sends ambassadors by the sea, in vessels of papyrus on the waters! Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide.  
Is1803 All you inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on the earth, when a signal is raised on the mountains, look! When a trumpet is blown, hear!  
Is1804 For thus the LORD said to me: “I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”  
Is1805 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and the spreading branches he lops off and clears away.  
Is1806 They shall all of them be left to the birds of prey of the mountains and to the beasts of the earth. And the birds of prey will summer on them, and all the beasts of the earth will winter on them.  
Is1807 At that time tribute will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the LORD of hosts.  
Is1901 An oracle concerning Egypt. Behold, the LORD is riding on a swift cloud and comes to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence, and the heart of the Egyptians will melt within them.  
Is1902 And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians, and they will fight, each against another and each against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom;  
Is1903 and the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the necromancers;  
Is1904 and I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a hard master, and a fierce king will rule over them, declares the Lord GOD of hosts.  
Is1905 And the waters of the sea will be dried up, and the river will be dry and parched,  
Is1906 and its canals will become foul, and the branches of Egypt’s Nile will diminish and dry up, reeds and rushes will rot away.  
Is1907 There will be bare places by the Nile, on the brink of the Nile, and all that is sown by the Nile will be parched, will be driven away, and will be no more.  
Is1908 The fishermen will mourn and lament, all who cast a hook in the Nile; and they will languish who spread nets on the water.  
Is1909 The workers in combed flax will be in despair, and the weavers of white cotton.  
Is1910 Those who are the pillars of the land will be crushed, and all who work for pay will be grieved.  
Is1911 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the wisest counselors of Pharaoh give stupid counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings”?  
Is1912 Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you that they might know what the LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt.  
Is1913 The princes of Zoan have become fools, and the princes of Memphis are deluded; those who are the cornerstones of her tribes have made Egypt stagger.  
Is1914 The LORD has mingled within her a spirit of confusion, and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.  
Is1915 And there will be nothing for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do.  
Is1916 In that day the Egyptians will be like women, and tremble with fear before the hand that the LORD of hosts shakes over them.  
Is1917 And the land of Judah will become a terror to the Egyptians. Everyone to whom it is mentioned will fear because of the purpose that the LORD of hosts has purposed against them.  
Is1918 In that day there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of hosts. One of these will be called the City of Destruction.  
Is1919 In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD at its border.  
Is1920 It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry to the LORD because of oppressors, he will send them a savior and defender, and deliver them.  
Is1921 And the LORD will make himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know the LORD in that day and worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make vows to the LORD and perform them.  
Is1922 And the LORD will strike Egypt, striking and healing, and they will return to the LORD, and he will listen to their pleas for mercy and heal them.  
Is1923 In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.  
Is1924 In that day Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth,  
Is1925 whom the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”  
Is2001 In the year that the commander in chief, who was sent by Sargon the king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and fought against it and captured it—  
Is2002 at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet,” and he did so, walking naked and barefoot.  
Is2003 Then the LORD said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush,  
Is2004 so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.  
Is2005 Then they shall be dismayed and ashamed because of Cush their hope and of Egypt their boast.  
Is2006 And the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?’”  
Is2101 The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land.  
Is2102 A stern vision is told to me; the traitor betrays, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.  
Is2103 Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.  
Is2104 My heart staggers; horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.  
Is2105 They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes; oil the shield!  
Is2106 For thus the Lord said to me: “Go, set a watchman; let him announce what he sees.  
Is2107 When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, let him listen diligently, very diligently.”  
Is2108 Then he who saw cried out: “Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord, continually by day, and at my post I am stationed whole nights.  
Is2109 And behold, here come riders, horsemen in pairs!” And he answered, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the carved images of her gods he has shattered to the ground.”  
Is2110 O my threshed and winnowed one, what I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, I announce to you.  
Is2111 The oracle concerning Dumah. One is calling to me from Seir, “Watchman, what time of the night? Watchman, what time of the night?”  
Is2112 The watchman says: “Morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; come back again.”  
Is2113 The oracle concerning Arabia. In the thickets in Arabia you will lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.  
Is2114 To the thirsty bring water; meet the fugitive with bread, O inhabitants of the land of Tema.  
Is2115 For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, from the bent bow, and from the press of battle.  
Is2116 For thus the Lord said to me, “Within a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.  
Is2117 And the remainder of the archers of the mighty men of the sons of Kedar will be few, for the LORD, the God of Israel, has spoken.”  
Is2201 The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,  
Is2202 you who are full of shoutings, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword or dead in battle.  
Is2203 All your leaders have fled together; without the bow they were captured. All of you who were found were captured, though they had fled far away.  
Is2204 Therefore I said: “Look away from me; let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”  
Is2205 For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.  
Is2206 And Elam bore the quiver with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.  
Is2207 Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.  
Is2208 He has taken away the covering of Judah. In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest,  
Is2209 and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many. You collected the waters of the lower pool,  
Is2210 and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.  
Is2211 You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago.  
Is2212 In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth;  
Is2213 and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”  
Is2214 The LORD of hosts has revealed himself in my ears: “Surely this iniquity will not be atoned for you until you die,” says the Lord GOD of hosts.  
Is2215 Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, “Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him:  
Is2216 What have you to do here, and whom have you here, that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock?  
Is2217 Behold, the LORD will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you  
Is2218 and whirl you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a wide land. There you shall die, and there shall be your glorious chariots, you shame of your master’s house.  
Is2219 I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your station.  
Is2220 In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,  
Is2221 and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your sash on him, and will commit your authority to his hand. And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.  
Is2222 And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.  
Is2223 And I will fasten him like a peg in a secure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father’s house.  
Is2224 And they will hang on him the whole honor of his father’s house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons.  
Is2225 In that day, declares the LORD of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken.”  
Is2301 The oracle concerning Tyre. Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor! From the land of Cyprus it is revealed to them.  
Is2302 Be still, O inhabitants of the coast; the merchants of Sidon, who cross the sea, have filled you.  
Is2303 And on many waters your revenue was the grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile; you were the merchant of the nations.  
Is2304 Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying: “I have neither labored nor given birth, I have neither reared young men nor brought up young women.”  
Is2305 When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish over the report about Tyre.  
Is2306 Cross over to Tarshish; wail, O inhabitants of the coast!  
Is2307 Is this your exultant city whose origin is from days of old, whose feet carried her to settle far away?  
Is2308 Who has purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were the honored of the earth?  
Is2309 The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth.  
Is2310 Cross over your land like the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint anymore.  
Is2311 He has stretched out his hand over the sea; he has shaken the kingdoms; the LORD has given command concerning Canaan to destroy its strongholds.  
Is2312 And he said: “You will no more exult, O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon; arise, cross over to Cyprus, even there you will have no rest.”  
Is2313 Behold the land of the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not; Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.  
Is2314 Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste.  
Is2315 In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:  
Is2316 “Take a harp; go about the city, O forgotten prostitute! Make sweet melody; sing many songs, that you may be remembered.”  
Is2317 At the end of seventy years, the LORD will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages and will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.  
Is2318 Her merchandise and her wages will be holy to the LORD. It will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who dwell before the LORD.  
Is2401 Behold, the LORD will empty the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.  
Is2402 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.  
Is2403 The earth shall be utterly empty and utterly plundered; for the LORD has spoken this word.  
Is2404 The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and withers; the highest people of the earth languish.  
Is2405 The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.  
Is2406 Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left.  
Is2407 The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted sigh.  
Is2408 The mirth of the tambourines is stilled, the noise of the jubilant has ceased, the mirth of the lyre is stilled.  
Is2409 No more do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.  
Is2410 The wasted city is broken down; every house is shut up so that none can enter.  
Is2411 There is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine; all joy has grown dark; the gladness of the earth is banished.  
Is2412 Desolation is left in the city; the gates are battered into ruins.  
Is2413 For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is done.  
Is2414 They lift up their voices, they sing for joy; over the majesty of the LORD they shout from the west.  
Is2415 Therefore in the east give glory to the LORD; in the coastlands of the sea, give glory to the name of the LORD, the God of Israel.  
Is2416 From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, “I waste away, I waste away. Woe is me! For the traitors have betrayed, with betrayal the traitors have betrayed.”  
Is2417 Terror and the pit and the snare are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth!  
Is2418 He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.  
Is2419 The earth is utterly broken, the earth is split apart, the earth is violently shaken.  
Is2420 The earth staggers like a drunken man; it sways like a hut; its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it falls, and will not rise again.  
Is2421 On that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven, in heaven, and the kings of the earth, on the earth.  
Is2422 They will be gathered together as prisoners in a pit; they will be shut up in a prison, and after many days they will be punished.  
Is2423 Then the moon will be confounded and the sun ashamed, for the LORD of hosts reigns on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and his glory will be before his elders.  
Is2501 O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.  
Is2502 For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the foreigners’ palace is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.  
Is2503 Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.  
Is2504 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,  
Is2505 like heat in a dry place. You subdue the noise of the foreigners; as heat by the shade of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is put down.  
Is2506 On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.  
Is2507 And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.  
Is2508 He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.  
Is2509 It will be said on that day, “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the LORD; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”  
Is2510 For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain, and Moab shall be trampled down in his place, as straw is trampled down in a dunghill.  
Is2511 And he will spread out his hands in the midst of it as a swimmer spreads his hands out to swim, but the LORD will lay low his pompous pride together with the skill of his hands.  
Is2512 And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down, lay low, and cast to the ground, to the dust.  
Is2601 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks.  
Is2602 Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in.  
Is2603 You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.  
Is2604 Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.  
Is2605 For he has humbled the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust.  
Is2606 The foot tramples it, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy.”  
Is2607 The path of the righteous is level; you make level the way of the righteous.  
Is2608 In the path of your judgments, O LORD, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.  
Is2609 My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.  
Is2610 If favor is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly and does not see the majesty of the LORD.  
Is2611 O LORD, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people, and be ashamed. Let the fire for your adversaries consume them.  
Is2612 O LORD, you will ordain peace for us, for you have indeed done for us all our works.  
Is2613 O LORD our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone we bring to remembrance.  
Is2614 They are dead, they will not live; they are shades, they will not arise; to that end you have visited them with destruction and wiped out all remembrance of them.  
Is2615 But you have increased the nation, O LORD, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.  
Is2616 O LORD, in distress they sought you; they poured out a whispered prayer when your discipline was upon them.  
Is2617 Like a pregnant woman who writhes and cries out in her pangs when she is near to giving birth, so were we because of you, O LORD;  
Is2618 we were pregnant, we writhed, but we have given birth to wind. We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth, and the inhabitants of the world have not fallen.  
Is2619 Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.  
Is2620 Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by.  
Is2621 For behold, the LORD is coming out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.  
Is2701 In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.  
Is2702 In that day, “A pleasant vineyard, sing of it!  
Is2703 I, the LORD, am its keeper; every moment I water it. Lest anyone punish it, I keep it night and day;  
Is2704 I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would march against them, I would burn them up together.  
Is2705 Or let them lay hold of my protection, let them make peace with me, let them make peace with me.”  
Is2706 In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit.  
Is2707 Has he struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or have they been slain as their slayers were slain?  
Is2708 Measure by measure, by exile you contended with them; he removed them with his fierce breath in the day of the east wind.  
Is2709 Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altars like chalkstones crushed to pieces, no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.  
Is2710 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; there the calf grazes; there it lies down and strips its branches.  
Is2711 When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.  
Is2712 In that day from the river Euphrates to the Brook of Egypt the LORD will thresh out the grain, and you will be gleaned one by one, O people of Israel.  
Is2713 And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.  
Is2801 Ah, the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!  
Is2802 Behold, the Lord has one who is mighty and strong; like a storm of hail, a destroying tempest, like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters, he casts down to the earth with his hand.  
Is2803 The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden underfoot;  
Is2804 and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer: when someone sees it, he swallows it as soon as it is in his hand.  
Is2805 In that day the LORD of hosts will be a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, to the remnant of his people,  
Is2806 and a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.  
Is2807 These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.  
Is2808 For all tables are full of filthy vomit, with no space left.  
Is2809 “To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?  
Is2810 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”  
Is2811 For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the LORD will speak to this people,  
Is2812 to whom he has said, “This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose”; yet they would not hear.  
Is2813 And the word of the LORD will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little, that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.  
Is2814 Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers, who rule this people in Jerusalem!  
Is2815 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;  
Is2816 therefore thus says the Lord GOD, “Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘Whoever believes will not be in haste.’  
Is2817 And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter.”  
Is2818 Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it.  
Is2819 As often as it passes through it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.  
Is2820 For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in.  
Is2821 For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Perazim; as in the Valley of Gibeon he will be roused; to do his deed—strange is his deed! and to work his work—alien is his work!  
Is2822 Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord GOD of hosts against the whole land.  
Is2823 Give ear, and hear my voice; give attention, and hear my speech.  
Is2824 Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground?  
Is2825 When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cumin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and emmer as the border?  
Is2826 For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him.  
Is2827 Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.  
Is2828 Does one crush grain for bread? No, he does not thresh it forever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it.  
Is2829 This also comes from the LORD of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.  
Is2901 Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round.  
Is2902 Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be moaning and lamentation, and she shall be to me like an Ariel.  
Is2903 And I will encamp against you all around, and will besiege you with towers and I will raise siegeworks against you.  
Is2904 And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall speak, and from the dust your speech will be bowed down; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and from the dust your speech shall whisper.  
Is2905 But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,  
Is2906 you will be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.  
Is2907 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all that fight against her and her stronghold and distress her, shall be like a dream, a vision of the night.  
Is2908 As when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he is eating, and awakes with his hunger not satisfied, or as when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he is drinking, and awakes faint, with his thirst not quenched, so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.  
Is2909 Astonish yourselves and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink!  
Is2910 For the LORD has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes (the prophets), and covered your heads (the seers).  
Is2911 And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.”  
Is2912 And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.”  
Is2913 And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,  
Is2914 therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden.”  
Is2915 Ah, you who hide deep from the LORD your counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”  
Is2916 You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, “He did not make me”; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?  
Is2917 Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?  
Is2918 In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.  
Is2919 The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the LORD, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.  
Is2920 For the ruthless shall come to nothing and the scoffer cease, and all who watch to do evil shall be cut off,  
Is2921 who by a word make a man out to be an offender, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.  
Is2922 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob: “Jacob shall no more be ashamed, no more shall his face grow pale.  
Is2923 For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will sanctify my name; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.  
Is2924 And those who go astray in spirit will come to understanding, and those who murmur will accept instruction.”  
Is3001 “Ah, stubborn children,” declares the LORD, “who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;  
Is3002 who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for my direction, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!  
Is3003 Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.  
Is3004 For though his officials are at Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes,  
Is3005 everyone comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace.”  
Is3006 An oracle on the beasts of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the adder and the flying fiery serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them.  
Is3007 Egypt’s help is worthless and empty; therefore I have called her “Rahab who sits still.”  
Is3008 And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.  
Is3009 For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the LORD;  
Is3010 who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions,  
Is3011 leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”  
Is3012 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and rely on them,  
Is3013 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;  
Is3014 and its breaking is like that of a potter’s vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a shard is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”  
Is3015 For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” But you were unwilling,  
Is3016 and you said, “No! We will flee upon horses”; therefore you shall flee away; and, “We will ride upon swift steeds”; therefore your pursuers shall be swift.  
Is3017 A thousand shall flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.  
Is3018 Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.  
Is3019 For a people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you.  
Is3020 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.  
Is3021 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.  
Is3022 Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, “Be gone!”  
Is3023 And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures,  
Is3024 and the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.  
Is3025 And on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.  
Is3026 Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the LORD binds up the brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.  
Is3027 Behold, the name of the LORD comes from afar, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke; his lips are full of fury, and his tongue is like a devouring fire;  
Is3028 his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.  
Is3029 You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.  
Is3030 And the LORD will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and storm and hailstones.  
Is3031 The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the LORD, when he strikes with his rod.  
Is3032 And every stroke of the appointed staff that the LORD lays on them will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. Battling with brandished arm, he will fight with them.  
Is3033 For a burning place has long been prepared; indeed, for the king it is made ready, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.  
Is3101 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the LORD!  
Is3102 And yet he is wise and brings disaster; he does not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evildoers and against the helpers of those who work iniquity.  
Is3103 The Egyptians are man, and not God, and their horses are flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and he who is helped will fall, and they will all perish together.  
Is3104 For thus the LORD said to me, “As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey, and when a band of shepherds is called out against him he is not terrified by their shouting or daunted at their noise, so the LORD of hosts will come down to fight on Mount Zion and on its hill.  
Is3105 Like birds hovering, so the LORD of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it; he will spare and rescue it.”  
Is3106 Turn to him from whom people have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.  
Is3107 For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which your hands have sinfully made for you.  
Is3108 “And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man; and a sword, not of man, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be put to forced labor.  
Is3109 His rock shall pass away in terror, and his officers desert the standard in panic,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.  
Is3201 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule in justice.  
Is3202 Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.  
Is3203 Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will give attention.  
Is3204 The heart of the hasty will understand and know, and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly.  
Is3205 The fool will no more be called noble, nor the scoundrel said to be honorable.  
Is3206 For the fool speaks folly, and his heart is busy with iniquity, to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the LORD, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.  
Is3207 As for the scoundrel—his devices are evil; he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.  
Is3208 But he who is noble plans noble things, and on noble things he stands.  
Is3209 Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.  
Is3210 In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent women; for the grape harvest fails, the fruit harvest will not come.  
Is3211 Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and tie sackcloth around your waist.  
Is3212 Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,  
Is3213 for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the exultant city.  
Is3214 For the palace is forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks;  
Is3215 until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.  
Is3216 Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field.  
Is3217 And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.  
Is3218 My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.  
Is3219 And it will hail when the forest falls down, and the city will be utterly laid low.  
Is3220 Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free.  
Is3301 Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed, you traitor, whom none has betrayed! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you.  
Is3302 O LORD, be gracious to us; we wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.  
Is3303 At the tumultuous noise peoples flee; when you lift yourself up, nations are scattered,  
Is3304 and your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathers; as locusts leap, it is leapt upon.  
Is3305 The LORD is exalted, for he dwells on high; he will fill Zion with justice and righteousness,  
Is3306 and he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is Zion’s treasure.  
Is3307 Behold, their heroes cry in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.  
Is3308 The highways lie waste; the traveler ceases. Covenants are broken; cities are despised; there is no regard for man.  
Is3309 The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.  
Is3310 “Now I will arise,” says the LORD, “now I will lift myself up; now I will be exalted.  
Is3311 You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.  
Is3312 And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”  
Is3313 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and you who are near, acknowledge my might.  
Is3314 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: “Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?”  
Is3315 He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,  
Is3316 he will dwell on the heights; his place of defense will be the fortresses of rocks; his bread will be given him; his water will be sure.  
Is3317 Your eyes will behold the king in his beauty; they will see a land that stretches afar.  
Is3318 Your heart will muse on the terror: “Where is he who counted, where is he who weighed the tribute? Where is he who counted the towers?”  
Is3319 You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand.  
Is3320 Behold Zion, the city of our appointed feasts! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an untroubled habitation, an immovable tent, whose stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.  
Is3321 But there the LORD in majesty will be for us a place of broad rivers and streams, where no galley with oars can go, nor majestic ship can pass.  
Is3322 For the LORD is our judge; the LORD is our lawgiver; the LORD is our king; he will save us.  
Is3323 Your cords hang loose; they cannot hold the mast firm in its place or keep the sail spread out. Then prey and spoil in abundance will be divided; even the lame will take the prey.  
Is3324 And no inhabitant will say, “I am sick”; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.  
Is3401 Draw near, O nations, to hear, and give attention, O peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it.  
Is3402 For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.  
Is3403 Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood.  
Is3404 All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.  
Is3405 For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.  
Is3406 The LORD has a sword; it is sated with blood; it is gorged with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.  
Is3407 Wild oxen shall fall with them, and young steers with the mighty bulls. Their land shall drink its fill of blood, and their soil shall be gorged with fat.  
Is3408 For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.  
Is3409 And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into sulfur; her land shall become burning pitch.  
Is3410 Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.  
Is3411 But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.  
Is3412 Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom, and all its princes shall be nothing.  
Is3413 Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.  
Is3414 And wild animals shall meet with hyenas; the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; indeed, there the night bird settles and finds for herself a resting place.  
Is3415 There the owl nests and lays and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow; indeed, there the hawks are gathered, each one with her mate.  
Is3416 Seek and read from the book of the LORD: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the LORD has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.  
Is3417 He has cast the lot for them; his hand has portioned it out to them with the line; they shall possess it forever; from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.  
Is3501 The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus;  
Is3502 it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the LORD, the majesty of our God.  
Is3503 Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.  
Is3504 Say to those who have an anxious heart, “Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.”  
Is3505 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped;  
Is3506 then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert;  
Is3507 the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the haunt of jackals, where they lie down, the grass shall become reeds and rushes.  
Is3508 And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it. It shall belong to those who walk on the way; even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.  
Is3509 No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it; they shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there.  
Is3510 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.  
Is3601 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.  
Is3602 And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem, with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer’s Field.  
Is3603 And there came out to him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.  
Is3604 And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours?  
Is3605 Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me?  
Is3606 Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.  
Is3607 But if you say to me, “We trust in the LORD our God,” is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, “You shall worship before this altar”?  
Is3608 Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.  
Is3609 How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master’s servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?  
Is3610 Moreover, is it without the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, “Go up against this land and destroy it.”’”  
Is3611 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”  
Is3612 But the Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”  
Is3613 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!  
Is3614 Thus says the king: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you.  
Is3615 Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD by saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us. This city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”  
Is3616 Do not listen to Hezekiah. For thus says the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern,  
Is3617 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.  
Is3618 Beware lest Hezekiah mislead you by saying, “The LORD will deliver us.” Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?  
Is3619 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?  
Is3620 Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”  
Is3621 But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s command was, “Do not answer him.”  
Is3622 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.  
Is3701 As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD.  
Is3702 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.  
Is3703 They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.  
Is3704 It may be that the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”  
Is3705 When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah,  
Is3706 Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master, ‘Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the young men of the king of Assyria have reviled me.  
Is3707 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.’”  
Is3708 The Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.  
Is3709 Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, “He has set out to fight against you.” And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,  
Is3710 “Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.  
Is3711 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered?  
Is3712 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?  
Is3713 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?’”  
Is3714 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.  
Is3715 And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD:  
Is3716 “O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.  
Is3717 Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.  
Is3718 Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their lands,  
Is3719 and have cast their gods into the fire. For they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.  
Is3720 So now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the LORD.”  
Is3721 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria,  
Is3722 this is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: “‘She despises you, she scorns you— the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you— the daughter of Jerusalem.  
Is3723 “‘Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!  
Is3724 By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon, to cut down its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses, to come to its remotest height, its most fruitful forest.  
Is3725 I dug wells and drank waters, to dry up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.  
Is3726 “‘Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,  
Is3727 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.  
Is3728 “‘I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.  
Is3729 Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.’  
Is3730 “And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that. Then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.  
Is3731 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.  
Is3732 For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.  
Is3733 “Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.  
Is3734 By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the LORD.  
Is3735 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”  
Is3736 And the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.  
Is3737 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at Nineveh.  
Is3738 And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword. And after they escaped into the land of Ararat, Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.  
Is3801 In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said to him, “Thus says the LORD: Set your house in order, for you shall die, you shall not recover.”  
Is3802 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,  
Is3803 and said, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.  
Is3804 Then the word of the LORD came to Isaiah:  
Is3805 “Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.  
Is3806 I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and will defend this city.  
Is3807 “This shall be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he has promised:  
Is3808 Behold, I will make the shadow cast by the declining sun on the dial of Ahaz turn back ten steps.” So the sun turned back on the dial the ten steps by which it had declined.  
Is3809 A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, after he had been sick and had recovered from his sickness:  
Is3810 I said, In the middle of my days I must depart; I am consigned to the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years.  
Is3811 I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORD in the land of the living; I shall look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.  
Is3812 My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;  
Is3813 I calmed myself until morning; like a lion he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end.  
Is3814 Like a swallow or a crane I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!  
Is3815 What shall I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.  
Is3816 O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these is the life of my spirit. Oh restore me to health and make me live!  
Is3817 Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.  
Is3818 For Sheol does not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not hope for your faithfulness.  
Is3819 The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness.  
Is3820 The LORD will save me, and we will play my music on stringed instruments all the days of our lives, at the house of the LORD.  
Is3821 Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.”  
Is3822 Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the LORD?”  
Is3901 At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent envoys with letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.  
Is3902 And Hezekiah welcomed them gladly. And he showed them his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his whole armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.  
Is3903 Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? And from where did they come to you?” Hezekiah said, “They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon.”  
Is3904 He said, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing in my storehouses that I did not show them.”  
Is3905 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD of hosts:  
Is3906 Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the LORD.  
Is3907 And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”  
Is3908 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “There will be peace and security in my days.”  
Is4001 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.  
Is4002 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.  
Is4003 A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.  
Is4004 Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.  
Is4005 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”  
Is4006 A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.  
Is4007 The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass.  
Is4008 The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.  
Is4009 Go on up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”  
Is4010 Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.  
Is4011 He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.  
Is4012 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?  
Is4013 Who has measured the Spirit of the LORD, or what man shows him his counsel?  
Is4014 Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?  
Is4015 Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.  
Is4016 Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.  
Is4017 All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.  
Is4018 To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?  
Is4019 An idol! A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains.  
Is4020 He who is too impoverished for an offering chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skillful craftsman to set up an idol that will not move.  
Is4021 Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?  
Is4022 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;  
Is4023 who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.  
Is4024 Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.  
Is4025 To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One.  
Is4026 Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might and because he is strong in power, not one is missing.  
Is4027 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God”?  
Is4028 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.  
Is4029 He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.  
Is4030 Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;  
Is4031 but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.  
Is4101 Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment.  
Is4102 Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.  
Is4103 He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod.  
Is4104 Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.  
Is4105 The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come.  
Is4106 Everyone helps his neighbor and says to his brother, “Be strong!”  
Is4107 The craftsman strengthens the goldsmith, and he who smooths with the hammer him who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good”; and they strengthen it with nails so that it cannot be moved.  
Is4108 But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;  
Is4109 you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, “You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off”;  
Is4110 fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.  
Is4111 Behold, all who are incensed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.  
Is4112 You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.  
Is4113 For I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.”  
Is4114 Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I am the one who helps you, declares the LORD; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.  
Is4115 Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff;  
Is4116 you shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the LORD; in the Holy One of Israel you shall glory.  
Is4117 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the LORD will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.  
Is4118 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.  
Is4119 I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive. I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together,  
Is4120 that they may see and know, may consider and understand together, that the hand of the LORD has done this, the Holy One of Israel has created it.  
Is4121 Set forth your case, says the LORD; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob.  
Is4122 Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen. Tell us the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, that we may know their outcome; or declare to us the things to come.  
Is4123 Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be dismayed and terrified.  
Is4124 Behold, you are nothing, and your work is less than nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you.  
Is4125 I stirred up one from the north, and he has come, from the rising of the sun, and he shall call upon my name; he shall trample on rulers as on mortar, as the potter treads clay.  
Is4126 Who declared it from the beginning, that we might know, and beforehand, that we might say, “He is right”? There was none who declared it, none who proclaimed, none who heard your words.  
Is4127 I was the first to say to Zion, “Behold, here they are!” and I give to Jerusalem a herald of good news.  
Is4128 But when I look, there is no one; among these there is no counselor who, when I ask, gives an answer.  
Is4129 Behold, they are all a delusion; their works are nothing; their metal images are empty wind.  
Is4201 Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.  
Is4202 He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street;  
Is4203 a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.  
Is4204 He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.  
Is4205 Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:  
Is4206 “I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,  
Is4207 to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.  
Is4208 I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.  
Is4209 Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”  
Is4210 Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants.  
Is4211 Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits; let the habitants of Sela sing for joy, let them shout from the top of the mountains.  
Is4212 Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare his praise in the coastlands.  
Is4213 The LORD goes out like a mighty man, like a man of war he stirs up his zeal; he cries out, he shouts aloud, he shows himself mighty against his foes.  
Is4214 For a long time I have held my peace; I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant.  
Is4215 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation; I will turn the rivers into islands, and dry up the pools.  
Is4216 And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I do, and I do not forsake them.  
Is4217 They are turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in carved idols, who say to metal images, “You are our gods.”  
Is4218 Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see!  
Is4219 Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the LORD?  
Is4220 He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.  
Is4221 The LORD was pleased, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious.  
Is4222 But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say, “Restore!”  
Is4223 Who among you will give ear to this, will attend and listen for the time to come?  
Is4224 Who gave up Jacob to the looter, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey?  
Is4225 So he poured on him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart.  
Is4301 But now thus says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.  
Is4302 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.  
Is4303 For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you.  
Is4304 Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.  
Is4305 Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you.  
Is4306 I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth,  
Is4307 everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”  
Is4308 Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!  
Is4309 All the nations gather together, and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right, and let them hear and say, It is true.  
Is4310 “You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.  
Is4311 I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior.  
Is4312 I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and I am God.  
Is4313 Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?”  
Is4314 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I send to Babylon and bring them all down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.  
Is4315 I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”  
Is4316 Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters,  
Is4317 who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick:  
Is4318 “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.  
Is4319 Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.  
Is4320 The wild beasts will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches, for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people,  
Is4321 the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.  
Is4322 “Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel!  
Is4323 You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings, or honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, or wearied you with frankincense.  
Is4324 You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.  
Is4325 “I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.  
Is4326 Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.  
Is4327 Your first father sinned, and your mediators transgressed against me.  
Is4328 Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary, and deliver Jacob to utter destruction and Israel to reviling.  
Is4401 “But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen!  
Is4402 Thus says the LORD who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.  
Is4403 For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.  
Is4404 They shall spring up among the grass like willows by flowing streams.  
Is4405 This one will say, ‘I am the LORD’s,’ another will call on the name of Jacob, and another will write on his hand, ‘The LORD’s,’ and name himself by the name of Israel.”  
Is4406 Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.  
Is4407 Who is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and set it before me, since I appointed an ancient people. Let them declare what is to come, and what will happen.  
Is4408 Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any.”  
Is4409 All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.  
Is4410 Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing?  
Is4411 Behold, all his companions shall be put to shame, and the craftsmen are only human. Let them all assemble, let them stand forth. They shall be terrified; they shall be put to shame together.  
Is4412 The ironsmith takes a cutting tool and works it over the coals. He fashions it with hammers and works it with his strong arm. He becomes hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water and is faint.  
Is4413 The carpenter stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes and marks it with a compass. He shapes it into the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.  
Is4414 He cuts down cedars, or he chooses a cypress tree or an oak and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a cedar and the rain nourishes it.  
Is4415 Then it becomes fuel for a man. He takes a part of it and warms himself; he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Also he makes a god and worships it; he makes it an idol and falls down before it.  
Is4416 Half of it he burns in the fire. Over the half he eats meat; he roasts it and is satisfied. Also he warms himself and says, “Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire!”  
Is4417 And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, and falls down to it and worships it. He prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!”  
Is4418 They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand.  
Is4419 No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?”  
Is4420 He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”  
Is4421 Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant; I formed you; you are my servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.  
Is4422 I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud and your sins like mist; return to me, for I have redeemed you.  
Is4423 Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and will be glorified in Israel.  
Is4424 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself,  
Is4425 who frustrates the signs of liars and makes fools of diviners, who turns wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,  
Is4426 who confirms the word of his servant and fulfills the counsel of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited,’ and of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built, and I will raise up their ruins’;  
Is4427 who says to the deep, ‘Be dry; I will dry up your rivers’;  
Is4428 who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and he shall fulfill all my purpose’; saying of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be built,’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation shall be laid.’”  
Is4501 Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:  
Is4502 “I will go before you and level the exalted places, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron,  
Is4503 I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who call you by your name.  
Is4504 For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen, I call you by your name, I name you, though you do not know me.  
Is4505 I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me,  
Is4506 that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the LORD, and there is no other.  
Is4507 I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things.  
Is4508 “Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit; let the earth cause them both to sprout; I the LORD have created it.  
Is4509 “Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?  
Is4510 Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in labor?’”  
Is4511 Thus says the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him: “Ask me of things to come; will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands?  
Is4512 I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.  
Is4513 I have stirred him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways level; he shall build my city and set my exiles free, not for price or reward,” says the LORD of hosts.  
Is4514 Thus says the LORD: “The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you and be yours; they shall follow you; they shall come over in chains and bow down to you. They will plead with you, saying: ‘Surely God is in you, and there is no other, no god besides him.’”  
Is4515 Truly, you are a God who hides himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.  
Is4516 All of them are put to shame and confounded; the makers of idols go in confusion together.  
Is4517 But Israel is saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.  
Is4518 For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the LORD, and there is no other.  
Is4519 I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I the LORD speak the truth; I declare what is right.  
Is4520 “Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.  
Is4521 Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.  
Is4522 “Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.  
Is4523 By myself I have sworn; from my mouth has gone out in righteousness a word that shall not return: ‘To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear allegiance.’  
Is4524 “Only in the LORD, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed all who were incensed against him.  
Is4525 In the LORD all the offspring of Israel shall be justified and shall glory.”  
Is4601 Bel bows down; Nebo stoops; their idols are on beasts and livestock; these things you carry are borne as burdens on weary beasts.  
Is4602 They stoop; they bow down together; they cannot save the burden, but themselves go into captivity.  
Is4603 “Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from before your birth, carried from the womb;  
Is4604 even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.  
Is4605 “To whom will you liken me and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike?  
Is4606 Those who lavish gold from the purse, and weigh out silver in the scales, hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god; then they fall down and worship!  
Is4607 They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it, they set it in its place, and it stands there; it cannot move from its place. If one cries to it, it does not answer or save him from his trouble.  
Is4608 “Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors,  
Is4609 remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,  
Is4610 declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’  
Is4611 calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have purposed, and I will do it.  
Is4612 “Listen to me, you stubborn of heart, you who are far from righteousness:  
Is4613 I bring near my righteousness; it is not far off, and my salvation will not delay; I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory.”  
Is4701 Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.  
Is4702 Take the millstones and grind flour, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.  
Is4703 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your disgrace shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one.  
Is4704 Our Redeemer—the LORD of hosts is his name— is the Holy One of Israel.  
Is4705 Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.  
Is4706 I was angry with my people; I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand; you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.  
Is4707 You said, “I shall be mistress forever,” so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.  
Is4708 Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children”:  
Is4709 These two things shall come to you in a moment, in one day; the loss of children and widowhood shall come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the great power of your enchantments.  
Is4710 You felt secure in your wickedness; you said, “No one sees me”; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.”  
Is4711 But evil shall come upon you, which you will not know how to charm away; disaster shall fall upon you, for which you will not be able to atone; and ruin shall come upon you suddenly, of which you know nothing.  
Is4712 Stand fast in your enchantments and your many sorceries, with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you may be able to succeed; perhaps you may inspire terror.  
Is4713 You are wearied with your many counsels; let them stand forth and save you, those who divide the heavens, who gaze at the stars, who at the new moons make known what shall come upon you.  
Is4714 Behold, they are like stubble; the fire consumes them; they cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. No coal for warming oneself is this, no fire to sit before!  
Is4715 Such to you are those with whom you have labored, who have done business with you from your youth; they wander about, each in his own direction; there is no one to save you.  
Is4801 Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and who came from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD and confess the God of Israel, but not in truth or right.  
Is4802 For they call themselves after the holy city, and stay themselves on the God of Israel; the LORD of hosts is his name.  
Is4803 “The former things I declared of old; they went out from my mouth, and I announced them; then suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.  
Is4804 Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,  
Is4805 I declared them to you from of old, before they came to pass I announced them to you, lest you should say, ‘My idol did them, my carved image and my metal image commanded them.’  
Is4806 “You have heard; now see all this; and will you not declare it? From this time forth I announce to you new things, hidden things that you have not known.  
Is4807 They are created now, not long ago; before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’  
Is4808 You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and that from before birth you were called a rebel.  
Is4809 “For my name’s sake I defer my anger; for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off.  
Is4810 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction.  
Is4811 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.  
Is4812 “Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I called! I am he; I am the first, and I am the last.  
Is4813 My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together.  
Is4814 “Assemble, all of you, and listen! Who among them has declared these things? The LORD loves him; he shall perform his purpose on Babylon, and his arm shall be against the Chaldeans.  
Is4815 I, even I, have spoken and called him; I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.  
Is4816 Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, and his Spirit.  
Is4817 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.  
Is4818 Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;  
Is4819 your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before me.”  
Is4820 Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it out to the end of the earth; say, “The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!”  
Is4821 They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the rock; he split the rock and the water gushed out.  
Is4822 “There is no peace,” says the LORD, “for the wicked.”  
Is4901 Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.  
Is4902 He made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me a polished arrow; in his quiver he hid me away.  
Is4903 And he said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”  
Is4904 But I said, “I have labored in vain; I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and my recompense with my God.”  
Is4905 And now the LORD says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him; and that Israel might be gathered to him— for I am honored in the eyes of the LORD, and my God has become my strength—  
Is4906 he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”  
Is4907 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation, the servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”  
Is4908 Thus says the LORD: “In a time of favor I have answered you; in a day of salvation I have helped you; I will keep you and give you as a covenant to the people, to establish the land, to apportion the desolate heritages,  
Is4909 saying to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ to those who are in darkness, ‘Appear.’ They shall feed along the ways; on all bare heights shall be their pasture;  
Is4910 they shall not hunger or thirst, neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike them, for he who has pity on them will lead them, and by springs of water will guide them.  
Is4911 And I will make all my mountains a road, and my highways shall be raised up.  
Is4912 Behold, these shall come from afar, and behold, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Syene.”  
Is4913 Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the LORD has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.  
Is4914 But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me.”  
Is4915 “Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.  
Is4916 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.  
Is4917 Your builders make haste; your destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you.  
Is4918 Lift up your eyes around and see; they all gather, they come to you. As I live, declares the LORD, you shall put them all on as an ornament; you shall bind them on as a bride does.  
Is4919 “Surely your waste and your desolate places and your devastated land— surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.  
Is4920 The children of your bereavement will yet say in your ears: ‘The place is too narrow for me; make room for me to dwell in.’  
Is4921 Then you will say in your heart: ‘Who has borne me these? I was bereaved and barren, exiled and put away, but who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; from where have these come?’”  
Is4922 Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my signal to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.  
Is4923 Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.”  
Is4924 Can the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be rescued?  
Is4925 For thus says the LORD: “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken, and the prey of the tyrant be rescued, for I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.  
Is4926 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am the LORD your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”  
Is5001 Thus says the LORD: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.  
Is5002 Why, when I came, was there no man; why, when I called, was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a desert; their fish stink for lack of water and die of thirst.  
Is5003 I clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering.”  
Is5004 The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.  
Is5005 The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not backward.  
Is5006 I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting.  
Is5007 But the Lord GOD helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.  
Is5008 He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.  
Is5009 Behold, the Lord GOD helps me; who will declare me guilty? Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up.  
Is5010 Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of his servant? Let him who walks in darkness and has no light trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God.  
Is5011 Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who equip yourselves with burning torches! Walk by the light of your fire, and by the torches that you have kindled! This you have from my hand: you shall lie down in torment.  
Is5101 “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug.  
Is5102 Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him.  
Is5103 For the LORD comforts Zion; he comforts all her waste places and makes her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song.  
Is5104 “Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.  
Is5105 My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait.  
Is5106 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will never be dismayed.  
Is5107 “Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of man, nor be dismayed at their revilings.  
Is5108 For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool, but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”  
Is5109 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon?  
Is5110 Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?  
Is5111 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.  
Is5112 “I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass,  
Is5113 and have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and you fear continually all the day because of the wrath of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the wrath of the oppressor?  
Is5114 He who is bowed down shall speedily be released; he shall not die and go down to the pit, neither shall his bread be lacking.  
Is5115 I am the LORD your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the LORD of hosts is his name.  
Is5116 And I have put my words in your mouth and covered you in the shadow of my hand, establishing the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth, and saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”  
Is5117 Wake yourself, wake yourself, stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of his wrath, who have drunk to the dregs the bowl, the cup of staggering.  
Is5118 There is none to guide her among all the sons she has borne; there is none to take her by the hand among all the sons she has brought up.  
Is5119 These two things have happened to you— who will console you?— devastation and destruction, famine and sword; who will comfort you?  
Is5120 Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.  
Is5121 Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted, who are drunk, but not with wine:  
Is5122 Thus says your Lord, the LORD, your God who pleads the cause of his people: “Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering; the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;  
Is5123 and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, ‘Bow down, that we may pass over’; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over.”  
Is5201 Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.  
Is5202 Shake yourself from the dust and arise; be seated, O Jerusalem; loose the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.  
Is5203 For thus says the LORD: “You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.”  
Is5204 For thus says the Lord GOD: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.  
Is5205 Now therefore what have I here,” declares the LORD, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the LORD, “and continually all the day my name is despised.  
Is5206 Therefore my people shall know my name. Therefore in that day they shall know that it is I who speak; here I am.”  
Is5207 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”  
Is5208 The voice of your watchmen—they lift up their voice; together they sing for joy; for eye to eye they see the return of the LORD to Zion.  
Is5209 Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem.  
Is5210 The LORD has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.  
Is5211 Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the LORD.  
Is5212 For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.  
Is5213 Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted.  
Is5214 As many were astonished at you— his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—  
Is5215 so shall he sprinkle many nations. Kings shall shut their mouths because of him, for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.  
Is5301 Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?  
Is5302 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.  
Is5303 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.  
Is5304 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.  
Is5305 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.  
Is5306 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.  
Is5307 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.  
Is5308 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?  
Is5309 And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.  
Is5310 Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.  
Is5311 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.  
Is5312 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.  
Is5401 “Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married,” says the LORD.  
Is5402 “Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.  
Is5403 For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your offspring will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities.  
Is5404 “Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.  
Is5405 For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.  
Is5406 For the LORD has called you like a wife deserted and grieved in spirit, like a wife of youth when she is cast off, says your God.  
Is5407 For a brief moment I deserted you, but with great compassion I will gather you.  
Is5408 In overflowing anger for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD, your Redeemer.  
Is5409 “This is like the days of Noah to me: as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you, and will not rebuke you.  
Is5410 For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.  
Is5411 “O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.  
Is5412 I will make your pinnacles of agate, your gates of carbuncles, and all your wall of precious stones.  
Is5413 All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children.  
Is5414 In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.  
Is5415 If anyone stirs up strife, it is not from me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you.  
Is5416 Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals and produces a weapon for its purpose. I have also created the ravager to destroy;  
Is5417 no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD and their vindication from me, declares the LORD.”  
Is5501 “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.  
Is5502 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.  
Is5503 Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.  
Is5504 Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples.  
Is5505 Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the LORD your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.  
Is5506 “Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;  
Is5507 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.  
Is5508 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.  
Is5509 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.  
Is5510 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,  
Is5511 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.  
Is5512 “For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.  
Is5513 Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”  
Is5601 Thus says the LORD: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my righteousness be revealed.  
Is5602 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”  
Is5603 Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will surely separate me from his people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”  
Is5604 For thus says the LORD: “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant,  
Is5605 I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.  
Is5606 “And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant—  
Is5607 these I will bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”  
Is5608 The Lord GOD, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares, “I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered.”  
Is5609 All you beasts of the field, come to devour— all you beasts in the forest.  
Is5610 His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.  
Is5611 The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. But they are shepherds who have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, one and all.  
Is5612 “Come,” they say, “let me get wine; let us fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be like this day, great beyond measure.”  
Is5701 The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;  
Is5702 he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.  
Is5703 But you, draw near, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.  
Is5704 Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit,  
Is5705 you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?  
Is5706 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; they, they, are your lot; to them you have poured out a drink offering, you have brought a grain offering. Shall I relent for these things?  
Is5707 On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifice.  
Is5708 Behind the door and the doorpost you have set up your memorial; for, deserting me, you have uncovered your bed, you have gone up to it, you have made it wide; and you have made a covenant for yourself with them, you have loved their bed, you have looked on nakedness.  
Is5709 You journeyed to the king with oil and multiplied your perfumes; you sent your envoys far off, and sent down even to Sheol.  
Is5710 You were wearied with the length of your way, but you did not say, “It is hopeless”; you found new life for your strength, and so you were not faint.  
Is5711 Whom did you dread and fear, so that you lied, and did not remember me, did not lay it to heart? Have I not held my peace, even for a long time, and you do not fear me?  
Is5712 I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, but they will not profit you.  
Is5713 When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you! The wind will carry them all off, a breath will take them away. But he who takes refuge in me shall possess the land and shall inherit my holy mountain.  
Is5714 And it shall be said, “Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstruction from my people’s way.”  
Is5715 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.  
Is5716 For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit would grow faint before me, and the breath of life that I made.  
Is5717 Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry, I struck him; I hid my face and was angry, but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.  
Is5718 I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,  
Is5719 creating the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to the far and to the near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal him.  
Is5720 But the wicked are like the tossing sea; for it cannot be quiet, and its waters toss up mire and dirt.  
Is5721 There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”  
Is5801 “Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins.  
Is5802 Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.  
Is5803 ‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers.  
Is5804 Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high.  
Is5805 Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the LORD?  
Is5806 “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?  
Is5807 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?  
Is5808 Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.  
Is5809 Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness,  
Is5810 if you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.  
Is5811 And the LORD will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.  
Is5812 And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in.  
Is5813 “If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the LORD honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;  
Is5814 then you shall take delight in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”  
Is5901 Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;  
Is5902 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.  
Is5903 For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness.  
Is5904 No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.  
Is5905 They hatch adders’ eggs; they weave the spider’s web; he who eats their eggs dies, and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.  
Is5906 Their webs will not serve as clothing; men will not cover themselves with what they make. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands.  
Is5907 Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.  
Is5908 The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their paths; they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.  
Is5909 Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.  
Is5910 We grope for the wall like the blind; we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men.  
Is5911 We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.  
Is5912 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:  
Is5913 transgressing, and denying the LORD, and turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.  
Is5914 Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.  
Is5915 Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.  
Is5916 He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to intercede; then his own arm brought him salvation, and his righteousness upheld him.  
Is5917 He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself in zeal as a cloak.  
Is5918 According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries, repayment to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render repayment.  
Is5919 So they shall fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come like a rushing stream, which the wind of the LORD drives.  
Is5920 “And a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the LORD.  
Is5921 “And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD: “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children’s offspring,” says the LORD, “from this time forth and forevermore.”  
Is6001 Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD has risen upon you.  
Is6002 For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you.  
Is6003 And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.  
Is6004 Lift up your eyes all around, and see; they all gather together, they come to you; your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be carried on the hip.  
Is6005 Then you shall see and be radiant; your heart shall thrill and exult, because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall come to you.  
Is6006 A multitude of camels shall cover you, the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all those from Sheba shall come. They shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall bring good news, the praises of the LORD.  
Is6007 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth shall minister to you; they shall come up with acceptance on my altar, and I will beautify my beautiful house.  
Is6008 Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows?  
Is6009 For the coastlands shall hope for me, the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your children from afar, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the LORD your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.  
Is6010 Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you; for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.  
Is6011 Your gates shall be open continually; day and night they shall not be shut, that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations, with their kings led in procession.  
Is6012 For the nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be utterly laid waste.  
Is6013 The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the pine, to beautify the place of my sanctuary, and I will make the place of my feet glorious.  
Is6014 The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending low to you, and all who despised you shall bow down at your feet; they shall call you the City of the LORD, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.  
Is6015 Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you majestic forever, a joy from age to age.  
Is6016 You shall suck the milk of nations; you shall nurse at the breast of kings; and you shall know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.  
Is6017 Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze, instead of stones, iron. I will make your overseers peace and your taskmasters righteousness.  
Is6018 Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.  
Is6019 The sun shall be no more your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give you light; but the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.  
Is6020 Your sun shall no more go down, nor your moon withdraw itself; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended.  
Is6021 Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.  
Is6022 The least one shall become a clan, and the smallest one a mighty nation; I am the LORD; in its time I will hasten it.  
Is6101 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;  
Is6102 to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;  
Is6103 to grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.  
Is6104 They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations.  
Is6105 Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks; foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;  
Is6106 but you shall be called the priests of the LORD; they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast.  
Is6107 Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion; instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot; therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion; they shall have everlasting joy.  
Is6108 For I the LORD love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.  
Is6109 Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the LORD has blessed.  
Is6110 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.  
Is6111 For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.  
Is6201 For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch.  
Is6202 The nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will give.  
Is6203 You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.  
Is6204 You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married.  
Is6205 For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.  
Is6206 On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the LORD in remembrance, take no rest,  
Is6207 and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth.  
Is6208 The LORD has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored;  
Is6209 but those who garner it shall eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”  
Is6210 Go through, go through the gates; prepare the way for the people; build up, build up the highway; clear it of stones; lift up a signal over the peoples.  
Is6211 Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, “Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.”  
Is6212 And they shall be called The Holy People, The Redeemed of the LORD; and you shall be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.  
Is6301 Who is this who comes from Edom, in crimsoned garments from Bozrah, he who is splendid in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.”  
Is6302 Why is your apparel red, and your garments like his who treads in the winepress?  
Is6303 “I have trodden the winepress alone, and from the peoples no one was with me; I trod them in my anger and trampled them in my wrath; their lifeblood spattered on my garments, and stained all my apparel.  
Is6304 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and my year of redemption had come.  
Is6305 I looked, but there was no one to help; I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold; so my own arm brought me salvation, and my wrath upheld me.  
Is6306 I trampled down the peoples in my anger; I made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”  
Is6307 I will recount the steadfast love of the LORD, the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has granted us, and the great goodness to the house of Israel that he has granted them according to his compassion, according to the abundance of his steadfast love.  
Is6308 For he said, “Surely they are my people, children who will not deal falsely.” And he became their Savior.  
Is6309 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.  
Is6310 But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.  
Is6311 Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses and his people. Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put in the midst of them his Holy Spirit,  
Is6312 who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name,  
Is6313 who led them through the depths? Like a horse in the desert, they did not stumble.  
Is6314 Like livestock that go down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD gave them rest. So you led your people, to make for yourself a glorious name.  
Is6315 Look down from heaven and see, from your holy and beautiful habitation. Where are your zeal and your might? The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion are held back from me.  
Is6316 For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.  
Is6317 O LORD, why do you make us wander from your ways and harden our heart, so that we fear you not? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.  
Is6318 Your holy people held possession for a little while; our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.  
Is6319 We have become like those over whom you have never ruled, like those who are not called by your name.  
Is6401 Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence—  
Is6402 as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at your presence!  
Is6403 When you did awesome things that we did not look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.  
Is6404 From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.  
Is6405 You meet him who joyfully works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?  
Is6406 We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.  
Is6407 There is no one who calls upon your name, who rouses himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.  
Is6408 But now, O LORD, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.  
Is6409 Be not so terribly angry, O LORD, and remember not iniquity forever. Behold, please look, we are all your people.  
Is6410 Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.  
Is6411 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.  
Is6412 Will you restrain yourself at these things, O LORD? Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?  
Is6501 I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, “Here I am, here I am,” to a nation that was not called by my name.  
Is6502 I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;  
Is6503 a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and making offerings on bricks;  
Is6504 who sit in tombs, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pig’s flesh, and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;  
Is6505 who say, “Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.” These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.  
Is6506 Behold, it is written before me: “I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will indeed repay into their lap  
Is6507 both your iniquities and your fathers’ iniquities together, says the LORD; because they made offerings on the mountains and insulted me on the hills, I will measure into their lap payment for their former deeds.”  
Is6508 Thus says the LORD: “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and they say, ‘Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,’ so I will do for my servants’ sake, and not destroy them all.  
Is6509 I will bring forth offspring from Jacob, and from Judah possessors of my mountains; my chosen shall possess it, and my servants shall dwell there.  
Is6510 Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down, for my people who have sought me.  
Is6511 But you who forsake the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny,  
Is6512 I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because, when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my eyes and chose what I did not delight in.”  
Is6513 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;  
Is6514 behold, my servants shall sing for gladness of heart, but you shall cry out for pain of heart and shall wail for breaking of spirit.  
Is6515 You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse, and the Lord GOD will put you to death, but his servants he will call by another name,  
Is6516 so that he who blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of truth, and he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten and are hidden from my eyes.  
Is6517 “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.  
Is6518 But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy, and her people to be a gladness.  
Is6519 I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress.  
Is6520 No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the young man shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.  
Is6521 They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.  
Is6522 They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.  
Is6523 They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the LORD, and their descendants with them.  
Is6524 Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear.  
Is6525 The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox, and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain,” says the LORD.  
Is6601 Thus says the LORD: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?  
Is6602 All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.  
Is6603 “He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck; he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig’s blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations;  
Is6604 I also will choose harsh treatment for them and bring their fears upon them, because when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, they did not listen; but they did what was evil in my eyes and chose that in which I did not delight.”  
Is6605 Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for my name’s sake have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy’; but it is they who shall be put to shame.  
Is6606 “The sound of an uproar from the city! A sound from the temple! The sound of the LORD, rendering recompense to his enemies!  
Is6607 “Before she was in labor she gave birth; before her pain came upon her she delivered a son.  
Is6608 Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children.  
Is6609 Shall I bring to the point of birth and not cause to bring forth?” says the LORD; “shall I, who cause to bring forth, shut the womb?” says your God.  
Is6610 “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her;  
Is6611 that you may nurse and be satisfied from her consoling breast; that you may drink deeply with delight from her glorious abundance.”  
Is6612 For thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip, and bounced upon her knees.  
Is6613 As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.  
Is6614 You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice; your bones shall flourish like the grass; and the hand of the LORD shall be known to his servants, and he shall show his indignation against his enemies.  
Is6615 “For behold, the LORD will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.  
Is6616 For by fire will the LORD enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the LORD shall be many.  
Is6617 “Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating pig’s flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares the LORD.  
Is6618 “For I know their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory,  
Is6619 and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands far away, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.  
Is6620 And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the LORD, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.  
Is6621 And some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says the LORD.  
Is6622 “For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make shall remain before me, says the LORD, so shall your offspring and your name remain.  
Is6623 From new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, declares the LORD.  
Is6624 “And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”  
Jr0101 The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,  
Jr0102 to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.  
Jr0103 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, and until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.  
Jr0104 Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,  
Jr0105 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”  
Jr0106 Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.”  
Jr0107 But the LORD said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.  
Jr0108 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the LORD.”  
Jr0109 Then the LORD put out his hand and touched my mouth. And the LORD said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.  
Jr0110 See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”  
Jr0111 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see an almond branch.”  
Jr0112 Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.”  
Jr0113 The word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a boiling pot, facing away from the north.”  
Jr0114 Then the LORD said to me, “Out of the north disaster shall be let loose upon all the inhabitants of the land.  
Jr0115 For behold, I am calling all the tribes of the kingdoms of the north, declares the LORD, and they shall come, and every one shall set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, against all its walls all around and against all the cities of Judah.  
Jr0116 And I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil in forsaking me. They have made offerings to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.  
Jr0117 But you, dress yourself for work; arise, and say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them.  
Jr0118 And I, behold, I make you this day a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.  
Jr0119 They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you, declares the LORD, to deliver you.”  
Jr0201 The word of the LORD came to me, saying,  
Jr0202 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the LORD, “I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.  
Jr0203 Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of his harvest. All who ate of it incurred guilt; disaster came upon them, declares the LORD.”  
Jr0204 Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the clans of the house of Israel.  
Jr0205 Thus says the LORD: “What wrong did your fathers find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthlessness, and became worthless?  
Jr0206 They did not say, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?’  
Jr0207 And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.  
Jr0208 The priests did not say, ‘Where is the LORD?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit.  
Jr0209 “Therefore I still contend with you, declares the LORD, and with your children’s children I will contend.  
Jr0210 For cross to the coasts of Cyprus and see, or send to Kedar and examine with care; see if there has been such a thing.  
Jr0211 Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.  
Jr0212 Be appalled, O heavens, at this; be shocked, be utterly desolate, declares the LORD,  
Jr0213 for my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.  
Jr0214 “Is Israel a slave? Is he a homeborn servant? Why then has he become a prey?  
Jr0215 The lions have roared against him; they have roared loudly. They have made his land a waste; his cities are in ruins, without inhabitant.  
Jr0216 Moreover, the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes have shaved the crown of your head.  
Jr0217 Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the LORD your God, when he led you in the way?  
Jr0218 And now what do you gain by going to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? Or what do you gain by going to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?  
Jr0219 Your evil will chastise you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the LORD your God; the fear of me is not in you, declares the Lord GOD of hosts.  
Jr0220 “For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, ‘I will not serve.’ Yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore.  
Jr0221 Yet I planted you a choice vine, wholly of pure seed. How then have you turned degenerate and become a wild vine?  
Jr0222 Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord GOD.  
Jr0223 How can you say, ‘I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals’? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done— a restless young camel running here and there,  
Jr0224 a wild donkey used to the wilderness, in her heat sniffing the wind! Who can restrain her lust? None who seek her need weary themselves; in her month they will find her.  
Jr0225 Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is hopeless, for I have loved foreigners, and after them I will go.’  
Jr0226 “As a thief is shamed when caught, so the house of Israel shall be shamed: they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets,  
Jr0227 who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say, ‘Arise and save us!’  
Jr0228 But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you, in your time of trouble; for as many as your cities are your gods, O Judah.  
Jr0229 “Why do you contend with me? You have all transgressed against me, declares the LORD.  
Jr0230 In vain have I struck your children; they took no correction; your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.  
Jr0231 And you, O generation, behold the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, ‘We are free, we will come no more to you’?  
Jr0232 Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.  
Jr0233 “How well you direct your course to seek love! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.  
Jr0234 Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the guiltless poor; you did not find them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things  
Jr0235 you say, ‘I am innocent; surely his anger has turned from me.’ Behold, I will bring you to judgment for saying, ‘I have not sinned.’  
Jr0236 How much you go about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.  
Jr0237 From it too you will come away with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.  
Jr0301 “If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the LORD.  
Jr0302 Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile whoredom.  
Jr0303 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed.  
Jr0304 Have you not just now called to me, ‘My father, you are the friend of my youth—  
Jr0305 will he be angry forever, will he be indignant to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could.”  
Jr0306 The LORD said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the whore?  
Jr0307 And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.  
Jr0308 She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.  
Jr0309 Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with stone and tree.  
Jr0310 Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the LORD.”  
Jr0311 And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.  
Jr0312 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, “‘Return, faithless Israel, declares the LORD. I will not look on you in anger, for I am merciful, declares the LORD; I will not be angry forever.  
Jr0313 Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the LORD your God and scattered your favors among foreigners under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, declares the LORD.  
Jr0314 Return, O faithless children, declares the LORD; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.  
Jr0315 “‘And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.  
Jr0316 And when you have multiplied and been fruitful in the land, in those days, declares the LORD, they shall no more say, “The ark of the covenant of the LORD.” It shall not come to mind or be remembered or missed; it shall not be made again.  
Jr0317 At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart.  
Jr0318 In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage.  
Jr0319 “‘I said, How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beautiful of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me.  
Jr0320 Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband, so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel, declares the LORD.’”  
Jr0321 A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel’s sons because they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the LORD their God.  
Jr0322 “Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness.” “Behold, we come to you, for you are the LORD our God.  
Jr0323 Truly the hills are a delusion, the orgies on the mountains. Truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.  
Jr0324 “But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.  
Jr0325 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”  
Jr0401 “If you return, O Israel, declares the LORD, to me you should return. If you remove your detestable things from my presence, and do not waver,  
Jr0402 and if you swear, ‘As the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.”  
Jr0403 For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.  
Jr0404 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD; remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.”  
Jr0405 Declare in Judah, and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say, “Blow the trumpet through the land; cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble, and let us go into the fortified cities!’  
Jr0406 Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, stay not, for I bring disaster from the north, and great destruction.  
Jr0407 A lion has gone up from his thicket, a destroyer of nations has set out; he has gone out from his place to make your land a waste; your cities will be ruins without inhabitant.  
Jr0408 For this put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned back from us.”  
Jr0409 “In that day, declares the LORD, courage shall fail both king and officials. The priests shall be appalled and the prophets astounded.”  
Jr0410 Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, surely you have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘It shall be well with you,’ whereas the sword has reached their very life.”  
Jr0411 At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A hot wind from the bare heights in the desert toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow or cleanse,  
Jr0412 a wind too full for this comes for me. Now it is I who speak in judgment upon them.”  
Jr0413 Behold, he comes up like clouds; his chariots like the whirlwind; his horses are swifter than eagles— woe to us, for we are ruined!  
Jr0414 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil, that you may be saved. How long shall your wicked thoughts lodge within you?  
Jr0415 For a voice declares from Dan and proclaims trouble from Mount Ephraim.  
Jr0416 Warn the nations that he is coming; announce to Jerusalem, “Besiegers come from a distant land; they shout against the cities of Judah.  
Jr0417 Like keepers of a field are they against her all around, because she has rebelled against me, declares the LORD.  
Jr0418 Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart.”  
Jr0419 My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.  
Jr0420 Crash follows hard on crash; the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are laid waste, my curtains in a moment.  
Jr0421 How long must I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?  
Jr0422 “For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not.”  
Jr0423 I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.  
Jr0424 I looked on the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all the hills moved to and fro.  
Jr0425 I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of the air had fled.  
Jr0426 I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the LORD, before his fierce anger.  
Jr0427 For thus says the LORD, “The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.  
Jr0428 “For this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above be dark; for I have spoken; I have purposed; I have not relented, nor will I turn back.”  
Jr0429 At the noise of horseman and archer every city takes to flight; they enter thickets; they climb among rocks; all the cities are forsaken, and no man dwells in them.  
Jr0430 And you, O desolate one, what do you mean that you dress in scarlet, that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, that you enlarge your eyes with paint? In vain you beautify yourself. Your lovers despise you; they seek your life.  
Jr0431 For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one giving birth to her first child, the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”  
Jr0501 Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look and take note! Search her squares to see if you can find a man, one who does justice and seeks truth, that I may pardon her.  
Jr0502 Though they say, “As the LORD lives,” yet they swear falsely.  
Jr0503 O LORD, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to repent.  
Jr0504 Then I said, “These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.  
Jr0505 I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.  
Jr0506 Therefore a lion from the forest shall strike them down; a wolf from the desert shall devastate them. A leopard is watching their cities; everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are great.  
Jr0507 “How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me and have sworn by those who are no gods. When I fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the houses of whores.  
Jr0508 They were well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.  
Jr0509 Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?  
Jr0510 “Go up through her vine rows and destroy, but make not a full end; strip away her branches, for they are not the LORD’s.  
Jr0511 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly treacherous to me, declares the LORD.  
Jr0512 They have spoken falsely of the LORD and have said, ‘He will do nothing; no disaster will come upon us, nor shall we see sword or famine.  
Jr0513 The prophets will become wind; the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them!’”  
Jr0514 Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts: “Because you have spoken this word, behold, I am making my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and the fire shall consume them.  
Jr0515 Behold, I am bringing against you a nation from afar, O house of Israel, declares the LORD. It is an enduring nation; it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, nor can you understand what they say.  
Jr0516 Their quiver is like an open tomb; they are all mighty warriors.  
Jr0517 They shall eat up your harvest and your food; they shall eat up your sons and your daughters; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; your fortified cities in which you trust they shall beat down with the sword.”  
Jr0518 “But even in those days, declares the LORD, I will not make a full end of you.  
Jr0519 And when your people say, ‘Why has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ you shall say to them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve foreigners in a land that is not yours.’”  
Jr0520 Declare this in the house of Jacob; proclaim it in Judah:  
Jr0521 “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.  
Jr0522 Do you not fear me? declares the LORD. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.  
Jr0523 But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.  
Jr0524 They do not say in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.’  
Jr0525 Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you.  
Jr0526 For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men.  
Jr0527 Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich;  
Jr0528 they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.  
Jr0529 Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?”  
Jr0530 An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land:  
Jr0531 the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?  
Jr0601 Flee for safety, O people of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms out of the north, and great destruction.  
Jr0602 The lovely and delicately bred I will destroy, the daughter of Zion.  
Jr0603 Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, each in his place.  
Jr0604 “Prepare war against her; arise, and let us attack at noon! Woe to us, for the day declines, for the shadows of evening lengthen!  
Jr0605 Arise, and let us attack by night and destroy her palaces!”  
Jr0606 For thus says the LORD of hosts: “Cut down her trees; cast up a siege mound against Jerusalem. This is the city that must be punished; there is nothing but oppression within her.  
Jr0607 As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.  
Jr0608 Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I turn from you in disgust, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”  
Jr0609 Thus says the LORD of hosts: “They shall glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; like a grape gatherer pass your hand again over its branches.”  
Jr0610 To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot listen; behold, the word of the LORD is to them an object of scorn; they take no pleasure in it.  
Jr0611 Therefore I am full of the wrath of the LORD; I am weary of holding it in. “Pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the gatherings of young men, also; both husband and wife shall be taken, the elderly and the very aged.  
Jr0612 Their houses shall be turned over to others, their fields and wives together, for I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.  
Jr0613 “For from the least to the greatest of them, everyone is greedy for unjust gain; and from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.  
Jr0614 They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.  
Jr0615 Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown,” says the LORD.  
Jr0616 Thus says the LORD: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’  
Jr0617 I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not pay attention.’  
Jr0618 Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.  
Jr0619 Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing disaster upon this people, the fruit of their devices, because they have not paid attention to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.  
Jr0620 What use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.  
Jr0621 Therefore thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will lay before this people stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble; fathers and sons together, neighbor and friend shall perish.’”  
Jr0622 Thus says the LORD: “Behold, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.  
Jr0623 They lay hold on bow and javelin; they are cruel and have no mercy; the sound of them is like the roaring sea; they ride on horses, set in array as a man for battle, against you, O daughter of Zion!”  
Jr0624 We have heard the report of it; our hands fall helpless; anguish has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in labor.  
Jr0625 Go not out into the field, nor walk on the road, for the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.  
Jr0626 O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.  
Jr0627 “I have made you a tester of metals among my people, that you may know and test their ways.  
Jr0628 They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.  
Jr0629 The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed.  
Jr0630 Rejected silver they are called, for the LORD has rejected them.”  
Jr0701 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:  
Jr0702 “Stand in the gate of the LORD’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all you men of Judah who enter these gates to worship the LORD.  
Jr0703 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place.  
Jr0704 Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’  
Jr0705 “For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another,  
Jr0706 if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm,  
Jr0707 then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.  
Jr0708 “Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail.  
Jr0709 Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known,  
Jr0710 and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?  
Jr0711 Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the LORD.  
Jr0712 Go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel.  
Jr0713 And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and when I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and when I called you, you did not answer,  
Jr0714 therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.  
Jr0715 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast out all your kinsmen, all the offspring of Ephraim.  
Jr0716 “As for you, do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not hear you.  
Jr0717 Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?  
Jr0718 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.  
Jr0719 Is it I whom they provoke? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves, to their own shame?  
Jr0720 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched.”  
Jr0721 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.  
Jr0722 For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.  
Jr0723 But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’  
Jr0724 But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.  
Jr0725 From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day.  
Jr0726 Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.  
Jr0727 “So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.  
Jr0728 And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.  
Jr0729 “‘Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.’  
Jr0730 “For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the LORD. They have set their detestable things in the house that is called by my name, to defile it.  
Jr0731 And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.  
Jr0732 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when it will no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth, because there is no room elsewhere.  
Jr0733 And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth, and none will frighten them away.  
Jr0734 And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste.  
Jr0801 “At that time, declares the LORD, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs.  
Jr0802 And they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. And they shall not be gathered or buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground.  
Jr0803 Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, declares the LORD of hosts.  
Jr0804 “You shall say to them, Thus says the LORD: When men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return?  
Jr0805 Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.  
Jr0806 I have paid attention and listened, but they have not spoken rightly; no man relents of his evil, saying, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle.  
Jr0807 Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the LORD.  
Jr0808 “How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us’? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.  
Jr0809 The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?  
Jr0810 Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest everyone is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.  
Jr0811 They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.  
Jr0812 Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the LORD.  
Jr0813 When I would gather them, declares the LORD, there are no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree; even the leaves are withered, and what I gave them has passed away from them.”  
Jr0814 Why do we sit still? Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.  
Jr0815 We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.  
Jr0816 “The snorting of their horses is heard from Dan; at the sound of the neighing of their stallions the whole land quakes. They come and devour the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it.  
Jr0817 For behold, I am sending among you serpents, adders that cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you,” declares the LORD.  
Jr0818 My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick within me.  
Jr0819 Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people from the length and breadth of the land: “Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images and with their foreign idols?”  
Jr0820 “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”  
Jr0821 For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded; I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.  
Jr0822 Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?  
Jr0901 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!  
Jr0902 Oh that I had in the desert a travelers’ lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.  
Jr0903 They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the LORD.  
Jr0904 Let everyone beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother, for every brother is a deceiver, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.  
Jr0905 Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.  
Jr0906 Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the LORD.  
Jr0907 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do, because of my people?  
Jr0908 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.  
Jr0909 Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?  
Jr0910 “I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled and are gone.  
Jr0911 I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”  
Jr0912 Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?  
Jr0913 And the LORD says: “Because they have forsaken my law that I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in accord with it,  
Jr0914 but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.  
Jr0915 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with bitter food, and give them poisonous water to drink.  
Jr0916 I will scatter them among the nations whom neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”  
Jr0917 Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skillful women to come;  
Jr0918 let them make haste and raise a wailing over us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water.  
Jr0919 For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed, because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”  
Jr0920 Hear, O women, the word of the LORD, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a lament, and each to her neighbor a dirge.  
Jr0921 For death has come up into our windows; it has entered our palaces, cutting off the children from the streets and the young men from the squares.  
Jr0922 Speak: “Thus declares the LORD, ‘The dead bodies of men shall fall like dung upon the open field, like sheaves after the reaper, and none shall gather them.’”  
Jr0923 Thus says the LORD: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,  
Jr0924 but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD.”  
Jr0925 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will punish all those who are circumcised merely in the flesh—  
Jr0926 Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all who dwell in the desert who cut the corners of their hair, for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”  
Jr1001 Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.  
Jr1002 Thus says the LORD: “Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them,  
Jr1003 for the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut down and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.  
Jr1004 They decorate it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so that it cannot move.  
Jr1005 Their idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, and they cannot speak; they have to be carried, for they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.”  
Jr1006 There is none like you, O LORD; you are great, and your name is great in might.  
Jr1007 Who would not fear you, O King of the nations? For this is your due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like you.  
Jr1008 They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!  
Jr1009 Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is violet and purple; they are all the work of skilled men.  
Jr1010 But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.  
Jr1011 Thus shall you say to them: “The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”  
Jr1012 It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.  
Jr1013 When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.  
Jr1014 Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.  
Jr1015 They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.  
Jr1016 Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the LORD of hosts is his name.  
Jr1017 Gather up your bundle from the ground, O you who dwell under siege!  
Jr1018 For thus says the LORD: “Behold, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress on them, that they may feel it.”  
Jr1019 Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is grievous. But I said, “Truly this is an affliction, and I must bear it.”  
Jr1020 My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken; my children have gone from me, and they are not; there is no one to spread my tent again and to set up my curtains.  
Jr1021 For the shepherds are stupid and do not inquire of the LORD; therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.  
Jr1022 A voice, a rumor! Behold, it comes!— a great commotion out of the north country to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals.  
Jr1023 I know, O LORD, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.  
Jr1024 Correct me, O LORD, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.  
Jr1025 Pour out your wrath on the nations that know you not, and on the peoples that call not on your name, for they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.  
Jr1101 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:  
Jr1102 “Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.  
Jr1103 You shall say to them, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not hear the words of this covenant  
Jr1104 that I commanded your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Listen to my voice, and do all that I command you. So shall you be my people, and I will be your God,  
Jr1105 that I may confirm the oath that I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day.” Then I answered, “So be it, LORD.”  
Jr1106 And the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: Hear the words of this covenant and do them.  
Jr1107 For I solemnly warned your fathers when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, warning them persistently, even to this day, saying, Obey my voice.  
Jr1108 Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.”  
Jr1109 Again the LORD said to me, “A conspiracy exists among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.  
Jr1110 They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I made with their fathers.  
Jr1111 Therefore, thus says the LORD, Behold, I am bringing disaster upon them that they cannot escape. Though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.  
Jr1112 Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they make offerings, but they cannot save them in the time of their trouble.  
Jr1113 For your gods have become as many as your cities, O Judah, and as many as the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to shame, altars to make offerings to Baal.  
Jr1114 “Therefore do not pray for this people, or lift up a cry or prayer on their behalf, for I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their trouble.  
Jr1115 What right has my beloved in my house, when she has done many vile deeds? Can even sacrificial flesh avert your doom? Can you then exult?  
Jr1116 The LORD once called you ‘a green olive tree, beautiful with good fruit.’ But with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and its branches will be consumed.  
Jr1117 The LORD of hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you, because of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done, provoking me to anger by making offerings to Baal.”  
Jr1118 The LORD made it known to me and I knew; then you showed me their deeds.  
Jr1119 But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.”  
Jr1120 But, O LORD of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.  
Jr1121 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, and say, “Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand”—  
Jr1122 therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: “Behold, I will punish them. The young men shall die by the sword, their sons and their daughters shall die by famine,  
Jr1123 and none of them shall be left. For I will bring disaster upon the men of Anathoth, the year of their punishment.”  
Jr1201 Righteous are you, O LORD, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?  
Jr1202 You plant them, and they take root; they grow and produce fruit; you are near in their mouth and far from their heart.  
Jr1203 But you, O LORD, know me; you see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.  
Jr1204 How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? For the evil of those who dwell in it the beasts and the birds are swept away, because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”  
Jr1205 “If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you, how will you compete with horses? And if in a safe land you are so trusting, what will you do in the thicket of the Jordan?  
Jr1206 For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you.”  
Jr1207 “I have forsaken my house; I have abandoned my heritage; I have given the beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies.  
Jr1208 My heritage has become to me like a lion in the forest; she has lifted up her voice against me; therefore I hate her.  
Jr1209 Is my heritage to me like a hyena’s lair? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.  
Jr1210 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled down my portion; they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.  
Jr1211 They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no man lays it to heart.  
Jr1212 Upon all the bare heights in the desert destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the land to the other; no flesh has peace.  
Jr1213 They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”  
Jr1214 Thus says the LORD concerning all my evil neighbors who touch the heritage that I have given my people Israel to inherit: “Behold, I will pluck them up from their land, and I will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.  
Jr1215 And after I have plucked them up, I will again have compassion on them, and I will bring them again each to his heritage and each to his land.  
Jr1216 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As the LORD lives,’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.  
Jr1217 But if any nation will not listen, then I will utterly pluck it up and destroy it, declares the LORD.”  
Jr1301 Thus says the LORD to me, “Go and buy a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, and do not dip it in water.”  
Jr1302 So I bought a loincloth according to the word of the LORD, and put it around my waist.  
Jr1303 And the word of the LORD came to me a second time,  
Jr1304 “Take the loincloth that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.”  
Jr1305 So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.  
Jr1306 And after many days the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”  
Jr1307 Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it. And behold, the loincloth was spoiled; it was good for nothing.  
Jr1308 Then the word of the LORD came to me:  
Jr1309 “Thus says the LORD: Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.  
Jr1310 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing.  
Jr1311 For as the loincloth clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, declares the LORD, that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.  
Jr1312 “You shall speak to them this word: ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, “Every jar shall be filled with wine.”’ And they will say to you, ‘Do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine?’  
Jr1313 Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.  
Jr1314 And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, declares the LORD. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.’”  
Jr1315 Hear and give ear; be not proud, for the LORD has spoken.  
Jr1316 Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the twilight mountains, and while you look for light he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.  
Jr1317 But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.  
Jr1318 Say to the king and the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head.”  
Jr1319 The cities of the Negeb are shut up, with none to open them; all Judah is taken into exile, wholly taken into exile.  
Jr1320 “Lift up your eyes and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?  
Jr1321 What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you? Will not pangs take hold of you like those of a woman in labor?  
Jr1322 And if you say in your heart, ‘Why have these things come upon me?’ it is for the greatness of your iniquity that your skirts are lifted up and you suffer violence.  
Jr1323 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.  
Jr1324 I will scatter you like chaff driven by the wind from the desert.  
Jr1325 This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you, declares the LORD, because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.  
Jr1326 I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.  
Jr1327 I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd whorings, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?”  
Jr1401 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:  
Jr1402 “Judah mourns, and her gates languish; her people lament on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.  
Jr1403 Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns; they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed and confounded and cover their heads.  
Jr1404 Because of the ground that is dismayed, since there is no rain on the land, the farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.  
Jr1405 Even the doe in the field forsakes her newborn fawn because there is no grass.  
Jr1406 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no vegetation.  
Jr1407 “Though our iniquities testify against us, act, O LORD, for your name’s sake; for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.  
Jr1408 O you hope of Israel, its savior in time of trouble, why should you be like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who turns aside to tarry for a night?  
Jr1409 Why should you be like a man confused, like a mighty warrior who cannot save? Yet you, O LORD, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; do not leave us.”  
Jr1410 Thus says the LORD concerning this people: “They have loved to wander thus; they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.”  
Jr1411 The LORD said to me: “Do not pray for the welfare of this people.  
Jr1412 Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.”  
Jr1413 Then I said: “Ah, Lord GOD, behold, the prophets say to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.’”  
Jr1414 And the LORD said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.  
Jr1415 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although I did not send them, and who say, ‘Sword and famine shall not come upon this land’: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.  
Jr1416 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their evil upon them.  
Jr1417 “You shall say to them this word: ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people is shattered with a great wound, with a very grievous blow.  
Jr1418 If I go out into the field, behold, those pierced by the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! For both prophet and priest ply their trade through the land and have no knowledge.’”  
Jr1419 Have you utterly rejected Judah? Does your soul loathe Zion? Why have you struck us down so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.  
Jr1420 We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against you.  
Jr1421 Do not spurn us, for your name’s sake; do not dishonor your glorious throne; remember and do not break your covenant with us.  
Jr1422 Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O LORD our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.  
Jr1501 Then the LORD said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!  
Jr1502 And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD: “‘Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence, and those who are for the sword, to the sword; those who are for famine, to famine, and those who are for captivity, to captivity.’  
Jr1503 I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the LORD: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.  
Jr1504 And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.  
Jr1505 “Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will grieve for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?  
Jr1506 You have rejected me, declares the LORD; you keep going backward, so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you— I am weary of relenting.  
Jr1507 I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways.  
Jr1508 I have made their widows more in number than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of young men a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon them suddenly.  
Jr1509 She who bore seven has grown feeble; she has fainted away; her sun went down while it was yet day; she has been shamed and disgraced. And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies, declares the LORD.”  
Jr1510 Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.  
Jr1511 The LORD said, “Have I not set you free for their good? Have I not pleaded for you before the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress?  
Jr1512 Can one break iron, iron from the north, and bronze?  
Jr1513 “Your wealth and your treasures I will give as spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory.  
Jr1514 I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.”  
Jr1515 O LORD, you know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In your forbearance take me not away; know that for your sake I bear reproach.  
Jr1516 Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O LORD, God of hosts.  
Jr1517 I did not sit in the company of revelers, nor did I rejoice; I sat alone, because your hand was upon me, for you had filled me with indignation.  
Jr1518 Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?  
Jr1519 Therefore thus says the LORD: “If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them.  
Jr1520 And I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail over you, for I am with you to save you and deliver you, declares the LORD.  
Jr1521 I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.”  
Jr1601 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Jr1602 “You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place.  
Jr1603 For thus says the LORD concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bore them and the fathers who fathered them in this land:  
Jr1604 They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.  
Jr1605 “For thus says the LORD: Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament or grieve for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, my steadfast love and mercy, declares the LORD.  
Jr1606 Both great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.  
Jr1607 No one shall break bread for the mourner, to comfort him for the dead, nor shall anyone give him the cup of consolation to drink for his father or his mother.  
Jr1608 You shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.  
Jr1609 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will silence in this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.  
Jr1610 “And when you tell this people all these words, and they say to you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’  
Jr1611 then you shall say to them: ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me, declares the LORD, and have gone after other gods and have served and worshiped them, and have forsaken me and have not kept my law,  
Jr1612 and because you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, every one of you follows his stubborn, evil will, refusing to listen to me.  
Jr1613 Therefore I will hurl you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’  
Jr1614 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when it shall no longer be said, ‘As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’  
Jr1615 but ‘As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.’ For I will bring them back to their own land that I gave to their fathers.  
Jr1616 “Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the LORD, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.  
Jr1617 For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.  
Jr1618 But first I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”  
Jr1619 O LORD, my strength and my stronghold, my refuge in the day of trouble, to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, worthless things in which there is no profit.  
Jr1620 Can man make for himself gods? Such are not gods!”  
Jr1621 “Therefore, behold, I will make them know, this once I will make them know my power and my might, and they shall know that my name is the LORD.”  
Jr1701 “The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars,  
Jr1702 while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills,  
Jr1703 on the mountains in the open country. Your wealth and all your treasures I will give for spoil as the price of your high places for sin throughout all your territory.  
Jr1704 You shall loosen your hand from your heritage that I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.”  
Jr1705 Thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD.  
Jr1706 He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.  
Jr1707 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD.  
Jr1708 He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”  
Jr1709 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?  
Jr1710 “I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”  
Jr1711 Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.  
Jr1712 A glorious throne set on high from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.  
Jr1713 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water.  
Jr1714 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.  
Jr1715 Behold, they say to me, “Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come!”  
Jr1716 I have not run away from being your shepherd, nor have I desired the day of sickness. You know what came out of my lips; it was before your face.  
Jr1717 Be not a terror to me; you are my refuge in the day of disaster.  
Jr1718 Let those be put to shame who persecute me, but let me not be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed; bring upon them the day of disaster; destroy them with double destruction!  
Jr1719 Thus said the LORD to me: “Go and stand in the People’s Gate, by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem,  
Jr1720 and say: ‘Hear the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by these gates.  
Jr1721 Thus says the LORD: Take care for the sake of your lives, and do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.  
Jr1722 And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.  
Jr1723 Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, that they might not hear and receive instruction.  
Jr1724 “‘But if you listen to me, declares the LORD, and bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it,  
Jr1725 then there shall enter by the gates of this city kings and princes who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their officials, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And this city shall be inhabited forever.  
Jr1726 And people shall come from the cities of Judah and the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, from the Shephelah, from the hill country, and from the Negeb, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of the LORD.  
Jr1727 But if you do not listen to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.’”  
Jr1801 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:  
Jr1802 “Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.”  
Jr1803 So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel.  
Jr1804 And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.  
Jr1805 Then the word of the LORD came to me:  
Jr1806 “O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the LORD. Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.  
Jr1807 If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy it,  
Jr1808 and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it.  
Jr1809 And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will build and plant it,  
Jr1810 and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it.  
Jr1811 Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the LORD, Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your deeds.’  
Jr1812 “But they say, ‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’  
Jr1813 “Therefore thus says the LORD: Ask among the nations, Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a very horrible thing.  
Jr1814 Does the snow of Lebanon leave the crags of Sirion? Do the mountain waters run dry, the cold flowing streams?  
Jr1815 But my people have forgotten me; they make offerings to false gods; they made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient roads, and to walk into side roads, not the highway,  
Jr1816 making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. Everyone who passes by it is horrified and shakes his head.  
Jr1817 Like the east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity.”  
Jr1818 Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.”  
Jr1819 Hear me, O LORD, and listen to the voice of my adversaries.  
Jr1820 Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.  
Jr1821 Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.  
Jr1822 May a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring the plunderer suddenly upon them! For they have dug a pit to take me and laid snares for my feet.  
Jr1823 Yet you, O LORD, know all their plotting to kill me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.  
Jr1901 Thus says the LORD, “Go, buy a potter’s earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests,  
Jr1902 and go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you.  
Jr1903 You shall say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.  
Jr1904 Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents,  
Jr1905 and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind—  
Jr1906 therefore, behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.  
Jr1907 And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, and will cause their people to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the earth.  
Jr1908 And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.  
Jr1909 And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and everyone shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.’  
Jr1910 “Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you,  
Jr1911 and shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, so that it can never be mended. Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.  
Jr1912 Thus will I do to this place, declares the LORD, and to its inhabitants, making this city like Topheth.  
Jr1913 The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah—all the houses on whose roofs offerings have been offered to all the host of heaven, and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods—shall be defiled like the place of Topheth.’”  
Jr1914 Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the LORD’s house and said to all the people:  
Jr1915 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have stiffened their neck, refusing to hear my words.”  
Jr2001 Now Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.  
Jr2002 Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the LORD.  
Jr2003 The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call your name Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side.  
Jr2004 For thus says the LORD: Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon. He shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall strike them down with the sword.  
Jr2005 Moreover, I will give all the wealth of the city, all its gains, all its prized belongings, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah into the hand of their enemies, who shall plunder them and seize them and carry them to Babylon.  
Jr2006 And you, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house, shall go into captivity. To Babylon you shall go, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.”  
Jr2007 O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; everyone mocks me.  
Jr2008 For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, “Violence and destruction!” For the word of the LORD has become for me a reproach and derision all day long.  
Jr2009 If I say, “I will not mention him, or speak any more in his name,” there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot.  
Jr2010 For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! “Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” say all my close friends, watching for my fall. “Perhaps he will be deceived; then we can overcome him and take our revenge on him.”  
Jr2011 But the LORD is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble; they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten.  
Jr2012 O LORD of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.  
Jr2013 Sing to the LORD; praise the LORD! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.  
Jr2014 Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed!  
Jr2015 Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, “A son is born to you,” making him very glad.  
Jr2016 Let that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without pity; let him hear a cry in the morning and an alarm at noon,  
Jr2017 because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.  
Jr2018 Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?  
Jr2101 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying,  
Jr2102 “Inquire of the LORD for us, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all his wonderful deeds and will make him withdraw from us.”  
Jr2103 Then Jeremiah said to them: “Thus you shall say to Zedekiah,  
Jr2104 ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls. And I will bring them together into the midst of this city.  
Jr2105 I myself will fight against you with outstretched hand and strong arm, in anger and in fury and in great wrath.  
Jr2106 And I will strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast. They shall die of a great pestilence.  
Jr2107 Afterward, declares the LORD, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people in this city who survive the pestilence, sword, and famine into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of their enemies, into the hand of those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword. He shall not pity them or spare them or have compassion.’  
Jr2108 “And to this people you shall say: ‘Thus says the LORD: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.  
Jr2109 He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you shall live and shall have his life as a prize of war.  
Jr2110 For I have set my face against this city for harm and not for good, declares the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.’  
Jr2111 “And to the house of the king of Judah say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD,  
Jr2112 O house of David! Thus says the LORD: “‘Execute justice in the morning, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it, because of your evil deeds.’”  
Jr2113 “Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, O rock of the plain, declares the LORD; you who say, ‘Who shall come down against us, or who shall enter our habitations?’  
Jr2114 I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares the LORD; I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is around her.”  
Jr2201 Thus says the LORD: “Go down to the house of the king of Judah and speak there this word,  
Jr2202 and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter these gates.  
Jr2203 Thus says the LORD: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.  
Jr2204 For if you will indeed obey this word, then there shall enter the gates of this house kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants and their people.  
Jr2205 But if you will not obey these words, I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.  
Jr2206 For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: “‘You are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, yet surely I will make you a desert, an uninhabited city.  
Jr2207 I will prepare destroyers against you, each with his weapons, and they shall cut down your choicest cedars and cast them into the fire.  
Jr2208 “‘And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, “Why has the LORD dealt thus with this great city?”  
Jr2209 And they will answer, “Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and worshiped other gods and served them.”’”  
Jr2210 Weep not for him who is dead, nor grieve for him, but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he shall return no more to see his native land.  
Jr2211 For thus says the LORD concerning Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went away from this place: “He shall return here no more,  
Jr2212 but in the place where they have carried him captive, there shall he die, and he shall never see this land again.”  
Jr2213 “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages,  
Jr2214 who says, ‘I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,’ who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion.  
Jr2215 Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him.  
Jr2216 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the LORD.  
Jr2217 But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.”  
Jr2218 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: “They shall not lament for him, saying, ‘Ah, my brother!’ or ‘Ah, sister!’ They shall not lament for him, saying, ‘Ah, lord!’ or ‘Ah, his majesty!’  
Jr2219 With the burial of a donkey he shall be buried, dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”  
Jr2220 “Go up to Lebanon, and cry out, and lift up your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers are destroyed.  
Jr2221 I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you have not obeyed my voice.  
Jr2222 The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and confounded because of all your evil.  
Jr2223 O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in labor!”  
Jr2224 “As I live, declares the LORD, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off  
Jr2225 and give you into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans.  
Jr2226 I will hurl you and the mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born, and there you shall die.  
Jr2227 But to the land to which they will long to return, there they shall not return.”  
Jr2228 Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot, a vessel no one cares for? Why are he and his children hurled and cast into a land that they do not know?  
Jr2229 O land, land, land, hear the word of the LORD!  
Jr2230 Thus says the LORD: “Write this man down as childless, a man who shall not succeed in his days, for none of his offspring shall succeed in sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah.”  
Jr2301 “Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” declares the LORD.  
Jr2302 Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: “You have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for your evil deeds, declares the LORD.  
Jr2303 Then I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and multiply.  
Jr2304 I will set shepherds over them who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing, declares the LORD.  
Jr2305 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.  
Jr2306 In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ‘The LORD is our righteousness.’  
Jr2307 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they shall no longer say, ‘As the LORD lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’  
Jr2308 but ‘As the LORD lives who brought up and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where he had driven them.’ Then they shall dwell in their own land.”  
Jr2309 Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD and because of his holy words.  
Jr2310 For the land is full of adulterers; because of the curse the land mourns, and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right.  
Jr2311 “Both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in my house I have found their evil, declares the LORD.  
Jr2312 Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery paths in the darkness, into which they shall be driven and fall, for I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment, declares the LORD.  
Jr2313 In the prophets of Samaria I saw an unsavory thing: they prophesied by Baal and led my people Israel astray.  
Jr2314 But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his evil; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”  
Jr2315 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with bitter food and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”  
Jr2316 Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you, filling you with vain hopes. They speak visions of their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.  
Jr2317 They say continually to those who despise the word of the LORD, ‘It shall be well with you’; and to everyone who stubbornly follows his own heart, they say, ‘No disaster shall come upon you.’”  
Jr2318 For who among them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and to hear his word, or who has paid attention to his word and listened?  
Jr2319 Behold, the storm of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.  
Jr2320 The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it clearly.  
Jr2321 “I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.  
Jr2322 But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds.  
Jr2323 “Am I a God at hand, declares the LORD, and not a God far away?  
Jr2324 Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD.  
Jr2325 I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’  
Jr2326 How long shall there be lies in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, and who prophesy the deceit of their own heart,  
Jr2327 who think to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell one another, even as their fathers forgot my name for Baal?  
Jr2328 Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? declares the LORD.  
Jr2329 Is not my word like fire, declares the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?  
Jr2330 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, declares the LORD, who steal my words from one another.  
Jr2331 Behold, I am against the prophets, declares the LORD, who use their tongues and declare, ‘declares the LORD.’  
Jr2332 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the LORD, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the LORD.  
Jr2333 “When one of this people, or a prophet or a priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you shall say to them, ‘You are the burden, and I will cast you off, declares the LORD.’  
Jr2334 And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, ‘The burden of the LORD,’ I will punish that man and his household.  
Jr2335 Thus shall you say, every one to his neighbor and every one to his brother, ‘What has the LORD answered?’ or ‘What has the LORD spoken?’  
Jr2336 But ‘the burden of the LORD’ you shall mention no more, for the burden is every man’s own word, and you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God.  
Jr2337 Thus you shall say to the prophet, ‘What has the LORD answered you?’ or ‘What has the LORD spoken?’  
Jr2338 But if you say, ‘The burden of the LORD,’ thus says the LORD, ‘Because you have said these words, “The burden of the LORD,” when I sent to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘The burden of the LORD,’”  
Jr2339 therefore, behold, I will surely lift you up and cast you away from my presence, you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.  
Jr2340 And I will bring upon you everlasting reproach and perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.’”  
Jr2401 After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, together with the officials of Judah, the craftsmen, and the metal workers, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me this vision: behold, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the LORD.  
Jr2402 One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.  
Jr2403 And the LORD said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”  
Jr2404 Then the word of the LORD came to me:  
Jr2405 “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.  
Jr2406 I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not pluck them up.  
Jr2407 I will give them a heart to know that I am the LORD, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.  
Jr2408 “But thus says the LORD: Like the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.  
Jr2409 I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.  
Jr2410 And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they shall be utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.”  
Jr2501 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon),  
Jr2502 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem:  
Jr2503 “For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened.  
Jr2504 You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the LORD persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets,  
Jr2505 saying, ‘Turn now, every one of you, from his evil way and evil deeds, and dwell upon the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever.  
Jr2506 Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, or provoke me to anger with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’  
Jr2507 Yet you have not listened to me, declares the LORD, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.  
Jr2508 “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words,  
Jr2509 behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the LORD, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.  
Jr2510 Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp.  
Jr2511 This whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.  
Jr2512 Then after seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the LORD, making the land an everlasting waste.  
Jr2513 I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written in this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.  
Jr2514 For many nations and great kings shall make slaves even of them, and I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”  
Jr2515 Thus the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.  
Jr2516 They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of the sword that I am sending among them.”  
Jr2517 So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand, and made all the nations to whom the LORD sent me drink it:  
Jr2518 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day;  
Jr2519 Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, all his people,  
Jr2520 and all the mixed tribes among them; all the kings of the land of Uz and all the kings of the land of the Philistines (Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);  
Jr2521 Edom, Moab, and the sons of Ammon;  
Jr2522 all the kings of Tyre, all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland across the sea;  
Jr2523 Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;  
Jr2524 all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the mixed tribes who dwell in the desert;  
Jr2525 all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media;  
Jr2526 all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of Babylon shall drink.  
Jr2527 “Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword that I am sending among you.’  
Jr2528 “And if they refuse to accept the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: You must drink!  
Jr2529 For behold, I begin to work disaster at the city that is called by my name, and shall you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of hosts.’  
Jr2530 “You, therefore, shall prophesy against them all these words, and say to them: “‘The LORD will roar from on high, and from his holy habitation utter his voice; he will roar mightily against his fold, and shout, like those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.  
Jr2531 The clamor will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against the nations; he is entering into judgment with all flesh, and the wicked he will put to the sword, declares the LORD.’  
Jr2532 “Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, disaster is going forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirring from the farthest parts of the earth!  
Jr2533 “And those pierced by the LORD on that day shall extend from one end of the earth to the other. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.  
Jr2534 “Wail, you shepherds, and cry out, and roll in ashes, you lords of the flock, for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come, and you shall fall like a choice vessel.  
Jr2535 No refuge will remain for the shepherds, nor escape for the lords of the flock.  
Jr2536 A voice—the cry of the shepherds, and the wail of the lords of the flock! For the LORD is laying waste their pasture,  
Jr2537 and the peaceful folds are devastated because of the fierce anger of the LORD.  
Jr2538 Like a lion he has left his lair, for their land has become a waste because of the sword of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.”  
Jr2601 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the LORD:  
Jr2602 “Thus says the LORD: Stand in the court of the LORD’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah that come to worship in the house of the LORD all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not hold back a word.  
Jr2603 It may be they will listen, and every one turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the disaster that I intend to do to them because of their evil deeds.  
Jr2604 You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set before you,  
Jr2605 and to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you urgently, though you have not listened,  
Jr2606 then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.’”  
Jr2607 The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.  
Jr2608 And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, “You shall die!  
Jr2609 Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.  
Jr2610 When the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to the house of the LORD and took their seat in the entry of the New Gate of the house of the LORD.  
Jr2611 Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, “This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”  
Jr2612 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the officials and all the people, saying, “The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the words you have heard.  
Jr2613 Now therefore mend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God, and the LORD will relent of the disaster that he has pronounced against you.  
Jr2614 But as for me, behold, I am in your hands. Do with me as seems good and right to you.  
Jr2615 Only know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and its inhabitants, for in truth the LORD sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.”  
Jr2616 Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.”  
Jr2617 And certain of the elders of the land arose and spoke to all the assembled people, saying,  
Jr2618 “Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “‘Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.’  
Jr2619 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD and entreat the favor of the LORD, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster that he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great disaster upon ourselves.”  
Jr2620 There was another man who prophesied in the name of the LORD, Uriah the son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land in words like those of Jeremiah.  
Jr2621 And when King Jehoiakim, with all his warriors and all the officials, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death. But when Uriah heard of it, he was afraid and fled and escaped to Egypt.  
Jr2622 Then King Jehoiakim sent to Egypt certain men, Elnathan the son of Achbor and others with him,  
Jr2623 and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who struck him down with the sword and dumped his dead body into the burial place of the common people.  
Jr2624 But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah so that he was not given over to the people to be put to death.  
Jr2701 In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD.  
Jr2702 Thus the LORD said to me: “Make yourself straps and yoke-bars, and put them on your neck.  
Jr2703 Send word to the king of Edom, the king of Moab, the king of the sons of Ammon, the king of Tyre, and the king of Sidon by the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.  
Jr2704 Give them this charge for their masters: ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: This is what you shall say to your masters:  
Jr2705 “It is I who by my great power and my outstretched arm have made the earth, with the men and animals that are on the earth, and I give it to whomever it seems right to me.  
Jr2706 Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and I have given him also the beasts of the field to serve him.  
Jr2707 All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings shall make him their slave.  
Jr2708 But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, declares the LORD, until I have consumed it by his hand.  
Jr2709 So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your fortune-tellers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon.’  
Jr2710 For it is a lie that they are prophesying to you, with the result that you will be removed far from your land, and I will drive you out, and you will perish.  
Jr2711 But any nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave on its own land, to work it and dwell there, declares the LORD.”’”  
Jr2712 To Zedekiah king of Judah I spoke in like manner: “Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people and live.  
Jr2713 Why will you and your people die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, as the LORD has spoken concerning any nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?  
Jr2714 Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are saying to you, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon,’ for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you.  
Jr2715 I have not sent them, declares the LORD, but they are prophesying falsely in my name, with the result that I will drive you out and you will perish, you and the prophets who are prophesying to you.”  
Jr2716 Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says the LORD: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the LORD’s house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon,’ for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you.  
Jr2717 Do not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a desolation?  
Jr2718 If they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, then let them intercede with the LORD of hosts, that the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon.  
Jr2719 For thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, the sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,  
Jr2720 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take away, when he took into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem—  
Jr2721 thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:  
Jr2722 They shall be carried to Babylon and remain there until the day when I visit them, declares the LORD. Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.”  
Jr2801 In that same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fifth month of the fourth year, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying,  
Jr2802 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.  
Jr2803 Within two years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the LORD’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.  
Jr2804 I will also bring back to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon, declares the LORD, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.”  
Jr2805 Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Hananiah the prophet in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the LORD,  
Jr2806 and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the LORD do so; may the LORD make the words that you have prophesied come true, and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the LORD, and all the exiles.  
Jr2807 Yet hear now this word that I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people.  
Jr2808 The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms.  
Jr2809 As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes to pass, then it will be known that the LORD has truly sent the prophet.”  
Jr2810 Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke-bars from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke them.  
Jr2811 And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “Thus says the LORD: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations within two years.” But Jeremiah the prophet went his way.  
Jr2812 Sometime after the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke-bars from off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:  
Jr2813 “Go, tell Hananiah, ‘Thus says the LORD: You have broken wooden bars, but you have made in their place bars of iron.  
Jr2814 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put upon the neck of all these nations an iron yoke to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, for I have given to him even the beasts of the field.’”  
Jr2815 And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.  
Jr2816 Therefore thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will remove you from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, because you have uttered rebellion against the LORD.’”  
Jr2817 In that same year, in the seventh month, the prophet Hananiah died.  
Jr2901 These are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders of the exiles, and to the priests, the prophets, and all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.  
Jr2902 This was after King Jeconiah and the queen mother, the eunuchs, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metal workers had departed from Jerusalem.  
Jr2903 The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. It said:  
Jr2904 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:  
Jr2905 Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce.  
Jr2906 Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.  
Jr2907 But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.  
Jr2908 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are among you deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams that they dream,  
Jr2909 for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you in my name; I did not send them, declares the LORD.  
Jr2910 “For thus says the LORD: When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place.  
Jr2911 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.  
Jr2912 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.  
Jr2913 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.  
Jr2914 I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.  
Jr2915 “Because you have said, ‘The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,’  
Jr2916 thus says the LORD concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your kinsmen who did not go out with you into exile:  
Jr2917 ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, behold, I am sending on them sword, famine, and pestilence, and I will make them like vile figs that are so rotten they cannot be eaten.  
Jr2918 I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, a terror, a hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,  
Jr2919 because they did not pay attention to my words, declares the LORD, that I persistently sent to you by my servants the prophets, but you would not listen, declares the LORD.’  
Jr2920 Hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles whom I sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon:  
Jr2921 ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall strike them down before your eyes.  
Jr2922 Because of them this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: “The LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,”  
Jr2923 because they have done an outrageous thing in Israel, they have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and they have spoken in my name lying words that I did not command them. I am the one who knows, and I am witness, declares the LORD.’”  
Jr2924 To Shemaiah of Nehelam you shall say:  
Jr2925 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You have sent letters in your name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,  
Jr2926 ‘The LORD has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to have charge in the house of the LORD over every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and neck irons.  
Jr2927 Now why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth who is prophesying to you?  
Jr2928 For he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, “Your exile will be long; build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their produce.”’”  
Jr2929 Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet.  
Jr2930 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:  
Jr2931 “Send to all the exiles, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD concerning Shemaiah of Nehelam: Because Shemaiah had prophesied to you when I did not send him, and has made you trust in a lie,  
Jr2932 therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah of Nehelam and his descendants. He shall not have anyone living among this people, and he shall not see the good that I will do to my people, declares the LORD, for he has spoken rebellion against the LORD.’”  
Jr3001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:  
Jr3002 “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.  
Jr3003 For behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore the fortunes of my people, Israel and Judah, says the LORD, and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall take possession of it.”  
Jr3004 These are the words that the LORD spoke concerning Israel and Judah:  
Jr3005 “Thus says the LORD: We have heard a cry of panic, of terror, and no peace.  
Jr3006 Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale?  
Jr3007 Alas! That day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it.  
Jr3008 “And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and I will burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more make a servant of him.  
Jr3009 But they shall serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.  
Jr3010 “Then fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, nor be dismayed, O Israel; for behold, I will save you from far away, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease, and none shall make him afraid.  
Jr3011 For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.  
Jr3012 “For thus says the LORD: Your hurt is incurable, and your wound is grievous.  
Jr3013 There is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you.  
Jr3014 All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant.  
Jr3015 Why do you cry out over your hurt? Your pain is incurable. Because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant, I have done these things to you.  
Jr3016 Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured, and all your foes, every one of them, shall go into captivity; those who plunder you shall be plundered, and all who prey on you I will make a prey.  
Jr3017 For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the LORD, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’  
Jr3018 “Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have compassion on his dwellings; the city shall be rebuilt on its mound, and the palace shall stand where it used to be.  
Jr3019 Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving, and the voices of those who celebrate. I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will make them honored, and they shall not be small.  
Jr3020 Their children shall be as they were of old, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all who oppress them.  
Jr3021 Their prince shall be one of themselves; their ruler shall come out from their midst; I will make him draw near, and he shall approach me, for who would dare of himself to approach me? declares the LORD.  
Jr3022 And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.”  
Jr3023 Behold the storm of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.  
Jr3024 The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intentions of his mind. In the latter days you will understand this.  
Jr3101 “At that time, declares the LORD, I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they shall be my people.”  
Jr3102 Thus says the LORD: “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest,  
Jr3103 the LORD appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.  
Jr3104 Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.  
Jr3105 Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant and shall enjoy the fruit.  
Jr3106 For there shall be a day when watchmen will call in the hill country of Ephraim: ‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God.’”  
Jr3107 For thus says the LORD: “Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, and say, ‘O LORD, save your people, the remnant of Israel.’  
Jr3108 Behold, I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, the pregnant woman and she who is in labor, together; a great company, they shall return here.  
Jr3109 With weeping they shall come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.  
Jr3110 “Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands far away; say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’  
Jr3111 For the LORD has ransomed Jacob and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him.  
Jr3112 They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion, and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the LORD, over the grain, the wine, and the oil, and over the young of the flock and the herd; their life shall be like a watered garden, and they shall languish no more.  
Jr3113 Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.  
Jr3114 I will feast the soul of the priests with abundance, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, declares the LORD.”  
Jr3115 Thus says the LORD: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”  
Jr3116 Thus says the LORD: “Keep your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for there is a reward for your work, declares the LORD, and they shall come back from the land of the enemy.  
Jr3117 There is hope for your future, declares the LORD, and your children shall come back to their own country.  
Jr3118 I have heard Ephraim grieving, ‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the LORD my God.  
Jr3119 For after I had turned away, I relented, and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’  
Jr3120 Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the LORD.  
Jr3121 “Set up road markers for yourself; make yourself guideposts; consider well the highway, the road by which you went. Return, O virgin Israel, return to these your cities.  
Jr3122 How long will you waver, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing on the earth: a woman encircles a man.”  
Jr3123 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I restore their fortunes: “‘The LORD bless you, O habitation of righteousness, O holy hill!’  
Jr3124 And Judah and all its cities shall dwell there together, and the farmers and those who wander with their flocks.  
Jr3125 For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.”  
Jr3126 At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.  
Jr3127 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.  
Jr3128 And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares the LORD.  
Jr3129 In those days they shall no longer say: “‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’  
Jr3130 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.  
Jr3131 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,  
Jr3132 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD.  
Jr3133 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  
Jr3134 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”  
Jr3135 Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the LORD of hosts is his name:  
Jr3136 “If this fixed order departs from before me, declares the LORD, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever.”  
Jr3137 Thus says the LORD: “If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done, declares the LORD.”  
Jr3138 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when the city shall be rebuilt for the LORD from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate.  
Jr3139 And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah.  
Jr3140 The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be sacred to the LORD. It shall not be plucked up or overthrown anymore forever.”  
Jr3201 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.  
Jr3202 At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah.  
Jr3203 For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying, “Why do you prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall capture it;  
Jr3204 Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye.  
Jr3205 And he shall take Zedekiah to Babylon, and there he shall remain until I visit him, declares the LORD. Though you fight against the Chaldeans, you shall not succeed’?”  
Jr3206 Jeremiah said, “The word of the LORD came to me:  
Jr3207 Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, ‘Buy my field that is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours.’  
Jr3208 Then Hanamel my cousin came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the LORD, and said to me, ‘Buy my field that is at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.  
Jr3209 “And I bought the field at Anathoth from Hanamel my cousin, and weighed out the money to him, seventeen shekels of silver.  
Jr3210 I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the money on scales.  
Jr3211 Then I took the sealed deed of purchase, containing the terms and conditions and the open copy.  
Jr3212 And I gave the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my cousin, in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of purchase, and in the presence of all the Judeans who were sitting in the court of the guard.  
Jr3213 I charged Baruch in their presence, saying,  
Jr3214 ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware vessel, that they may last for a long time.  
Jr3215 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land.’  
Jr3216 “After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD, saying:  
Jr3217 ‘Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.  
Jr3218 You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the LORD of hosts,  
Jr3219 great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man, rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.  
Jr3220 You have shown signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and to this day in Israel and among all mankind, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day.  
Jr3221 You brought your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and outstretched arm, and with great terror.  
Jr3222 And you gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey.  
Jr3223 And they entered and took possession of it. But they did not obey your voice or walk in your law. They did nothing of all you commanded them to do. Therefore you have made all this disaster come upon them.  
Jr3224 Behold, the siege mounds have come up to the city to take it, and because of sword and famine and pestilence the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you spoke has come to pass, and behold, you see it.  
Jr3225 Yet you, O Lord GOD, have said to me, “Buy the field for money and get witnesses”—though the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.’”  
Jr3226 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:  
Jr3227 “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?  
Jr3228 Therefore, thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall capture it.  
Jr3229 The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city shall come and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs offerings have been made to Baal and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods, to provoke me to anger.  
Jr3230 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth. The children of Israel have done nothing but provoke me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.  
Jr3231 This city has aroused my anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, so that I will remove it from my sight  
Jr3232 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger—their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.  
Jr3233 They have turned to me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them persistently, they have not listened to receive instruction.  
Jr3234 They set up their abominations in the house that is called by my name, to defile it.  
Jr3235 They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.  
Jr3236 “Now therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, ‘It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by pestilence’:  
Jr3237 Behold, I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great indignation. I will bring them back to this place, and I will make them dwell in safety.  
Jr3238 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.  
Jr3239 I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.  
Jr3240 I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.  
Jr3241 I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.  
Jr3242 “For thus says the LORD: Just as I have brought all this great disaster upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise them.  
Jr3243 Fields shall be bought in this land of which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’  
Jr3244 Fields shall be bought for money, and deeds shall be signed and sealed and witnessed, in the land of Benjamin, in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb; for I will restore their fortunes, declares the LORD.”  
Jr3301 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah a second time, while he was still shut up in the court of the guard:  
Jr3302 “Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it to establish it—the LORD is his name:  
Jr3303 Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.  
Jr3304 For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah that were torn down to make a defense against the siege mounds and against the sword:  
Jr3305 They are coming in to fight against the Chaldeans and to fill them with the dead bodies of men whom I shall strike down in my anger and my wrath, for I have hidden my face from this city because of all their evil.  
Jr3306 Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.  
Jr3307 I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and rebuild them as they were at first.  
Jr3308 I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me.  
Jr3309 And this city shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth who shall hear of all the good that I do for them. They shall fear and tremble because of all the good and all the prosperity I provide for it.  
Jr3310 “Thus says the LORD: In this place of which you say, ‘It is a waste without man or beast,’ in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man or inhabitant or beast, there shall be heard again  
Jr3311 the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the LORD: “‘Give thanks to the LORD of hosts, for the LORD is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!’ For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the LORD.  
Jr3312 “Thus says the LORD of hosts: In this place that is waste, without man or beast, and in all of its cities, there shall again be habitations of shepherds resting their flocks.  
Jr3313 In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negeb, in the land of Benjamin, the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, flocks shall again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the LORD.  
Jr3314 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.  
Jr3315 In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.  
Jr3316 In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: ‘The LORD is our righteousness.’  
Jr3317 “For thus says the LORD: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,  
Jr3318 and the Levitical priests shall never lack a man in my presence to offer burnt offerings, to burn grain offerings, and to make sacrifices forever.”  
Jr3319 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:  
Jr3320 “Thus says the LORD: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night, so that day and night will not come at their appointed time,  
Jr3321 then also my covenant with David my servant may be broken, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with the Levitical priests my ministers.  
Jr3322 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.”  
Jr3323 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:  
Jr3324 “Have you not observed that these people are saying, ‘The LORD has rejected the two clans that he chose’? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.  
Jr3325 Thus says the LORD: If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,  
Jr3326 then I will reject the offspring of Jacob and David my servant and will not choose one of his offspring to rule over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy on them.”  
Jr3401 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms of the earth under his dominion and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and all of its cities:  
Jr3402 “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.  
Jr3403 You shall not escape from his hand but shall surely be captured and delivered into his hand. You shall see the king of Babylon eye to eye and speak with him face to face. And you shall go to Babylon.’  
Jr3404 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah! Thus says the LORD concerning you: ‘You shall not die by the sword.  
Jr3405 You shall die in peace. And as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so people shall burn spices for you and lament for you, saying, “Alas, lord!”’ For I have spoken the word, declares the LORD.”  
Jr3406 Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah, in Jerusalem,  
Jr3407 when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left, Lachish and Azekah, for these were the only fortified cities of Judah that remained.  
Jr3408 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them,  
Jr3409 that everyone should set free his Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that no one should enslave a Jew, his brother.  
Jr3410 And they obeyed, all the officials and all the people who had entered into the covenant that everyone would set free his slave, male or female, so that they would not be enslaved again. They obeyed and set them free.  
Jr3411 But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves they had set free, and brought them into subjection as slaves.  
Jr3412 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD:  
Jr3413 “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I myself made a covenant with your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying,  
Jr3414 ‘At the end of seven years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has served you six years; you must set him free from your service.’ But your fathers did not listen to me or incline their ears to me.  
Jr3415 You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes by proclaiming liberty, each to his neighbor, and you made a covenant before me in the house that is called by my name,  
Jr3416 but then you turned around and profaned my name when each of you took back his male and female slaves, whom you had set free according to their desire, and you brought them into subjection to be your slaves.  
Jr3417 “Therefore, thus says the LORD: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim to you liberty to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the LORD. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.  
Jr3418 And the men who transgressed my covenant and did not keep the terms of the covenant that they made before me, I will make them like the calf that they cut in two and passed between its parts—  
Jr3419 the officials of Judah, the officials of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf.  
Jr3420 And I will give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives. Their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.  
Jr3421 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their lives, into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon which has withdrawn from you.  
Jr3422 Behold, I will command, declares the LORD, and will bring them back to this city. And they will fight against it and take it and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.”  
Jr3501 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:  
Jr3502 “Go to the house of the Rechabites and speak with them and bring them to the house of the LORD, into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink.”  
Jr3503 So I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, son of Habazziniah and his brothers and all his sons and the whole house of the Rechabites.  
Jr3504 I brought them to the house of the LORD into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the chamber of the officials, above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, keeper of the threshold.  
Jr3505 Then I set before the Rechabites pitchers full of wine, and cups, and I said to them, “Drink wine.”  
Jr3506 But they answered, “We will drink no wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, ‘You shall not drink wine, neither you nor your sons forever.  
Jr3507 You shall not build a house; you shall not sow seed; you shall not plant or have a vineyard; but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.’  
Jr3508 We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters,  
Jr3509 and not to build houses to dwell in. We have no vineyard or field or seed,  
Jr3510 but we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done all that Jonadab our father commanded us.  
Jr3511 But when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, ‘Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans and the army of the Syrians.’ So we are living in Jerusalem.”  
Jr3512 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:  
Jr3513 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Go and say to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not receive instruction and listen to my words? declares the LORD.  
Jr3514 The command that Jonadab the son of Rechab gave to his sons, to drink no wine, has been kept, and they drink none to this day, for they have obeyed their father’s command. I have spoken to you persistently, but you have not listened to me.  
Jr3515 I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending them persistently, saying, ‘Turn now every one of you from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and do not go after other gods to serve them, and then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to you and your fathers.’ But you did not incline your ear or listen to me.  
Jr3516 The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the command that their father gave them, but this people has not obeyed me.  
Jr3517 Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the disaster that I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them and they have not listened, I have called to them and they have not answered.”  
Jr3518 But to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said, “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done all that he commanded you,  
Jr3519 therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall never lack a man to stand before me.”  
Jr3601 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:  
Jr3602 “Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today.  
Jr3603 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the disaster that I intend to do to them, so that every one may turn from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”  
Jr3604 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD that he had spoken to him.  
Jr3605 And Jeremiah ordered Baruch, saying, “I am banned from going to the house of the LORD,  
Jr3606 so you are to go, and on a day of fasting in the hearing of all the people in the LORD’s house you shall read the words of the LORD from the scroll that you have written at my dictation. You shall read them also in the hearing of all the men of Judah who come out of their cities.  
Jr3607 It may be that their plea for mercy will come before the LORD, and that every one will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people.”  
Jr3608 And Baruch the son of Neriah did all that Jeremiah the prophet ordered him about reading from the scroll the words of the LORD in the LORD’s house.  
Jr3609 In the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before the LORD.  
Jr3610 Then, in the hearing of all the people, Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the scroll, in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the secretary, which was in the upper court, at the entry of the New Gate of the LORD’s house.  
Jr3611 When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD from the scroll,  
Jr3612 he went down to the king’s house, into the secretary’s chamber, and all the officials were sitting there: Elishama the secretary, Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, Elnathan the son of Achbor, Gemariah the son of Shaphan, Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the officials.  
Jr3613 And Micaiah told them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the scroll in the hearing of the people.  
Jr3614 Then all the officials sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, son of Shelemiah, son of Cushi, to say to Baruch, “Take in your hand the scroll that you read in the hearing of the people, and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and came to them.  
Jr3615 And they said to him, “Sit down and read it.” So Baruch read it to them.  
Jr3616 When they heard all the words, they turned one to another in fear. And they said to Baruch, “We must report all these words to the king.”  
Jr3617 Then they asked Baruch, “Tell us, please, how did you write all these words? Was it at his dictation?”  
Jr3618 Baruch answered them, “He dictated all these words to me, while I wrote them with ink on the scroll.”  
Jr3619 Then the officials said to Baruch, “Go and hide, you and Jeremiah, and let no one know where you are.”  
Jr3620 So they went into the court to the king, having put the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the secretary, and they reported all the words to the king.  
Jr3621 Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the secretary. And Jehudi read it to the king and all the officials who stood beside the king.  
Jr3622 It was the ninth month, and the king was sitting in the winter house, and there was a fire burning in the fire pot before him.  
Jr3623 As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a knife and throw them into the fire in the fire pot, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the fire pot.  
Jr3624 Yet neither the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words was afraid, nor did they tear their garments.  
Jr3625 Even when Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.  
Jr3626 And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son and Seraiah the son of Azriel and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet, but the LORD hid them.  
Jr3627 Now after the king had burned the scroll with the words that Baruch wrote at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:  
Jr3628 “Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.  
Jr3629 And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Thus says the LORD, You have burned this scroll, saying, “Why have you written in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cut off from it man and beast?”  
Jr3630 Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and the frost by night.  
Jr3631 And I will punish him and his offspring and his servants for their iniquity. I will bring upon them and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem and upon the people of Judah all the disaster that I have pronounced against them, but they would not hear.’”  
Jr3632 Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.  
Jr3701 Zedekiah the son of Josiah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah, reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim.  
Jr3702 But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the LORD that he spoke through Jeremiah the prophet.  
Jr3703 King Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “Please pray for us to the LORD our God.”  
Jr3704 Now Jeremiah was still going in and out among the people, for he had not yet been put in prison.  
Jr3705 The army of Pharaoh had come out of Egypt. And when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news about them, they withdrew from Jerusalem.  
Jr3706 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet:  
Jr3707 “Thus says the LORD, God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the king of Judah who sent you to me to inquire of me, ‘Behold, Pharaoh’s army that came to help you is about to return to Egypt, to its own land.  
Jr3708 And the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city. They shall capture it and burn it with fire.  
Jr3709 Thus says the LORD, Do not deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely go away from us,” for they will not go away.  
Jr3710 For even if you should defeat the whole army of Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and there remained of them only wounded men, every man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.’”  
Jr3711 Now when the Chaldean army had withdrawn from Jerusalem at the approach of Pharaoh’s army,  
Jr3712 Jeremiah set out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to receive his portion there among the people.  
Jr3713 When he was at the Benjamin Gate, a sentry there named Irijah the son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans.”  
Jr3714 And Jeremiah said, “It is a lie; I am not deserting to the Chaldeans.” But Irijah would not listen to him, and seized Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.  
Jr3715 And the officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison.  
Jr3716 When Jeremiah had come to the dungeon cells and remained there many days,  
Jr3717 King Zedekiah sent for him and received him. The king questioned him secretly in his house and said, “Is there any word from the LORD?” Jeremiah said, “There is.” Then he said, “You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”  
Jr3718 Jeremiah also said to King Zedekiah, “What wrong have I done to you or your servants or this people, that you have put me in prison?  
Jr3719 Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land’?  
Jr3720 Now hear, please, O my lord the king: let my humble plea come before you and do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, lest I die there.”  
Jr3721 So King Zedekiah gave orders, and they committed Jeremiah to the court of the guard. And a loaf of bread was given him daily from the bakers’ street, until all the bread of the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.  
Jr3801 Now Shephatiah the son of Mattan, Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchiah heard the words that Jeremiah was saying to all the people:  
Jr3802 “Thus says the LORD: He who stays in this city shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence, but he who goes out to the Chaldeans shall live. He shall have his life as a prize of war, and live.  
Jr3803 Thus says the LORD: This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon and be taken.”  
Jr3804 Then the officials said to the king, “Let this man be put to death, for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking the welfare of this people, but their harm.”  
Jr3805 King Zedekiah said, “Behold, he is in your hands, for the king can do nothing against you.”  
Jr3806 So they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the court of the guard, letting Jeremiah down by ropes. And there was no water in the cistern, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.  
Jr3807 When Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern—the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate—  
Jr3808 Ebed-melech went from the king’s house and said to the king,  
Jr3809 “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern, and he will die there of hunger, for there is no bread left in the city.”  
Jr3810 Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, “Take thirty men with you from here, and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”  
Jr3811 So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the house of the king, to a wardrobe in the storehouse, and took from there old rags and worn-out clothes, which he let down to Jeremiah in the cistern by ropes.  
Jr3812 Then Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Put the rags and clothes between your armpits and the ropes.” Jeremiah did so.  
Jr3813 Then they drew Jeremiah up with ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.  
Jr3814 King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance of the temple of the LORD. The king said to Jeremiah, “I will ask you a question; hide nothing from me.”  
Jr3815 Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I tell you, will you not surely put me to death? And if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.”  
Jr3816 Then King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As the LORD lives, who made our souls, I will not put you to death or deliver you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”  
Jr3817 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you will surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then your life shall be spared, and this city shall not be burned with fire, and you and your house shall live.  
Jr3818 But if you do not surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then this city shall be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape from their hand.”  
Jr3819 King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Judeans who have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest I be handed over to them and they deal cruelly with me.”  
Jr3820 Jeremiah said, “You shall not be given to them. Obey now the voice of the LORD in what I say to you, and it shall be well with you, and your life shall be spared.  
Jr3821 But if you refuse to surrender, this is the vision which the LORD has shown to me:  
Jr3822 Behold, all the women left in the house of the king of Judah were being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon and were saying, “‘Your trusted friends have deceived you and prevailed against you; now that your feet are sunk in the mud, they turn away from you.’  
Jr3823 All your wives and your sons shall be led out to the Chaldeans, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand, but shall be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city shall be burned with fire.”  
Jr3824 Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no one know of these words, and you shall not die.  
Jr3825 If the officials hear that I have spoken with you and come to you and say to you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what the king said to you; hide nothing from us and we will not put you to death,’  
Jr3826 then you shall say to them, ‘I made a humble plea to the king that he would not send me back to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”  
Jr3827 Then all the officials came to Jeremiah and asked him, and he answered them as the king had instructed him. So they stopped speaking with him, for the conversation had not been overheard.  
Jr3828 And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.  
Jr3901 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and besieged it.  
Jr3902 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city.  
Jr3903 Then all the officials of the king of Babylon came and sat in the middle gate: Nergal- sar-ezer of Samgar, Nebu-sar-sekim the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, with all the rest of the officers of the king of Babylon.  
Jr3904 When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled, going out of the city at night by way of the king’s garden through the gate between the two walls; and they went toward the Arabah.  
Jr3905 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, at Riblah, in the land of Hamath; and he passed sentence on him.  
Jr3906 The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah at Riblah before his eyes, and the king of Babylon slaughtered all the nobles of Judah.  
Jr3907 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.  
Jr3908 The Chaldeans burned the king’s house and the house of the people, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.  
Jr3909 Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, carried into exile to Babylon the rest of the people who were left in the city, those who had deserted to him, and the people who remained.  
Jr3910 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, left in the land of Judah some of the poor people who owned nothing, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.  
Jr3911 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave command concerning Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, saying,  
Jr3912 “Take him, look after him well, and do him no harm, but deal with him as he tells you.”  
Jr3913 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, Nebushazban the Rab-saris, Nergal-sar-ezer the Rab-mag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon  
Jr3914 sent and took Jeremiah from the court of the guard. They entrusted him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, that he should take him home. So he lived among the people.  
Jr3915 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah while he was shut up in the court of the guard:  
Jr3916 “Go, and say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will fulfill my words against this city for harm and not for good, and they shall be accomplished before you on that day.  
Jr3917 But I will deliver you on that day, declares the LORD, and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.  
Jr3918 For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but you shall have your life as a prize of war, because you have put your trust in me, declares the LORD.’”  
Jr4001 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he took him bound in chains along with all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.  
Jr4002 The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, “The LORD your God pronounced this disaster against this place.  
Jr4003 The LORD has brought it about, and has done as he said. Because you sinned against the LORD and did not obey his voice, this thing has come upon you.  
Jr4004 Now, behold, I release you today from the chains on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you well, but if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, do not come. See, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go.  
Jr4005 If you remain, then return to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon appointed governor of the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people. Or go wherever you think it right to go.” So the captain of the guard gave him an allowance of food and a present, and let him go.  
Jr4006 Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah, and lived with him among the people who were left in the land.  
Jr4007 When all the captains of the forces in the open country and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land and had committed to him men, women, and children, those of the poorest of the land who had not been taken into exile to Babylon,  
Jr4008 they went to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.  
Jr4009 Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, swore to them and their men, saying, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.  
Jr4010 As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah, to represent you before the Chaldeans who will come to us. But as for you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and store them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.”  
Jr4011 Likewise, when all the Judeans who were in Moab and among the Ammonites and in Edom and in other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, as governor over them,  
Jr4012 then all the Judeans returned from all the places to which they had been driven and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered wine and summer fruits in great abundance.  
Jr4013 Now Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah  
Jr4014 and said to him, “Do you know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam would not believe them.  
Jr4015 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah at Mizpah, “Please let me go and strike down Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life, so that all the Judeans who are gathered about you would be scattered, and the remnant of Judah would perish?”  
Jr4016 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, “You shall not do this thing, for you are speaking falsely of Ishmael.”  
Jr4101 In the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, one of the chief officers of the king, came with ten men to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah. As they ate bread together there at Mizpah,  
Jr4102 Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men with him rose up and struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had appointed governor in the land.  
Jr4103 Ishmael also struck down all the Judeans who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldean soldiers who happened to be there.  
Jr4104 On the day after the murder of Gedaliah, before anyone knew of it,  
Jr4105 eighty men arrived from Shechem and Shiloh and Samaria, with their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and their bodies gashed, bringing grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the LORD.  
Jr4106 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah came out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he came. As he met them, he said to them, “Come in to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.”  
Jr4107 When they came into the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them and cast them into a cistern.  
Jr4108 But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, “Do not put us to death, for we have stores of wheat, barley, oil, and honey hidden in the fields.” So he refrained and did not put them to death with their companions.  
Jr4109 Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men whom he had struck down along with Gedaliah was the large cistern that King Asa had made for defense against Baasha king of Israel; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.  
Jr4110 Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, the king’s daughters and all the people who were left at Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took them captive and set out to cross over to the Ammonites.  
Jr4111 But when Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces with him heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,  
Jr4112 they took all their men and went to fight against Ishmael the son of Nethaniah. They came upon him at the great pool that is in Gibeon.  
Jr4113 And when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces with him, they rejoiced.  
Jr4114 So all the people whom Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned around and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.  
Jr4115 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.  
Jr4116 Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the leaders of the forces with him took from Mizpah all the rest of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after he had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam—soldiers, women, children, and eunuchs, whom Johanan brought back from Gibeon.  
Jr4117 And they went and stayed at Geruth Chimham near Bethlehem, intending to go to Egypt  
Jr4118 because of the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.  
Jr4201 Then all the commanders of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, came near  
Jr4202 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Let our plea for mercy come before you, and pray to the LORD your God for us, for all this remnant—because we are left with but a few, as your eyes see us—  
Jr4203 that the LORD your God may show us the way we should go, and the thing that we should do.”  
Jr4204 Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to the LORD your God according to your request, and whatever the LORD answers you I will tell you. I will keep nothing back from you.”  
Jr4205 Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act according to all the word with which the LORD your God sends you to us.  
Jr4206 Whether it is good or bad, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.”  
Jr4207 At the end of ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah.  
Jr4208 Then he summoned Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest,  
Jr4209 and said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your plea for mercy before him:  
Jr4210 If you will remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I relent of the disaster that I did to you.  
Jr4211 Do not fear the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Do not fear him, declares the LORD, for I am with you, to save you and to deliver you from his hand.  
Jr4212 I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you and let you remain in your own land.  
Jr4213 But if you say, ‘We will not remain in this land,’ disobeying the voice of the LORD your God  
Jr4214 and saying, ‘No, we will go to the land of Egypt, where we shall not see war or hear the sound of the trumpet or be hungry for bread, and we will dwell there,’  
Jr4215 then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: If you set your faces to enter Egypt and go to live there,  
Jr4216 then the sword that you fear shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine of which you are afraid shall follow close after you to Egypt, and there you shall die.  
Jr4217 All the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to live there shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. They shall have no remnant or survivor from the disaster that I will bring upon them.  
Jr4218 “For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you go to Egypt. You shall become an execration, a horror, a curse, and a taunt. You shall see this place no more.  
Jr4219 The LORD has said to you, O remnant of Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Know for a certainty that I have warned you this day  
Jr4220 that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. For you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the LORD our God, and whatever the LORD our God says, declare to us and we will do it.’  
Jr4221 And I have this day declared it to you, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in anything that he sent me to tell you.  
Jr4222 Now therefore know for a certainty that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live.”  
Jr4301 When Jeremiah finished speaking to all the people all these words of the LORD their God, with which the LORD their God had sent him to them,  
Jr4302 Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie. The LORD our God did not send you to say, ‘Do not go to Egypt to live there,’  
Jr4303 but Baruch the son of Neriah has set you against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may kill us or take us into exile in Babylon.”  
Jr4304 So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces and all the people did not obey the voice of the LORD, to remain in the land of Judah.  
Jr4305 But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took all the remnant of Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been driven—  
Jr4306 the men, the women, the children, the princesses, and every person whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan; also Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah.  
Jr4307 And they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not obey the voice of the LORD. And they arrived at Tahpanhes.  
Jr4308 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes:  
Jr4309 “Take in your hands large stones and hide them in the mortar in the pavement that is at the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah,  
Jr4310 and say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden, and he will spread his royal canopy over them.  
Jr4311 He shall come and strike the land of Egypt, giving over to the pestilence those who are doomed to the pestilence, to captivity those who are doomed to captivity, and to the sword those who are doomed to the sword.  
Jr4312 I shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them and carry them away captive. And he shall clean the land of Egypt as a shepherd cleans his cloak of vermin, and he shall go away from there in peace.  
Jr4313 He shall break the obelisks of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt, and the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.’”  
Jr4401 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Judeans who lived in the land of Egypt, at Migdol, at Tahpanhes, at Memphis, and in the land of Pathros,  
Jr4402 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the disaster that I brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah. Behold, this day they are a desolation, and no one dwells in them,  
Jr4403 because of the evil that they committed, provoking me to anger, in that they went to make offerings and serve other gods that they knew not, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.  
Jr4404 Yet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!’  
Jr4405 But they did not listen or incline their ear, to turn from their evil and make no offerings to other gods.  
Jr4406 Therefore my wrath and my anger were poured out and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became a waste and a desolation, as at this day.  
Jr4407 And now thus says the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why do you commit this great evil against yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and child, from the midst of Judah, leaving you no remnant?  
Jr4408 Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?  
Jr4409 Have you forgotten the evil of your fathers, the evil of the kings of Judah, the evil of their wives, your own evil, and the evil of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?  
Jr4410 They have not humbled themselves even to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in my law and my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers.  
Jr4411 “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for harm, to cut off all Judah.  
Jr4412 I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to come to the land of Egypt to live, and they shall all be consumed. In the land of Egypt they shall fall; by the sword and by famine they shall be consumed. From the least to the greatest, they shall die by the sword and by famine, and they shall become an oath, a horror, a curse, and a taunt.  
Jr4413 I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence,  
Jr4414 so that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive or return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to dwell there. For they shall not return, except some fugitives.”  
Jr4415 Then all the men who knew that their wives had made offerings to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who lived in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah:  
Jr4416 “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you.  
Jr4417 But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.  
Jr4418 But since we left off making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.”  
Jr4419 And the women said, “When we made offerings to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, was it without our husbands’ approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”  
Jr4420 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, men and women, all the people who had given him this answer:  
Jr4421 “As for the offerings that you offered in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your officials, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them? Did it not come into his mind?  
Jr4422 The LORD could no longer bear your evil deeds and the abominations that you committed. Therefore your land has become a desolation and a waste and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.  
Jr4423 It is because you made offerings and because you sinned against the LORD and did not obey the voice of the LORD or walk in his law and in his statutes and in his testimonies that this disaster has happened to you, as at this day.”  
Jr4424 Jeremiah said to all the people and all the women, “Hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who are in the land of Egypt.  
Jr4425 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: You and your wives have declared with your mouths, and have fulfilled it with your hands, saying, ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made, to make offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.’ Then confirm your vows and perform your vows!  
Jr4426 Therefore hear the word of the LORD, all you of Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says the LORD, that my name shall no more be invoked by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, ‘As the Lord GOD lives.’  
Jr4427 Behold, I am watching over them for disaster and not for good. All the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by famine, until there is an end of them.  
Jr4428 And those who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, who came to the land of Egypt to live, shall know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.  
Jr4429 This shall be the sign to you, declares the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, in order that you may know that my words will surely stand against you for harm:  
Jr4430 Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those who seek his life, as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and sought his life.”  
Jr4501 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the dictation of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:  
Jr4502 “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch:  
Jr4503 You said, ‘Woe is me! For the LORD has added sorrow to my pain. I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.’  
Jr4504 Thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD: Behold, what I have built I am breaking down, and what I have planted I am plucking up—that is, the whole land.  
Jr4505 And do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not, for behold, I am bringing disaster upon all flesh, declares the LORD. But I will give you your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go.”  
Jr4601 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.  
Jr4602 About Egypt. Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish and which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:  
Jr4603 “Prepare buckler and shield, and advance for battle!  
Jr4604 Harness the horses; mount, O horsemen! Take your stations with your helmets, polish your spears, put on your armor!  
Jr4605 Why have I seen it? They are dismayed and have turned backward. Their warriors are beaten down and have fled in haste; they look not back— terror on every side! declares the LORD.  
Jr4606 “The swift cannot flee away, nor the warrior escape; in the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen.  
Jr4607 “Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge?  
Jr4608 Egypt rises like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He said, ‘I will rise, I will cover the earth, I will destroy cities and their inhabitants.’  
Jr4609 Advance, O horses, and rage, O chariots! Let the warriors go out: men of Cush and Put who handle the shield, men of Lud, skilled in handling the bow.  
Jr4610 That day is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his foes. The sword shall devour and be sated and drink its fill of their blood. For the Lord GOD of hosts holds a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.  
Jr4611 Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you.  
Jr4612 The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for warrior has stumbled against warrior; they have both fallen together.”  
Jr4613 The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt:  
Jr4614 “Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol; proclaim in Memphis and Tahpanhes; say, ‘Stand ready and be prepared, for the sword shall devour around you.’  
Jr4615 Why are your mighty ones face down? They do not stand because the LORD thrust them down.  
Jr4616 He made many stumble, and they fell, and they said one to another, ‘Arise, and let us go back to our own people and to the land of our birth, because of the sword of the oppressor.’  
Jr4617 Call the name of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, ‘Noisy one who lets the hour go by.’  
Jr4618 “As I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea, shall one come.  
Jr4619 Prepare yourselves baggage for exile, O inhabitants of Egypt! For Memphis shall become a waste, a ruin, without inhabitant.  
Jr4620 “A beautiful heifer is Egypt, but a biting fly from the north has come upon her.  
Jr4621 Even her hired soldiers in her midst are like fattened calves; yes, they have turned and fled together; they did not stand, for the day of their calamity has come upon them, the time of their punishment.  
Jr4622 “She makes a sound like a serpent gliding away; for her enemies march in force and come against her with axes like those who fell trees.  
Jr4623 They shall cut down her forest, declares the LORD, though it is impenetrable, because they are more numerous than locusts; they are without number.  
Jr4624 The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of a people from the north.”  
Jr4625 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, said: “Behold, I am bringing punishment upon Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh and Egypt and her gods and her kings, upon Pharaoh and those who trust in him.  
Jr4626 I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their life, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and his officers. Afterward Egypt shall be inhabited as in the days of old, declares the LORD.  
Jr4627 “But fear not, O Jacob my servant, nor be dismayed, O Israel, for behold, I will save you from far away, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease, and none shall make him afraid.  
Jr4628 Fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the LORD, for I am with you. I will make a full end of all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.”  
Jr4701 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck down Gaza.  
Jr4702 “Thus says the LORD: Behold, waters are rising out of the north, and shall become an overflowing torrent; they shall overflow the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it. Men shall cry out, and every inhabitant of the land shall wail.  
Jr4703 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels, the fathers look not back to their children, so feeble are their hands,  
Jr4704 because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains. For the LORD is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.  
Jr4705 Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has perished. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourselves?  
Jr4706 Ah, sword of the LORD! How long till you are quiet? Put yourself into your scabbard; rest and be still!  
Jr4707 How can it be quiet when the LORD has given it a charge? Against Ashkelon and against the seashore he has appointed it.”  
Jr4801 Concerning Moab. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Woe to Nebo, for it is laid waste! Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; the fortress is put to shame and broken down;  
Jr4802 the renown of Moab is no more. In Heshbon they planned disaster against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!’ You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue you.  
Jr4803 “A voice! A cry from Horonaim, ‘Desolation and great destruction!’  
Jr4804 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have made a cry.  
Jr4805 For at the ascent of Luhith they go up weeping; for at the descent of Horonaim they have heard the distressed cry of destruction.  
Jr4806 Flee! Save yourselves! You will be like a juniper in the desert!  
Jr4807 For, because you trusted in your works and your treasures, you also shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go into exile with his priests and his officials.  
Jr4808 The destroyer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD has spoken.  
Jr4809 “Give wings to Moab, for she would fly away; her cities shall become a desolation, with no inhabitant in them.  
Jr4810 “Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.  
Jr4811 “Moab has been at ease from his youth and has settled on his dregs; he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into exile; so his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.  
Jr4812 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I shall send to him pourers who will pour him, and empty his vessels and break his jars in pieces.  
Jr4813 Then Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.  
Jr4814 “How do you say, ‘We are heroes and mighty men of war’?  
Jr4815 The destroyer of Moab and his cities has come up, and the choicest of his young men have gone down to slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.  
Jr4816 The calamity of Moab is near at hand, and his affliction hastens swiftly.  
Jr4817 Grieve for him, all you who are around him, and all who know his name; say, ‘How the mighty scepter is broken, the glorious staff.’  
Jr4818 “Come down from your glory, and sit on the parched ground, O inhabitant of Dibon! For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you; he has destroyed your strongholds.  
Jr4819 Stand by the way and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer! Ask him who flees and her who escapes; say, ‘What has happened?’  
Jr4820 Moab is put to shame, for it is broken; wail and cry! Tell it beside the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.  
Jr4821 “Judgment has come upon the tableland, upon Holon, and Jahzah, and Mephaath,  
Jr4822 and Dibon, and Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,  
Jr4823 and Kiriathaim, and Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,  
Jr4824 and Kerioth, and Bozrah, and all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.  
Jr4825 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, declares the LORD.  
Jr4826 “Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against the LORD, so that Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he too shall be held in derision.  
Jr4827 Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?  
Jr4828 “Leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, O inhabitants of Moab! Be like the dove that nests in the sides of the mouth of a gorge.  
Jr4829 We have heard of the pride of Moab— he is very proud— of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.  
Jr4830 I know his insolence, declares the LORD; his boasts are false, his deeds are false.  
Jr4831 Therefore I wail for Moab; I cry out for all Moab; for the men of Kir-hareseth I mourn.  
Jr4832 More than for Jazer I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah! Your branches passed over the sea, reached to the Sea of Jazer; on your summer fruits and your grapes the destroyer has fallen.  
Jr4833 Gladness and joy have been taken away from the fruitful land of Moab; I have made the wine cease from the winepresses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; the shouting is not the shout of joy.  
Jr4834 “From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate.  
Jr4835 And I will bring to an end in Moab, declares the LORD, him who offers sacrifice in the high place and makes offerings to his god.  
Jr4836 Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of Kir-hareseth. Therefore the riches they gained have perished.  
Jr4837 “For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. On all the hands are gashes, and around the waist is sackcloth.  
Jr4838 On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like a vessel for which no one cares, declares the LORD.  
Jr4839 How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all that are around him.”  
Jr4840 For thus says the LORD: “Behold, one shall fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Moab;  
Jr4841 the cities shall be taken and the strongholds seized. The heart of the warriors of Moab shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her birth pains;  
Jr4842 Moab shall be destroyed and be no longer a people, because he magnified himself against the LORD.  
Jr4843 Terror, pit, and snare are before you, O inhabitant of Moab! declares the LORD.  
Jr4844 He who flees from the terror shall fall into the pit, and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For I will bring these things upon Moab, the year of their punishment, declares the LORD.  
Jr4845 “In the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stop without strength, for fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the house of Sihon; it has destroyed the forehead of Moab, the crown of the sons of tumult.  
Jr4846 Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh are undone, for your sons have been taken captive, and your daughters into captivity.  
Jr4847 Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the latter days, declares the LORD.” Thus far is the judgment on Moab.  
Jr4901 Concerning the Ammonites. Thus says the LORD: “Has Israel no sons? Has he no heir? Why then has Milcom dispossessed Gad, and his people settled in its cities?  
Jr4902 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will cause the battle cry to be heard against Rabbah of the Ammonites; it shall become a desolate mound, and its villages shall be burned with fire; then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him, says the LORD.  
Jr4903 “Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the hedges! For Milcom shall go into exile, with his priests and his officials.  
Jr4904 Why do you boast of your valleys, O faithless daughter, who trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come against me?’  
Jr4905 Behold, I will bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of hosts, from all who are around you, and you shall be driven out, every man straight before him, with none to gather the fugitives.  
Jr4906 “But afterward I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites, declares the LORD.”  
Jr4907 Concerning Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?  
Jr4908 Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time when I punish him.  
Jr4909 If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, would they not destroy only enough for themselves?  
Jr4910 But I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to conceal himself. His children are destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.  
Jr4911 Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me.”  
Jr4912 For thus says the LORD: “If those who did not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, will you go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you must drink.  
Jr4913 For I have sworn by myself, declares the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a horror, a taunt, a waste, and a curse, and all her cities shall be perpetual wastes.”  
Jr4914 I have heard a message from the LORD, and an envoy has been sent among the nations: “Gather yourselves together and come against her, and rise up for battle!  
Jr4915 For behold, I will make you small among the nations, despised among mankind.  
Jr4916 The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle’s, I will bring you down from there, declares the LORD.  
Jr4917 “Edom shall become a horror. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its disasters.  
Jr4918 As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities were overthrown, says the LORD, no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her.  
Jr4919 Behold, like a lion coming up from the jungle of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make him run away from her. And I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?  
Jr4920 Therefore hear the plan that the LORD has made against Edom and the purposes that he has formed against the inhabitants of Teman: Even the little ones of the flock shall be dragged away. Surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.  
Jr4921 At the sound of their fall the earth shall tremble; the sound of their cry shall be heard at the Red Sea.  
Jr4922 Behold, one shall mount up and fly swiftly like an eagle and spread his wings against Bozrah, and the heart of the warriors of Edom shall be in that day like the heart of a woman in her birth pains.”  
Jr4923 Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard bad news; they melt in fear, they are troubled like the sea that cannot be quiet.  
Jr4924 Damascus has become feeble, she turned to flee, and panic seized her; anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in labor.  
Jr4925 How is the famous city not forsaken, the city of my joy?  
Jr4926 Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed in that day, declares the LORD of hosts.  
Jr4927 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.”  
Jr4928 Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck down. Thus says the LORD: “Rise up, advance against Kedar! Destroy the people of the east!  
Jr4929 Their tents and their flocks shall be taken, their curtains and all their goods; their camels shall be led away from them, and men shall cry to them: ‘Terror on every side!’  
Jr4930 Flee, wander far away, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Hazor! declares the LORD. For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has made a plan against you and formed a purpose against you.  
Jr4931 “Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, that dwells securely, declares the LORD, that has no gates or bars, that dwells alone.  
Jr4932 Their camels shall become plunder, their herds of livestock a spoil. I will scatter to every wind those who cut the corners of their hair, and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, declares the LORD.  
Jr4933 Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals, an everlasting waste; no man shall dwell there; no man shall sojourn in her.”  
Jr4934 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.  
Jr4935 Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the mainstay of their might.  
Jr4936 And I will bring upon Elam the four winds from the four quarters of heaven. And I will scatter them to all those winds, and there shall be no nation to which those driven out of Elam shall not come.  
Jr4937 I will terrify Elam before their enemies and before those who seek their life. I will bring disaster upon them, my fierce anger, declares the LORD. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them,  
Jr4938 and I will set my throne in Elam and destroy their king and officials, declares the LORD.  
Jr4939 “But in the latter days I will restore the fortunes of Elam, declares the LORD.”  
Jr5001 The word that the LORD spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet:  
Jr5002 “Declare among the nations and proclaim, set up a banner and proclaim, conceal it not, and say: ‘Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed. Her images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.’  
Jr5003 “For out of the north a nation has come up against her, which shall make her land a desolation, and none shall dwell in it; both man and beast shall flee away.  
Jr5004 “In those days and in that time, declares the LORD, the people of Israel and the people of Judah shall come together, weeping as they come, and they shall seek the LORD their God.  
Jr5005 They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.’  
Jr5006 “My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone. They have forgotten their fold.  
Jr5007 All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’  
Jr5008 “Flee from the midst of Babylon, and go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as male goats before the flock.  
Jr5009 For behold, I am stirring up and bringing against Babylon a gathering of great nations, from the north country. And they shall array themselves against her. From there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like a skilled warrior who does not return empty- handed.  
Jr5010 Chaldea shall be plundered; all who plunder her shall be sated, declares the LORD.  
Jr5011 “Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my heritage, though you frolic like a heifer in the pasture, and neigh like stallions,  
Jr5012 your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Behold, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.  
Jr5013 Because of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited but shall be an utter desolation; everyone who passes by Babylon shall be appalled, and hiss because of all her wounds.  
Jr5014 Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the LORD.  
Jr5015 Raise a shout against her all around; she has surrendered; her bulwarks have fallen; her walls are thrown down. For this is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance on her; do to her as she has done.  
Jr5016 Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the one who handles the sickle in time of harvest; because of the sword of the oppressor, every one shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.  
Jr5017 “Israel is a hunted sheep driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has gnawed his bones.  
Jr5018 Therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing punishment on the king of Babylon and his land, as I punished the king of Assyria.  
Jr5019 I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and in Bashan, and his desire shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.  
Jr5020 In those days and in that time, declares the LORD, iniquity shall be sought in Israel, and there shall be none, and sin in Judah, and none shall be found, for I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant.  
Jr5021 “Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the inhabitants of Pekod. Kill, and devote them to destruction, declares the LORD, and do all that I have commanded you.  
Jr5022 The noise of battle is in the land, and great destruction!  
Jr5023 How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!  
Jr5024 I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and caught, because you opposed the LORD.  
Jr5025 The LORD has opened his armory and brought out the weapons of his wrath, for the Lord GOD of hosts has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.  
Jr5026 Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction; let nothing be left of her.  
Jr5027 Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.  
Jr5028 “A voice! They flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, vengeance for his temple.  
Jr5029 “Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done. For she has proudly defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.  
Jr5030 Therefore her young men shall fall in her squares, and all her soldiers shall be destroyed on that day, declares the LORD.  
Jr5031 “Behold, I am against you, O proud one, declares the Lord GOD of hosts, for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.  
Jr5032 The proud one shall stumble and fall, with none to raise him up, and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all that is around him.  
Jr5033 “Thus says the LORD of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them. All who took them captive have held them fast; they refuse to let them go.  
Jr5034 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.  
Jr5035 “A sword against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and against her officials and her wise men!  
Jr5036 A sword against the diviners, that they may become fools! A sword against her warriors, that they may be destroyed!  
Jr5037 A sword against her horses and against her chariots, and against all the foreign troops in her midst, that they may become women! A sword against all her treasures, that they may be plundered!  
Jr5038 A drought against her waters, that they may be dried up! For it is a land of images, and they are mad over idols.  
Jr5039 “Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations.  
Jr5040 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the LORD, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.  
Jr5041 “Behold, a people comes from the north; a mighty nation and many kings are stirring from the farthest parts of the earth.  
Jr5042 They lay hold of bow and spear; they are cruel and have no mercy. The sound of them is like the roaring of the sea; they ride on horses, arrayed as a man for battle against you, O daughter of Babylon!  
Jr5043 “The king of Babylon heard the report of them, and his hands fell helpless; anguish seized him, pain as of a woman in labor.  
Jr5044 “Behold, like a lion coming up from the thicket of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make them run away from her, and I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?  
Jr5045 Therefore hear the plan that the LORD has made against Babylon, and the purposes that he has formed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of their flock shall be dragged away; surely their fold shall be appalled at their fate.  
Jr5046 At the sound of the capture of Babylon the earth shall tremble, and her cry shall be heard among the nations.”  
Jr5101 Thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai,  
Jr5102 and I will send to Babylon winnowers, and they shall winnow her, and they shall empty her land, when they come against her from every side on the day of trouble.  
Jr5103 Let not the archer bend his bow, and let him not stand up in his armor. Spare not her young men; devote to destruction all her army.  
Jr5104 They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and wounded in her streets.  
Jr5105 For Israel and Judah have not been forsaken by their God, the LORD of hosts, but the land of the Chaldeans is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.  
Jr5106 “Flee from the midst of Babylon; let every one save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance, the repayment he is rendering her.  
Jr5107 Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD’s hand, making all the earth drunken; the nations drank of her wine; therefore the nations went mad.  
Jr5108 Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken; wail for her! Take balm for her pain; perhaps she may be healed.  
Jr5109 We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Forsake her, and let us go each to his own country, for her judgment has reached up to heaven and has been lifted up even to the skies.  
Jr5110 The LORD has brought about our vindication; come, let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.  
Jr5111 “Sharpen the arrows! Take up the shields! The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance for his temple.  
Jr5112 “Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon; make the watch strong; set up watchmen; prepare the ambushes; for the LORD has both planned and done what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.  
Jr5113 O you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.  
Jr5114 The LORD of hosts has sworn by himself: Surely I will fill you with men, as many as locusts, and they shall raise the shout of victory over you.  
Jr5115 “It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.  
Jr5116 When he utters his voice there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.  
Jr5117 Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.  
Jr5118 They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.  
Jr5119 Not like these is he who is the portion of Jacob, for he is the one who formed all things, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance; the LORD of hosts is his name.  
Jr5120 “You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;  
Jr5121 with you I break in pieces the horse and his rider; with you I break in pieces the chariot and the charioteer;  
Jr5122 with you I break in pieces man and woman; with you I break in pieces the old man and the youth; with you I break in pieces the young man and the young woman;  
Jr5123 with you I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; with you I break in pieces the farmer and his team; with you I break in pieces governors and commanders.  
Jr5124 “I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, declares the LORD.  
Jr5125 “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, declares the LORD, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a burnt mountain.  
Jr5126 No stone shall be taken from you for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be a perpetual waste, declares the LORD.  
Jr5127 “Set up a standard on the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the nations for war against her; summon against her the kingdoms, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like bristling locusts.  
Jr5128 Prepare the nations for war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and deputies, and every land under their dominion.  
Jr5129 The land trembles and writhes in pain, for the LORD’s purposes against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.  
Jr5130 The warriors of Babylon have ceased fighting; they remain in their strongholds; their strength has failed; they have become women; her dwellings are on fire; her bars are broken.  
Jr5131 One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every side;  
Jr5132 the fords have been seized, the marshes are burned with fire, and the soldiers are in panic.  
Jr5133 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while and the time of her harvest will come.”  
Jr5134 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his stomach with my delicacies; he has rinsed me out.  
Jr5135 The violence done to me and to my kinsmen be upon Babylon,” let the inhabitant of Zion say. “My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,” let Jerusalem say.  
Jr5136 Therefore thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will plead your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountain dry,  
Jr5137 and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant.  
Jr5138 “They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions’ cubs.  
Jr5139 While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the LORD.  
Jr5140 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and male goats.  
Jr5141 “How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!  
Jr5142 The sea has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous waves.  
Jr5143 Her cities have become a horror, a land of drought and a desert, a land in which no one dwells, and through which no son of man passes.  
Jr5144 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what he has swallowed. The nations shall no longer flow to him; the wall of Babylon has fallen.  
Jr5145 “Go out of the midst of her, my people! Let every one save his life from the fierce anger of the LORD!  
Jr5146 Let not your heart faint, and be not fearful at the report heard in the land, when a report comes in one year and afterward a report in another year, and violence is in the land, and ruler is against ruler.  
Jr5147 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the images of Babylon; her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.  
Jr5148 Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall sing for joy over Babylon, for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, declares the LORD.  
Jr5149 Babylon must fall for the slain of Israel, just as for Babylon have fallen the slain of all the earth.  
Jr5150 “You who have escaped from the sword, go, do not stand still! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come into your mind:  
Jr5151 ‘We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach; dishonor has covered our face, for foreigners have come into the holy places of the LORD’s house.’  
Jr5152 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will execute judgment upon her images, and through all her land the wounded shall groan.  
Jr5153 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, yet destroyers would come from me against her, declares the LORD.  
Jr5154 “A voice! A cry from Babylon! The noise of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!  
Jr5155 For the LORD is laying Babylon waste and stilling her mighty voice. Their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is raised,  
Jr5156 for a destroyer has come upon her, upon Babylon; her warriors are taken; their bows are broken in pieces, for the LORD is a God of recompense; he will surely repay.  
Jr5157 I will make drunk her officials and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.  
Jr5158 “Thus says the LORD of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples labor for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire.”  
Jr5159 The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign. Seraiah was the quartermaster.  
Jr5160 Jeremiah wrote in a book all the disaster that should come upon Babylon, all these words that are written concerning Babylon.  
Jr5161 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: “When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words,  
Jr5162 and say, ‘O LORD, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.’  
Jr5163 When you finish reading this book, tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates,  
Jr5164 and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her, and they shall become exhausted.’” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.  
Jr5201 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.  
Jr5202 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.  
Jr5203 For because of the anger of the LORD it came to the point in Jerusalem and Judah that he cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.  
Jr5204 And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it.  
Jr5205 So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.  
Jr5206 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.  
Jr5207 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.  
Jr5208 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.  
Jr5209 Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.  
Jr5210 The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at Riblah.  
Jr5211 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.  
Jr5212 In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.  
Jr5213 And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.  
Jr5214 And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.  
Jr5215 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the artisans.  
Jr5216 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.  
Jr5217 And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all the bronze to Babylon.  
Jr5218 And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the basins and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service;  
Jr5219 also the small bowls and the fire pans and the basins and the pots and the lampstands and the dishes for incense and the bowls for drink offerings. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver.  
Jr5220 As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea, and the stands, which Solomon the king had made for the house of the LORD, the bronze of all these things was beyond weight.  
Jr5221 As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, its circumference was twelve cubits, and its thickness was four fingers, and it was hollow.  
Jr5222 On it was a capital of bronze. The height of the one capital was five cubits. A network and pomegranates, all of bronze, were around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with pomegranates.  
Jr5223 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network all around.  
Jr5224 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold;  
Jr5225 and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and seven men of the king’s council, who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.  
Jr5226 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.  
Jr5227 And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.  
Jr5228 This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans;  
Jr5229 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem 832 persons;  
Jr5230 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Judeans 745 persons; all the persons were 4,600.  
Jr5231 And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.  
Jr5232 And he spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.  
Jr5233 So Jehoiachin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king’s table,  
Jr5234 and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, according to his daily needs, until the day of his death, as long as he lived.  
Lm0101 How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave.  
Lm0102 She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.  
Lm0103 Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and hard servitude; she dwells now among the nations, but finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.  
Lm0104 The roads to Zion mourn, for none come to the festival; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her virgins have been afflicted, and she herself suffers bitterly.  
Lm0105 Her foes have become the head; her enemies prosper, because the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the foe.  
Lm0106 From the daughter of Zion all her majesty has departed. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture; they fled without strength before the pursuer.  
Lm0107 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and wandering all the precious things that were hers from days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the foe, and there was none to help her, her foes gloated over her; they mocked at her downfall.  
Lm0108 Jerusalem sinned grievously; therefore she became filthy; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns her face away.  
Lm0109 Her uncleanness was in her skirts; she took no thought of her future; therefore her fall is terrible; she has no comforter. “O LORD, behold my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!”  
Lm0110 The enemy has stretched out his hands over all her precious things; for she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, those whom you forbade to enter your congregation.  
Lm0111 All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their strength. “Look, O LORD, and see, for I am despised.”  
Lm0112 “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the LORD inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.  
Lm0113 “From on high he sent fire; into my bones he made it descend; he spread a net for my feet; he turned me back; he has left me stunned, faint all the day long.  
Lm0114 “My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hand they were fastened together; they were set upon my neck; he caused my strength to fail; the Lord gave me into the hands of those whom I cannot withstand.  
Lm0115 “The Lord rejected all my mighty men in my midst; he summoned an assembly against me to crush my young men; the Lord has trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.  
Lm0116 “For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my spirit; my children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed.”  
Lm0117 Zion stretches out her hands, but there is none to comfort her; the LORD has commanded against Jacob that his neighbors should be his foes; Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them.  
Lm0118 “The LORD is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and see my suffering; my young women and my young men have gone into captivity.  
Lm0119 “I called to my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city, while they sought food to revive their strength.  
Lm0120 “Look, O LORD, for I am in distress; my stomach churns; my heart is wrung within me, because I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword bereaves; in the house it is like death.  
Lm0121 “They heard my groaning, yet there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. You have brought the day you announced; now let them be as I am.  
Lm0122 “Let all their evildoing come before you, and deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my transgressions; for my groans are many, and my heart is faint.”  
Lm0201 How the Lord in his anger has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.  
Lm0202 The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.  
Lm0203 He has cut down in fierce anger all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn from them his right hand in the face of the enemy; he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob, consuming all around.  
Lm0204 He has bent his bow like an enemy, with his right hand set like a foe; and he has killed all who were delightful in our eyes in the tent of the daughter of Zion; he has poured out his fury like fire.  
Lm0205 The Lord has become like an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all its palaces; he has laid in ruins its strongholds, and he has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.  
Lm0206 He has laid waste his booth like a garden, laid in ruins his meeting place; the LORD has made Zion forget festival and Sabbath, and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.  
Lm0207 The Lord has scorned his altar, disowned his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they raised a clamor in the house of the LORD as on the day of festival.  
Lm0208 The LORD determined to lay in ruins the wall of the daughter of Zion; he stretched out the measuring line; he did not restrain his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together.  
Lm0209 Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the LORD.  
Lm0210 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.  
Lm0211 My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies faint in the streets of the city.  
Lm0212 They cry to their mothers, “Where is bread and wine?” as they faint like a wounded man in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out on their mothers’ bosom.  
Lm0213 What can I say for you, to what compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is vast as the sea; who can heal you?  
Lm0214 Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, but have seen for you oracles that are false and misleading.  
Lm0215 All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”  
Lm0216 All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: “We have swallowed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see it!”  
Lm0217 The LORD has done what he purposed; he has carried out his word, which he commanded long ago; he has thrown down without pity; he has made the enemy rejoice over you and exalted the might of your foes.  
Lm0218 Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears stream down like a torrent day and night! Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite!  
Lm0219 “Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.”  
Lm0220 Look, O LORD, and see! With whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat the fruit of their womb, the children of their tender care? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?  
Lm0221 In the dust of the streets lie the young and the old; my young women and my young men have fallen by the sword; you have killed them in the day of your anger, slaughtering without pity.  
Lm0222 You summoned as if to a festival day my terrors on every side, and on the day of the anger of the LORD no one escaped or survived; those whom I held and raised my enemy destroyed.  
Lm0301 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath;  
Lm0302 he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;  
Lm0303 surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long.  
Lm0304 He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones;  
Lm0305 he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;  
Lm0306 he has made me dwell in darkness like the dead of long ago.  
Lm0307 He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy;  
Lm0308 though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;  
Lm0309 he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.  
Lm0310 He is a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding;  
Lm0311 he turned aside my steps and tore me to pieces; he has made me desolate;  
Lm0312 he bent his bow and set me as a target for his arrow.  
Lm0313 He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver;  
Lm0314 I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long.  
Lm0315 He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.  
Lm0316 He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes;  
Lm0317 my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is;  
Lm0318 so I say, “My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the LORD.”  
Lm0319 Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!  
Lm0320 My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me.  
Lm0321 But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:  
Lm0322 The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;  
Lm0323 they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.  
Lm0324 “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”  
Lm0325 The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.  
Lm0326 It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.  
Lm0327 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.  
Lm0328 Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him;  
Lm0329 let him put his mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope;  
Lm0330 let him give his cheek to the one who strikes, and let him be filled with insults.  
Lm0331 For the Lord will not cast off forever,  
Lm0332 but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;  
Lm0333 for he does not afflict from his heart or grieve the children of men.  
Lm0334 To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth,  
Lm0335 to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High,  
Lm0336 to subvert a man in his lawsuit, the Lord does not approve.  
Lm0337 Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?  
Lm0338 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?  
Lm0339 Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?  
Lm0340 Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the LORD!  
Lm0341 Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:  
Lm0342 “We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven.  
Lm0343 “You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity;  
Lm0344 you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.  
Lm0345 You have made us scum and garbage among the peoples.  
Lm0346 “All our enemies open their mouths against us;  
Lm0347 panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction;  
Lm0348 my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.  
Lm0349 “My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite,  
Lm0350 until the LORD from heaven looks down and sees;  
Lm0351 my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the daughters of my city.  
Lm0352 “I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;  
Lm0353 they flung me alive into the pit and cast stones on me;  
Lm0354 water closed over my head; I said, ‘I am lost.’  
Lm0355 “I called on your name, O LORD, from the depths of the pit;  
Lm0356 you heard my plea, ‘Do not close your ear to my cry for help!’  
Lm0357 You came near when I called on you; you said, ‘Do not fear!’  
Lm0358 “You have taken up my cause, O Lord; you have redeemed my life.  
Lm0359 You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; judge my cause.  
Lm0360 You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.  
Lm0361 “You have heard their taunts, O LORD, all their plots against me.  
Lm0362 The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long.  
Lm0363 Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts.  
Lm0364 “You will repay them, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.  
Lm0365 You will give them dullness of heart; your curse will be on them.  
Lm0366 You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under your heavens, O LORD.”  
Lm0401 How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street.  
Lm0402 The precious sons of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold, how they are regarded as earthen pots, the work of a potter’s hands!  
Lm0403 Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young; but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.  
Lm0404 The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them.  
Lm0405 Those who once feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple embrace ash heaps.  
Lm0406 For the chastisement of the daughter of my people has been greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment, and no hands were wrung for her.  
Lm0407 Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, the beauty of their form was like sapphire.  
Lm0408 Now their face is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as wood.  
Lm0409 Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of hunger, who wasted away, pierced by lack of the fruits of the field.  
Lm0410 The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.  
Lm0411 The LORD gave full vent to his wrath; he poured out his hot anger, and he kindled a fire in Zion that consumed its foundations.  
Lm0412 The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.  
Lm0413 This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.  
Lm0414 They wandered, blind, through the streets; they were so defiled with blood that no one was able to touch their garments.  
Lm0415 “Away! Unclean!” people cried at them. “Away! Away! Do not touch!” So they became fugitives and wanderers; people said among the nations, “They shall stay with us no longer.”  
Lm0416 The LORD himself has scattered them; he will regard them no more; no honor was shown to the priests, no favor to the elders.  
Lm0417 Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.  
Lm0418 They dogged our steps so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near; our days were numbered, for our end had come.  
Lm0419 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles in the heavens; they chased us on the mountains; they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.  
Lm0420 The breath of our nostrils, the LORD’s anointed, was captured in their pits, of whom we said, “Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.”  
Lm0421 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup shall pass; you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.  
Lm0422 The punishment of your iniquity, O daughter of Zion, is accomplished; he will keep you in exile no longer; but your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will punish; he will uncover your sins.  
Lm0501 Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace!  
Lm0502 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.  
Lm0503 We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.  
Lm0504 We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought.  
Lm0505 Our pursuers are at our necks; we are weary; we are given no rest.  
Lm0506 We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough.  
Lm0507 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities.  
Lm0508 Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.  
Lm0509 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.  
Lm0510 Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.  
Lm0511 Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.  
Lm0512 Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.  
Lm0513 Young men are compelled to grind at the mill, and boys stagger under loads of wood.  
Lm0514 The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music.  
Lm0515 The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.  
Lm0516 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!  
Lm0517 For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,  
Lm0518 for Mount Zion which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.  
Lm0519 But you, O LORD, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations.  
Lm0520 Why do you forget us forever, why do you forsake us for so many days?  
Lm0521 Restore us to yourself, O LORD, that we may be restored! Renew our days as of old—  
Lm0522 unless you have utterly rejected us, and you remain exceedingly angry with us.  
Ez0101 In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the Chebar canal, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.  
Ez0102 On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin),  
Ez0103 the word of the LORD came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the Chebar canal, and the hand of the LORD was upon him there.  
Ez0104 As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness around it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming metal.  
Ez0105 And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had a human likeness,  
Ez0106 but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings.  
Ez0107 Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calf’s foot. And they sparkled like burnished bronze.  
Ez0108 Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. And the four had their faces and their wings thus:  
Ez0109 their wings touched one another. Each one of them went straight forward, without turning as they went.  
Ez0110 As for the likeness of their faces, each had a human face. The four had the face of a lion on the right side, the four had the face of an ox on the left side, and the four had the face of an eagle.  
Ez0111 Such were their faces. And their wings were spread out above. Each creature had two wings, each of which touched the wing of another, while two covered their bodies.  
Ez0112 And each went straight forward. Wherever the spirit would go, they went, without turning as they went.  
Ez0113 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches moving to and fro among the living creatures. And the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.  
Ez0114 And the living creatures darted to and fro, like the appearance of a flash of lightning.  
Ez0115 Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them.  
Ez0116 As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of beryl. And the four had the same likeness, their appearance and construction being as it were a wheel within a wheel.  
Ez0117 When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went.  
Ez0118 And their rims were tall and awesome, and the rims of all four were full of eyes all around.  
Ez0119 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose.  
Ez0120 Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, and the wheels rose along with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.  
Ez0121 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those rose from the earth, the wheels rose along with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.  
Ez0122 Over the heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of an expanse, shining like awe-inspiring crystal, spread out above their heads.  
Ez0123 And under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward another. And each creature had two wings covering its body.  
Ez0124 And when they went, I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of many waters, like the sound of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army. When they stood still, they let down their wings.  
Ez0125 And there came a voice from above the expanse over their heads. When they stood still, they let down their wings.  
Ez0126 And above the expanse over their heads there was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire; and seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness with a human appearance.  
Ez0127 And upward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were gleaming metal, like the appearance of fire enclosed all around. And downward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.  
Ez0128 Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.  
Ez0201 And he said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak with you.”  
Ez0202 And as he spoke to me, the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and I heard him speaking to me.  
Ez0203 And he said to me, “Son of man, I send you to the people of Israel, to nations of rebels, who have rebelled against me. They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.  
Ez0204 The descendants also are impudent and stubborn: I send you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’  
Ez0205 And whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house) they will know that a prophet has been among them.  
Ez0206 And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions. Be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.  
Ez0207 And you shall speak my words to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear, for they are a rebellious house.  
Ez0208 “But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.”  
Ez0209 And when I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me, and behold, a scroll of a book was in it.  
Ez0210 And he spread it before me. And it had writing on the front and on the back, and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe.  
Ez0301 And he said to me, “Son of man, eat whatever you find here. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”  
Ez0302 So I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat.  
Ez0303 And he said to me, “Son of man, feed your belly with this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it.” Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey.  
Ez0304 And he said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with my words to them.  
Ez0305 For you are not sent to a people of foreign speech and a hard language, but to the house of Israel—  
Ez0306 not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you.  
Ez0307 But the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me: because all the house of Israel have a hard forehead and a stubborn heart.  
Ez0308 Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.  
Ez0309 Like emery harder than flint have I made your forehead. Fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.”  
Ez0310 Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.  
Ez0311 And go to the exiles, to your people, and speak to them and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ whether they hear or refuse to hear.”  
Ez0312 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great earthquake: “Blessed be the glory of the LORD from its place!”  
Ez0313 It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the sound of the wheels beside them, and the sound of a great earthquake.  
Ez0314 The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the LORD being strong upon me.  
Ez0315 And I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were dwelling by the Chebar canal, and I sat where they were dwelling. And I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.  
Ez0316 And at the end of seven days, the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez0317 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.  
Ez0318 If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.  
Ez0319 But if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, or from his wicked way, he shall die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.  
Ez0320 Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered, but his blood I will require at your hand.  
Ez0321 But if you warn the righteous person not to sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning, and you will have delivered your soul.”  
Ez0322 And the hand of the LORD was upon me there. And he said to me, “Arise, go out into the valley, and there I will speak with you.”  
Ez0323 So I arose and went out into the valley, and behold, the glory of the LORD stood there, like the glory that I had seen by the Chebar canal, and I fell on my face.  
Ez0324 But the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and he spoke with me and said to me, “Go, shut yourself within your house.  
Ez0325 And you, O son of man, behold, cords will be placed upon you, and you shall be bound with them, so that you cannot go out among the people.  
Ez0326 And I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute and unable to reprove them, for they are a rebellious house.  
Ez0327 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’ He who will hear, let him hear; and he who will refuse to hear, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious house.  
Ez0401 “And you, son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and engrave on it a city, even Jerusalem.  
Ez0402 And put siegeworks against it, and build a siege wall against it, and cast up a mound against it. Set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.  
Ez0403 And you, take an iron griddle, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face toward it, and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is a sign for the house of Israel.  
Ez0404 “Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment of the house of Israel upon it. For the number of the days that you lie on it, you shall bear their punishment.  
Ez0405 For I assign to you a number of days, 390 days, equal to the number of the years of their punishment. So long shall you bear the punishment of the house of Israel.  
Ez0406 And when you have completed these, you shall lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the punishment of the house of Judah. Forty days I assign you, a day for each year.  
Ez0407 And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and you shall prophesy against the city.  
Ez0408 And behold, I will place cords upon you, so that you cannot turn from one side to the other, till you have completed the days of your siege.  
Ez0409 “And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it.  
Ez0410 And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it.  
Ez0411 And water you shall drink by measure, the sixth part of a hin; from day to day you shall drink.  
Ez0412 And you shall eat it as a barley cake, baking it in their sight on human dung.”  
Ez0413 And the LORD said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”  
Ez0414 Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth.”  
Ez0415 Then he said to me, “See, I assign to you cow’s dung instead of human dung, on which you may prepare your bread.”  
Ez0416 Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.  
Ez0417 I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and look at one another in dismay, and rot away because of their punishment.  
Ez0501 “And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber’s razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair.  
Ez0502 A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed. And a third part you shall take and strike with the sword all around the city. And a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.  
Ez0503 And you shall take from these a small number and bind them in the skirts of your robe.  
Ez0504 And of these again you shall take some and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire. From there a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.  
Ez0505 “Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.  
Ez0506 And she has rebelled against my rules by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries all around her; for they have rejected my rules and have not walked in my statutes.  
Ez0507 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you,  
Ez0508 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.  
Ez0509 And because of all your abominations I will do with you what I have never yet done, and the like of which I will never do again.  
Ez0510 Therefore fathers shall eat their sons in your midst, and sons shall eat their fathers. And I will execute judgments on you, and any of you who survive I will scatter to all the winds.  
Ez0511 Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw. My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.  
Ez0512 A third part of you shall die of pestilence and be consumed with famine in your midst; a third part shall fall by the sword all around you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds and will unsheathe the sword after them.  
Ez0513 “Thus shall my anger spend itself, and I will vent my fury upon them and satisfy myself. And they shall know that I am the LORD—that I have spoken in my jealousy—when I spend my fury upon them.  
Ez0514 Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of reproach among the nations all around you and in the sight of all who pass by.  
Ez0515 You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations all around you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious rebukes—I am the LORD; I have spoken—  
Ez0516 when I send against you the deadly arrows of famine, arrows for destruction, which I will send to destroy you, and when I bring more and more famine upon you and break your supply of bread.  
Ez0517 I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the LORD; I have spoken.”  
Ez0601 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez0602 “Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,  
Ez0603 and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.  
Ez0604 Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols.  
Ez0605 And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.  
Ez0606 Wherever you dwell, the cities shall be waste and the high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined, your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.  
Ez0607 And the slain shall fall in your midst, and you shall know that I am the LORD.  
Ez0608 “Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries,  
Ez0609 then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.  
Ez0610 And they shall know that I am the LORD. I have not said in vain that I would do this evil to them.”  
Ez0611 Thus says the Lord GOD: “Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.  
Ez0612 He who is far off shall die of pestilence, and he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who is left and is preserved shall die of famine. Thus I will spend my fury upon them.  
Ez0613 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols.  
Ez0614 And I will stretch out my hand against them and make the land desolate and waste, in all their dwelling places, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”  
Ez0701 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez0702 “And you, O son of man, thus says the Lord GOD to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.  
Ez0703 Now the end is upon you, and I will send my anger upon you; I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.  
Ez0704 And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD.  
Ez0705 “Thus says the Lord GOD: Disaster after disaster! Behold, it comes.  
Ez0706 An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes.  
Ez0707 Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting on the mountains.  
Ez0708 Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my anger against you, and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations.  
Ez0709 And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the LORD, who strikes.  
Ez0710 “Behold, the day! Behold, it comes! Your doom has come; the rod has blossomed; pride has budded.  
Ez0711 Violence has grown up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them.  
Ez0712 The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn, for wrath is upon all their multitude.  
Ez0713 For the seller shall not return to what he has sold, while they live. For the vision concerns all their multitude; it shall not turn back; and because of his iniquity, none can maintain his life.  
Ez0714 “They have blown the trumpet and made everything ready, but none goes to battle, for my wrath is upon all their multitude.  
Ez0715 The sword is without; pestilence and famine are within. He who is in the field dies by the sword, and him who is in the city famine and pestilence devour.  
Ez0716 And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity.  
Ez0717 All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water.  
Ez0718 They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.  
Ez0719 They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.  
Ez0720 His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them.  
Ez0721 And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for prey, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and they shall profane it.  
Ez0722 I will turn my face from them, and they shall profane my treasured place. Robbers shall enter and profane it.  
Ez0723 “Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.  
Ez0724 I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned.  
Ez0725 When anguish comes, they will seek peace, but there shall be none.  
Ez0726 Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor. They seek a vision from the prophet, while the law perishes from the priest and counsel from the elders.  
Ez0727 The king mourns, the prince is wrapped in despair, and the hands of the people of the land are paralyzed by terror. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they shall know that I am the LORD.”  
Ez0801 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, with the elders of Judah sitting before me, the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me there.  
Ez0802 Then I looked, and behold, a form that had the appearance of a man. Below what appeared to be his waist was fire, and above his waist was something like the appearance of brightness, like gleaming metal.  
Ez0803 He put out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.  
Ez0804 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I saw in the valley.  
Ez0805 Then he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of the altar gate, in the entrance, was this image of jealousy.  
Ez0806 And he said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”  
Ez0807 And he brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall.  
Ez0808 Then he said to me, “Son of man, dig in the wall.” So I dug in the wall, and behold, there was an entrance.  
Ez0809 And he said to me, “Go in, and see the vile abominations that they are committing here.”  
Ez0810 So I went in and saw. And there, engraved on the wall all around, was every form of creeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel.  
Ez0811 And before them stood seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and the smoke of the cloud of incense went up.  
Ez0812 Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of pictures? For they say, ‘The LORD does not see us, the LORD has forsaken the land.’”  
Ez0813 He said also to me, “You will see still greater abominations that they commit.”  
Ez0814 Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.  
Ez0815 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? You will see still greater abominations than these.”  
Ez0816 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east.  
Ez0817 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their nose.  
Ez0818 Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”  
Ez0901 Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, “Bring near the executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.”  
Ez0902 And behold, six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his weapon for slaughter in his hand, and with them was a man clothed in linen, with a writing case at his waist. And they went in and stood beside the bronze altar.  
Ez0903 Now the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub on which it rested to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writing case at his waist.  
Ez0904 And the LORD said to him, “Pass through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”  
Ez0905 And to the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and strike. Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity.  
Ez0906 Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.  
Ez0907 Then he said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out.” So they went out and struck in the city.  
Ez0908 And while they were striking, and I was left alone, I fell upon my face, and cried, “Ah, Lord GOD! Will you destroy all the remnant of Israel in the outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?”  
Ez0909 Then he said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD does not see.’  
Ez0910 As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will bring their deeds upon their heads.”  
Ez0911 And behold, the man clothed in linen, with the writing case at his waist, brought back word, saying, “I have done as you commanded me.”  
Ez1001 Then I looked, and behold, on the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim there appeared above them something like a sapphire, in appearance like a throne.  
Ez1002 And he said to the man clothed in linen, “Go in among the whirling wheels underneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” And he went in before my eyes.  
Ez1003 Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the house, when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.  
Ez1004 And the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub to the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD.  
Ez1005 And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when he speaks.  
Ez1006 And when he commanded the man clothed in linen, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” he went in and stood beside a wheel.  
Ez1007 And a cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it and put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who took it and went out.  
Ez1008 The cherubim appeared to have the form of a human hand under their wings.  
Ez1009 And I looked, and behold, there were four wheels beside the cherubim, one beside each cherub, and the appearance of the wheels was like sparkling beryl.  
Ez1010 And as for their appearance, the four had the same likeness, as if a wheel were within a wheel.  
Ez1011 When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went, but in whatever direction the front wheel faced, the others followed without turning as they went.  
Ez1012 And their whole body, their rims, and their spokes, their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes all around—the wheels that the four of them had.  
Ez1013 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing “the whirling wheels.”  
Ez1014 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was a human face, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.  
Ez1015 And the cherubim mounted up. These were the living creatures that I saw by the Chebar canal.  
Ez1016 And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them. And when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels did not turn from beside them.  
Ez1017 When they stood still, these stood still, and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in them.  
Ez1018 Then the glory of the LORD went out from the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubim.  
Ez1019 And the cherubim lifted up their wings and mounted up from the earth before my eyes as they went out, with the wheels beside them. And they stood at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.  
Ez1020 These were the living creatures that I saw underneath the God of Israel by the Chebar canal; and I knew that they were cherubim.  
Ez1021 Each had four faces, and each four wings, and underneath their wings the likeness of human hands.  
Ez1022 And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the Chebar canal. Each one of them went straight forward.  
Ez1101 The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of the LORD, which faces east. And behold, at the entrance of the gateway there were twenty-five men. And I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.  
Ez1102 And he said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city;  
Ez1103 who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This city is the cauldron, and we are the meat.’  
Ez1104 Therefore prophesy against them; prophesy, O son of man.”  
Ez1105 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and he said to me, “Say, Thus says the LORD: So you think, O house of Israel. For I know the things that come into your mind.  
Ez1106 You have multiplied your slain in this city and have filled its streets with the slain.  
Ez1107 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of it, they are the meat, and this city is the cauldron, but you shall be brought out of the midst of it.  
Ez1108 You have feared the sword, and I will bring the sword upon you, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez1109 And I will bring you out of the midst of it, and give you into the hands of foreigners, and execute judgments upon you.  
Ez1110 You shall fall by the sword. I will judge you at the border of Israel, and you shall know that I am the LORD.  
Ez1111 This city shall not be your cauldron, nor shall you be the meat in the midst of it. I will judge you at the border of Israel,  
Ez1112 and you shall know that I am the LORD. For you have not walked in my statutes, nor obeyed my rules, but have acted according to the rules of the nations that are around you.”  
Ez1113 And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face and cried out with a loud voice and said, “Ah, Lord GOD! Will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”  
Ez1114 And the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez1115 “Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, your kinsmen, the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Go far from the LORD; to us this land is given for a possession.’  
Ez1116 Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.’  
Ez1117 Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: I will gather you from the peoples and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.’  
Ez1118 And when they come there, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.  
Ez1119 And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,  
Ez1120 that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.  
Ez1121 But as for those whose heart goes after their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez1122 Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them.  
Ez1123 And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city and stood on the mountain that is on the east side of the city.  
Ez1124 And the Spirit lifted me up and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to the exiles. Then the vision that I had seen went up from me.  
Ez1125 And I told the exiles all the things that the LORD had shown me.  
Ez1201 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez1202 “Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not, for they are a rebellious house.  
Ez1203 As for you, son of man, prepare for yourself an exile’s baggage, and go into exile by day in their sight. You shall go like an exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.  
Ez1204 You shall bring out your baggage by day in their sight, as baggage for exile, and you shall go out yourself at evening in their sight, as those do who must go into exile.  
Ez1205 In their sight dig through the wall, and bring your baggage out through it.  
Ez1206 In their sight you shall lift the baggage upon your shoulder and carry it out at dusk. You shall cover your face that you may not see the land, for I have made you a sign for the house of Israel.”  
Ez1207 And I did as I was commanded. I brought out my baggage by day, as baggage for exile, and in the evening I dug through the wall with my own hands. I brought out my baggage at dusk, carrying it on my shoulder in their sight.  
Ez1208 In the morning the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez1209 “Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’  
Ez1210 Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: This oracle concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel who are in it.’  
Ez1211 Say, ‘I am a sign for you: as I have done, so shall it be done to them. They shall go into exile, into captivity.’  
Ez1212 And the prince who is among them shall lift his baggage upon his shoulder at dusk, and shall go out. They shall dig through the wall to bring him out through it. He shall cover his face, that he may not see the land with his eyes.  
Ez1213 And I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare. And I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, yet he shall not see it, and he shall die there.  
Ez1214 And I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops, and I will unsheathe the sword after them.  
Ez1215 And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.  
Ez1216 But I will let a few of them escape from the sword, from famine and pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they go, and may know that I am the LORD.”  
Ez1217 And the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez1218 “Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink water with trembling and with anxiety.  
Ez1219 And say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem in the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with anxiety, and drink water in dismay. In this way her land will be stripped of all it contains, on account of the violence of all those who dwell in it.  
Ez1220 And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the LORD.”  
Ez1221 And the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez1222 “Son of man, what is this proverb that you have about the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days grow long, and every vision comes to nothing’?  
Ez1223 Tell them therefore, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: I will put an end to this proverb, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel.’ But say to them, The days are near, and the fulfillment of every vision.  
Ez1224 For there shall be no more any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel.  
Ez1225 For I am the LORD; I will speak the word that I will speak, and it will be performed. It will no longer be delayed, but in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and perform it, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez1226 And the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez1227 “Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, ‘The vision that he sees is for many days from now, and he prophesies of times far off.’  
Ez1228 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: None of my words will be delayed any longer, but the word that I speak will be performed, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez1301 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez1302 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, who are prophesying, and say to those who prophesy from their own hearts: ‘Hear the word of the LORD!’  
Ez1303 Thus says the Lord GOD, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!  
Ez1304 Your prophets have been like jackals among ruins, O Israel.  
Ez1305 You have not gone up into the breaches, or built up a wall for the house of Israel, that it might stand in battle in the day of the LORD.  
Ez1306 They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘Declares the LORD,’ when the LORD has not sent them, and yet they expect him to fulfill their word.  
Ez1307 Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, whenever you have said, ‘Declares the LORD,’ although I have not spoken?”  
Ez1308 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez1309 My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and who give lying divinations. They shall not be in the council of my people, nor be enrolled in the register of the house of Israel, nor shall they enter the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.  
Ez1310 Precisely because they have misled my people, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, these prophets smear it with whitewash,  
Ez1311 say to those who smear it with whitewash that it shall fall! There will be a deluge of rain, and you, O great hailstones, will fall, and a stormy wind break out.  
Ez1312 And when the wall falls, will it not be said to you, ‘Where is the coating with which you smeared it?’  
Ez1313 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I will make a stormy wind break out in my wrath, and there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to make a full end.  
Ez1314 And I will break down the wall that you have smeared with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation will be laid bare. When it falls, you shall perish in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the LORD.  
Ez1315 Thus will I spend my wrath upon the wall and upon those who have smeared it with whitewash, and I will say to you, The wall is no more, nor those who smeared it,  
Ez1316 the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for her, when there was no peace, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez1317 “And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own hearts. Prophesy against them  
Ez1318 and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls! Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people and keep your own souls alive?  
Ez1319 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death souls who should not die and keeping alive souls who should not live, by your lying to my people, who listen to lies.  
Ez1320 “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against your magic bands with which you hunt the souls like birds, and I will tear them from your arms, and I will let the souls whom you hunt go free, the souls like birds.  
Ez1321 Your veils also I will tear off and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand as prey, and you shall know that I am the LORD.  
Ez1322 Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not grieved him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his evil way to save his life,  
Ez1323 therefore you shall no more see false visions nor practice divination. I will deliver my people out of your hand. And you shall know that I am the LORD.”  
Ez1401 Then certain of the elders of Israel came to me and sat before me.  
Ez1402 And the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez1403 “Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them?  
Ez1404 Therefore speak to them and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Any one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols,  
Ez1405 that I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, who are all estranged from me through their idols.  
Ez1406 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Repent and turn away from your idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations.  
Ez1407 For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to consult me through him, I the LORD will answer him myself.  
Ez1408 And I will set my face against that man; I will make him a sign and a byword and cut him off from the midst of my people, and you shall know that I am the LORD.  
Ez1409 And if the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the LORD, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.  
Ez1410 And they shall bear their punishment—the punishment of the prophet and the punishment of the inquirer shall be alike—  
Ez1411 that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, nor defile themselves anymore with all their transgressions, but that they may be my people and I may be their God, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez1412 And the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez1413 “Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,  
Ez1414 even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez1415 “If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts,  
Ez1416 even if these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would be desolate.  
Ez1417 “Or if I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, and I cut off from it man and beast,  
Ez1418 though these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered.  
Ez1419 “Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast,  
Ez1420 even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.  
Ez1421 “For thus says the Lord GOD: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!  
Ez1422 But behold, some survivors will be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out; behold, when they come out to you, and you see their ways and their deeds, you will be consoled for the disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem, for all that I have brought upon it.  
Ez1423 They will console you, when you see their ways and their deeds, and you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez1501 And the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez1502 “Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any wood, the vine branch that is among the trees of the forest?  
Ez1503 Is wood taken from it to make anything? Do people take a peg from it to hang any vessel on it?  
Ez1504 Behold, it is given to the fire for fuel. When the fire has consumed both ends of it, and the middle of it is charred, is it useful for anything?  
Ez1505 Behold, when it was whole, it was used for nothing. How much less, when the fire has consumed it and it is charred, can it ever be used for anything!  
Ez1506 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.  
Ez1507 And I will set my face against them. Though they escape from the fire, the fire shall yet consume them, and you will know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.  
Ez1508 And I will make the land desolate, because they have acted faithlessly, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez1601   Again the word of the LORD came to me:   
Ez1602 “Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,  
Ez1603 and say, Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.  
Ez1604 And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.  
Ez1605 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.  
Ez1606 “And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’  
Ez1607 I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.  
Ez1608 “When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord GOD, and you became mine.  
Ez1609 Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil.  
Ez1610 I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.  
Ez1611 And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.  
Ez1612 And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.  
Ez1613 Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.  
Ez1614 And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez1615 “But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore because of your renown and lavished your whorings on any passerby; your beauty became his.  
Ez1616 You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.  
Ez1617 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore.  
Ez1618 And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them.  
Ez1619 Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez1620 And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter  
Ez1621 that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?  
Ez1622 And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.  
Ez1623 “And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord GOD ),  
Ez1624 you built yourself a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square.  
Ez1625 At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.  
Ez1626 You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger.  
Ez1627 Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.  
Ez1628 You played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied.  
Ez1629 You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.  
Ez1630 “How sick is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,  
Ez1631 building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.  
Ez1632 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!  
Ez1633 Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.  
Ez1634 So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.  
Ez1635 “Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD:  
Ez1636 Thus says the Lord GOD, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,  
Ez1637 therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.  
Ez1638 And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.  
Ez1639 And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare.  
Ez1640 They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.  
Ez1641 And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more.  
Ez1642 So will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry.  
Ez1643 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?  
Ez1644 “Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’  
Ez1645 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.  
Ez1646 And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.  
Ez1647 Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.  
Ez1648 As I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.  
Ez1649 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.  
Ez1650 They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.  
Ez1651 Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.  
Ez1652 Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.  
Ez1653 “I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst,  
Ez1654 that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them.  
Ez1655 As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state.  
Ez1656 Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride,  
Ez1657 before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become an object of reproach for the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you.  
Ez1658 You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the LORD.  
Ez1659 “For thus says the Lord GOD: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant,  
Ez1660 yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.  
Ez1661 Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you.  
Ez1662 I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD,  
Ez1663 that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez1701 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez1702 “Son of man, propound a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;  
Ez1703 say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, rich in plumage of many colors, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.  
Ez1704 He broke off the topmost of its young twigs and carried it to a land of trade and set it in a city of merchants.  
Ez1705 Then he took of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil. He placed it beside abundant waters. He set it like a willow twig,  
Ez1706 and it sprouted and became a low spreading vine, and its branches turned toward him, and its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and produced branches and put out boughs.  
Ez1707 “And there was another great eagle with great wings and much plumage, and behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and shot forth its branches toward him from the bed where it was planted, that he might water it.  
Ez1708 It had been planted on good soil by abundant waters, that it might produce branches and bear fruit and become a noble vine.  
Ez1709 “Say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers, so that all its fresh sprouting leaves wither? It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it from its roots.  
Ez1710 Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it—wither away on the bed where it sprouted?”  
Ez1711 Then the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez1712 “Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took her king and her princes and brought them to him to Babylon.  
Ez1713 And he took one of the royal offspring and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath (the chief men of the land he had taken away),  
Ez1714 that the kingdom might be humble and not lift itself up, and keep his covenant that it might stand.  
Ez1715 But he rebelled against him by sending his ambassadors to Egypt, that they might give him horses and a large army. Will he thrive? Can one escape who does such things? Can he break the covenant and yet escape?  
Ez1716 “As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant with him he broke, in Babylon he shall die.  
Ez1717 Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in war, when mounds are cast up and siege walls built to cut off many lives.  
Ez1718 He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape.  
Ez1719 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely it is my oath that he despised, and my covenant that he broke. I will return it upon his head.  
Ez1720 I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treachery he has committed against me.  
Ez1721 And all the pick of his troops shall fall by the sword, and the survivors shall be scattered to every wind, and you shall know that I am the LORD; I have spoken.”  
Ez1722 Thus says the Lord GOD: “I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out. I will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.  
Ez1723 On the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bear branches and produce fruit and become a noble cedar. And under it will dwell every kind of bird; in the shade of its branches birds of every sort will nest.  
Ez1724 And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the LORD; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it.”  
Ez1801 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez1802 “What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?  
Ez1803 As I live, declares the Lord GOD, this proverb shall no more be used by you in Israel.  
Ez1804 Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.  
Ez1805 “If a man is righteous and does what is just and right—  
Ez1806 if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman in her time of menstrual impurity,  
Ez1807 does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,  
Ez1808 does not lend at interest or take any profit, withholds his hand from injustice, executes true justice between man and man,  
Ez1809 walks in my statutes, and keeps my rules by acting faithfully—he is righteous; he shall surely live, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez1810 “If he fathers a son who is violent, a shedder of blood, who does any of these things  
Ez1811 (though he himself did none of these things), who even eats upon the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife,  
Ez1812 oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,  
Ez1813 lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.  
Ez1814 “Now suppose this man fathers a son who sees all the sins that his father has done; he sees, and does not do likewise:  
Ez1815 he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,  
Ez1816 does not oppress anyone, exacts no pledge, commits no robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,  
Ez1817 withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or profit, obeys my rules, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father’s iniquity; he shall surely live.  
Ez1818 As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, behold, he shall die for his iniquity.  
Ez1819 “Yet you say, ‘Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done what is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.  
Ez1820 The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.  
Ez1821 “But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.  
Ez1822 None of the transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness that he has done he shall live.  
Ez1823 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord GOD, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?  
Ez1824 But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.  
Ez1825 “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?  
Ez1826 When a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it; for the injustice that he has done he shall die.  
Ez1827 Again, when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life.  
Ez1828 Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.  
Ez1829 Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, are my ways not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?  
Ez1830 “Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.  
Ez1831 Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?  
Ez1832 For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD; so turn, and live.”  
Ez1901 And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,  
Ez1902 and say: What was your mother? A lioness! Among lions she crouched; in the midst of young lions she reared her cubs.  
Ez1903 And she brought up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men.  
Ez1904 The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.  
Ez1905 When she saw that she waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.  
Ez1906 He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men,  
Ez1907 and seized their widows. He laid waste their cities, and the land was appalled and all who were in it at the sound of his roaring.  
Ez1908 Then the nations set against him from provinces on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.  
Ez1909 With hooks they put him in a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into custody, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.  
Ez1910 Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard planted by the water, fruitful and full of branches by reason of abundant water.  
Ez1911 Its strong stems became rulers’ scepters; it towered aloft among the thick boughs; it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.  
Ez1912 But the vine was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground; the east wind dried up its fruit; they were stripped off and withered. As for its strong stem, fire consumed it.  
Ez1913 Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.  
Ez1914 And fire has gone out from the stem of its shoots, has consumed its fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for ruling. This is a lamentation and has become a lamentation.  
Ez2001 In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of the LORD, and sat before me.  
Ez2002 And the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez2003 “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD, Is it to inquire of me that you come? As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.  
Ez2004 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Let them know the abominations of their fathers,  
Ez2005 and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day when I chose Israel, I swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, making myself known to them in the land of Egypt; I swore to them, saying, I am the LORD your God.  
Ez2006 On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands.  
Ez2007 And I said to them, ‘Cast away the detestable things your eyes feast on, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.’  
Ez2008 But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. None of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. “Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.  
Ez2009 But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.  
Ez2010 So I led them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.  
Ez2011 I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live.  
Ez2012 Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.  
Ez2013 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. “Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.  
Ez2014 But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.  
Ez2015 Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most glorious of all lands,  
Ez2016 because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.  
Ez2017 Nevertheless, my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or make a full end of them in the wilderness.  
Ez2018 “And I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols.  
Ez2019 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules,  
Ez2020 and keep my Sabbaths holy that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’  
Ez2021 But the children rebelled against me. They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths. “Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.  
Ez2022 But I withheld my hand and acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.  
Ez2023 Moreover, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them through the countries,  
Ez2024 because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers’ idols.  
Ez2025 Moreover, I gave them statutes that were not good and rules by which they could not have life,  
Ez2026 and I defiled them through their very gifts in their offering up all their firstborn, that I might devastate them. I did it that they might know that I am the LORD.  
Ez2027 “Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: In this also your fathers blasphemed me, by dealing treacherously with me.  
Ez2028 For when I had brought them into the land that I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings.  
Ez2029 (I said to them, ‘What is the high place to which you go?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day.)  
Ez2030 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Will you defile yourselves after the manner of your fathers and go whoring after their detestable things?  
Ez2031 When you present your gifts and offer up your children in fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you.  
Ez2032 “What is in your mind shall never happen—the thought, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the tribes of the countries, and worship wood and stone.’  
Ez2033 “As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out I will be king over you.  
Ez2034 I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out.  
Ez2035 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.  
Ez2036 As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez2037 I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.  
Ez2038 I will purge out the rebels from among you, and those who transgress against me. I will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.  
Ez2039 “As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord GOD: Go serve every one of you his idols, now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols.  
Ez2040 “For on my holy mountain, the mountain height of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, there all the house of Israel, all of them, shall serve me in the land. There I will accept them, and there I will require your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your sacred offerings.  
Ez2041 As a pleasing aroma I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you out of the countries where you have been scattered. And I will manifest my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.  
Ez2042 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I bring you into the land of Israel, the country that I swore to give to your fathers.  
Ez2043 And there you shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.  
Ez2044 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I deal with you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez2045 And the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez2046 “Son of man, set your face toward the southland; preach against the south, and prophesy against the forest land in the Negeb.  
Ez2047 Say to the forest of the Negeb, Hear the word of the LORD: Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you and every dry tree. The blazing flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from south to north shall be scorched by it.  
Ez2048 All flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.”  
Ez2049 Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! They are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of parables?’”  
Ez2101 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez2102 “Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel  
Ez2103 and say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am against you and will draw my sword from its sheath and will cut off from you both righteous and wicked.  
Ez2104 Because I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword shall be drawn from its sheath against all flesh from south to north.  
Ez2105 And all flesh shall know that I am the LORD. I have drawn my sword from its sheath; it shall not be sheathed again.  
Ez2106 “As for you, son of man, groan; with breaking heart and bitter grief, groan before their eyes.  
Ez2107 And when they say to you, ‘Why do you groan?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the news that it is coming. Every heart will melt, and all hands will be feeble; every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it is coming, and it will be fulfilled,’” declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez2108 And the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez2109 “Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord, say: “A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished,  
Ez2110 sharpened for slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! (Or shall we rejoice? You have despised the rod, my son, with everything of wood.)  
Ez2111 So the sword is given to be polished, that it may be grasped in the hand. It is sharpened and polished to be given into the hand of the slayer.  
Ez2112 Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people. It is against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with my people. Strike therefore upon your thigh.  
Ez2113 For it will not be a testing—what could it do if you despise the rod?” declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez2114 “As for you, son of man, prophesy. Clap your hands and let the sword come down twice, yes, three times, the sword for those to be slain. It is the sword for the great slaughter, which surrounds them,  
Ez2115 that their hearts may melt, and many stumble. At all their gates I have given the glittering sword. Ah, it is made like lightning; it is taken up for slaughter.  
Ez2116 Cut sharply to the right; set yourself to the left, wherever your face is directed.  
Ez2117 I also will clap my hands, and I will satisfy my fury; I the LORD have spoken.”  
Ez2118 The word of the LORD came to me again:  
Ez2119 “As for you, son of man, mark two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come. Both of them shall come from the same land. And make a signpost; make it at the head of the way to a city.  
Ez2120 Mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah, into Jerusalem the fortified.  
Ez2121 For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows; he consults the teraphim; he looks at the liver.  
Ez2122 Into his right hand comes the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth with murder, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build siege towers.  
Ez2123 But to them it will seem like a false divination. They have sworn solemn oaths, but he brings their guilt to remembrance, that they may be taken.  
Ez2124 “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have made your guilt to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins appear—because you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken in hand.  
Ez2125 And you, O profane wicked one, prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of your final punishment,  
Ez2126 thus says the Lord GOD: Remove the turban and take off the crown. Things shall not remain as they are. Exalt that which is low, and bring low that which is exalted.  
Ez2127 A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This also shall not be, until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him.  
Ez2128 “And you, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach; say, A sword, a sword is drawn for the slaughter. It is polished to consume and to flash like lightning—  
Ez2129 while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you—to place you on the necks of the profane wicked, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.  
Ez2130 Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.  
Ez2131 And I will pour out my indignation upon you; I will blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and I will deliver you into the hands of brutish men, skillful to destroy.  
Ez2132 You shall be fuel for the fire. Your blood shall be in the midst of the land. You shall be no more remembered, for I the LORD have spoken.”  
Ez2201 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,  
Ez2202 “And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.  
Ez2203 You shall say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself!  
Ez2204 You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.  
Ez2205 Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; your name is defiled; you are full of tumult.  
Ez2206 “Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.  
Ez2207 Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.  
Ez2208 You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths.  
Ez2209 There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst.  
Ez2210 In you men uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity.  
Ez2211 One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter- in-law; another in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter.  
Ez2212 In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez2213 “Behold, I strike my hand at the dishonest gain that you have made, and at the blood that has been in your midst.  
Ez2214 Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.  
Ez2215 I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you.  
Ez2216 And you shall be profaned by your own doing in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the LORD.”  
Ez2217   And the word of the LORD came to me:   
Ez2218 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver.  
Ez2219 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.  
Ez2220 As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.  
Ez2221 I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it.  
Ez2222 As silver is melted in a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the LORD; I have poured out my wrath upon you.”  
Ez2223 And the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez2224 “Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed or rained upon in the day of indignation.  
Ez2225 The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.  
Ez2226 Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.  
Ez2227 Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.  
Ez2228 And her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ when the LORD has not spoken.  
Ez2229 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without justice.  
Ez2230 And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.  
Ez2231 Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned their way upon their heads, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez2301 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez2302 “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.  
Ez2303 They played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled.  
Ez2304 Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.  
Ez2305 “Oholah played the whore while she was mine, and she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors  
Ez2306 clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.  
Ez2307 She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted.  
Ez2308 She did not give up her whoring that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her.  
Ez2309 Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.  
Ez2310 These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed on her.  
Ez2311 “Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became more corrupt than her sister in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister.  
Ez2312 She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.  
Ez2313 And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way.  
Ez2314 But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,  
Ez2315 wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea.  
Ez2316 When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.  
Ez2317 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, she turned from them in disgust.  
Ez2318 When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister.  
Ez2319 Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt  
Ez2320 and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.  
Ez2321 Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed your young breasts.”  
Ez2322 Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:  
Ez2323 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.  
Ez2324 And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.  
Ez2325 And I will direct my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire.  
Ez2326 They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.  
Ez2327 Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.  
Ez2328 “For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust,  
Ez2329 and they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring  
Ez2330 have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.  
Ez2331 You have gone the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.  
Ez2332 Thus says the Lord GOD: “You shall drink your sister’s cup that is deep and large; you shall be laughed at and held in derision, for it contains much;  
Ez2333 you will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow. A cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria;  
Ez2334 you shall drink it and drain it out, and gnaw its shards, and tear your breasts; for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez2335 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring.”  
Ez2336 The LORD said to me: “Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations.  
Ez2337 For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.  
Ez2338 Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths.  
Ez2339 For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house.  
Ez2340 They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.  
Ez2341 You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.  
Ez2342 The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort, drunkards were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of the women, and beautiful crowns on their heads.  
Ez2343 “Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her!’  
Ez2344 For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, lewd women!  
Ez2345 But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.”  
Ez2346 For thus says the Lord GOD: “Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder.  
Ez2347 And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.  
Ez2348 Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.  
Ez2349 And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.”  
Ez2401 In the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez2402 “Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.  
Ez2403 And utter a parable to the rebellious house and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Set on the pot, set it on; pour in water also;  
Ez2404 put in it the pieces of meat, all the good pieces, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.  
Ez2405 Take the choicest one of the flock; pile the logs under it; boil it well; seethe also its bones in it.  
Ez2406 “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose corrosion is in it, and whose corrosion has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice.  
Ez2407 For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on the bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust.  
Ez2408 To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have set on the bare rock the blood she has shed, that it may not be covered.  
Ez2409 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.  
Ez2410 Heap on the logs, kindle the fire, boil the meat well, mix in the spices, and let the bones be burned up.  
Ez2411 Then set it empty upon the coals, that it may become hot, and its copper may burn, that its uncleanness may be melted in it, its corrosion consumed.  
Ez2412 She has wearied herself with toil; its abundant corrosion does not go out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion!  
Ez2413 On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, you shall not be cleansed anymore till I have satisfied my fury upon you.  
Ez2414 I am the LORD. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; I will not spare; I will not relent; according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez2415 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez2416 “Son of man, behold, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you at a stroke; yet you shall not mourn or weep, nor shall your tears run down.  
Ez2417 Sigh, but not aloud; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban, and put your shoes on your feet; do not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.”  
Ez2418 So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did as I was commanded.  
Ez2419 And the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things mean for us, that you are acting thus?”  
Ez2420 Then I said to them, “The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez2421 ‘Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the yearning of your soul, and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.  
Ez2422 And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.  
Ez2423 Your turbans shall be on your heads and your shoes on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but you shall rot away in your iniquities and groan to one another.  
Ez2424 Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has done you shall do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’  
Ez2425 “As for you, son of man, surely on the day when I take from them their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their soul’s desire, and also their sons and daughters,  
Ez2426 on that day a fugitive will come to you to report to you the news.  
Ez2427 On that day your mouth will be opened to the fugitive, and you shall speak and be no longer mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD.”  
Ez2501 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez2502 “Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.  
Ez2503 Say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD, Because you said, ‘Aha!’ over my sanctuary when it was profaned, and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and over the house of Judah when they went into exile,  
Ez2504 therefore behold, I am handing you over to the people of the East for a possession, and they shall set their encampments among you and make their dwellings in your midst. They shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.  
Ez2505 I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon a fold for flocks. Then you will know that I am the LORD.  
Ez2506 For thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the malice within your soul against the land of Israel,  
Ez2507 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.  
Ez2508 “Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Moab and Seir said, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,’  
Ez2509 therefore I will lay open the flank of Moab from the cities, from its cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim.  
Ez2510 I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations,  
Ez2511 and I will execute judgments upon Moab. Then they will know that I am the LORD.  
Ez2512 “Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended in taking vengeance on them,  
Ez2513 therefore thus says the Lord GOD, I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it man and beast. And I will make it desolate; from Teman even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.  
Ez2514 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez2515 “Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the Philistines acted revengefully and took vengeance with malice of soul to destroy in never-ending enmity,  
Ez2516 therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the rest of the seacoast.  
Ez2517 I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay my vengeance upon them.”  
Ez2601 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez2602 “Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,’  
Ez2603 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.  
Ez2604 They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers, and I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.  
Ez2605 She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. And she shall become plunder for the nations,  
Ez2606 and her daughters on the mainland shall be killed by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.  
Ez2607 “For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers.  
Ez2608 He will kill with the sword your daughters on the mainland. He will set up a siege wall against you and throw up a mound against you, and raise a roof of shields against you.  
Ez2609 He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.  
Ez2610 His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter a city that has been breached.  
Ez2611 With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.  
Ez2612 They will plunder your riches and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. Your stones and timber and soil they will cast into the midst of the waters.  
Ez2613 And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.  
Ez2614 I will make you a bare rock. You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall never be rebuilt, for I am the LORD; I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez2615 “Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Will not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter is made in your midst?  
Ez2616 Then all the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones and remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground and tremble every moment and be appalled at you.  
Ez2617 And they will raise a lamentation over you and say to you, “‘How you have perished, you who were inhabited from the seas, O city renowned, who was mighty on the sea; she and her inhabitants imposed their terror on all her inhabitants!  
Ez2618 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall, and the coastlands that are on the sea are dismayed at your passing.’  
Ez2619 “For thus says the Lord GOD: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you,  
Ez2620 then I will make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty in the land of the living.  
Ez2621 I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more. Though you be sought for, you will never be found again, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez2701 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez2702 “Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre,  
Ez2703 and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrances to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, thus says the Lord GOD: “O Tyre, you have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’  
Ez2704 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders made perfect your beauty.  
Ez2705 They made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.  
Ez2706 Of oaks of Bashan they made your oars; they made your deck of pines from the coasts of Cyprus, inlaid with ivory.  
Ez2707 Of fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail, serving as your banner; blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was your awning.  
Ez2708 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; your skilled men, O Tyre, were in you; they were your pilots.  
Ez2709 The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were in you, caulking your seams; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to barter for your wares.  
Ez2710 “Persia and Lud and Put were in your army as your men of war. They hung the shield and helmet in you; they gave you splendor.  
Ez2711 Men of Arvad and Helech were on your walls all around, and men of Gamad were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around; they made perfect your beauty.  
Ez2712 “Tarshish did business with you because of your great wealth of every kind; silver, iron, tin, and lead they exchanged for your wares.  
Ez2713 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged human beings and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.  
Ez2714 From Beth-togarmah they exchanged horses, war horses, and mules for your wares.  
Ez2715 The men of Dedan traded with you. Many coastlands were your own special markets; they brought you in payment ivory tusks and ebony.  
Ez2716 Syria did business with you because of your abundant goods; they exchanged for your wares emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and ruby.  
Ez2717 Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, meal, honey, oil, and balm.  
Ez2718 Damascus did business with you for your abundant goods, because of your great wealth of every kind; wine of Helbon and wool of Sahar  
Ez2719 and casks of wine from Uzal they exchanged for your wares; wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were bartered for your merchandise.  
Ez2720 Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding.  
Ez2721 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your favored dealers in lambs, rams, and goats; in these they did business with you.  
Ez2722 The traders of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; they exchanged for your wares the best of all kinds of spices and all precious stones and gold.  
Ez2723 Haran, Canneh, Eden, traders of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.  
Ez2724 In your market these traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of blue and embroidered work, and in carpets of colored material, bound with cords and made secure.  
Ez2725 The ships of Tarshish traveled for you with your merchandise. So you were filled and heavily laden in the heart of the seas.  
Ez2726 “Your rowers have brought you out into the high seas. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.  
Ez2727 Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and your pilots, your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you, with all your crew that is in your midst, sink into the heart of the seas on the day of your fall.  
Ez2728 At the sound of the cry of your pilots the countryside shakes,  
Ez2729 and down from their ships come all who handle the oar. The mariners and all the pilots of the sea stand on the land  
Ez2730 and shout aloud over you and cry out bitterly. They cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes;  
Ez2731 they make themselves bald for you and put sackcloth on their waist, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.  
Ez2732 In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you and lament over you: ‘Who is like Tyre, like one destroyed in the midst of the sea?  
Ez2733 When your wares came from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with your abundant wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.  
Ez2734 Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your crew in your midst have sunk with you.  
Ez2735 All the inhabitants of the coastlands are appalled at you, and the hair of their kings bristles with horror; their faces are convulsed.  
Ez2736 The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever.’”  
Ez2801 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez2802 “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,’ yet you are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god—  
Ez2803 you are indeed wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you;  
Ez2804 by your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;  
Ez2805 by your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth—  
Ez2806 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you make your heart like the heart of a god,  
Ez2807 therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.  
Ez2808 They shall thrust you down into the pit, and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas.  
Ez2809 Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who kill you, though you are but a man, and no god, in the hands of those who slay you?  
Ez2810 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners; for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez2811 Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez2812 “Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD: “You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.  
Ez2813 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle; and crafted in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared.  
Ez2814 You were an anointed guardian cherub. I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.  
Ez2815 You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you.  
Ez2816 In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.  
Ez2817 Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.  
Ez2818 By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries; so I brought fire out from your midst; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all who saw you.  
Ez2819 All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever.”  
Ez2820 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez2821 “Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her  
Ez2822 and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, and I will manifest my glory in your midst. And they shall know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments in her and manifest my holiness in her;  
Ez2823 for I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the slain shall fall in her midst, by the sword that is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD.  
Ez2824 “And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.  
Ez2825 “Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob.  
Ez2826 And they shall dwell securely in it, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards. They shall dwell securely, when I execute judgments upon all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.”  
Ez2901 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez2902 “Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt;  
Ez2903 speak, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, ‘My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.’  
Ez2904 I will put hooks in your jaws, and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales; and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams, with all the fish of your streams that stick to your scales.  
Ez2905 And I will cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your streams; you shall fall on the open field, and not be brought together or gathered. To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens I give you as food.  
Ez2906 Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD. “Because you have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel,  
Ez2907 when they grasped you with the hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke and made all their loins to shake.  
Ez2908 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast,  
Ez2909 and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD. “Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I made it,’  
Ez2910 therefore, behold, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush.  
Ez2911 No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.  
Ez2912 And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.  
Ez2913 “For thus says the Lord GOD: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered,  
Ez2914 and I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin, and there they shall be a lowly kingdom.  
Ez2915 It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations.  
Ez2916 And it shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.”  
Ez2917 In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez2918 “Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare, yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had performed against her.  
Ez2919 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off its wealth and despoil it and plunder it; and it shall be the wages for his army.  
Ez2920 I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he labored, because they worked for me, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez2921 “On that day I will cause a horn to spring up for the house of Israel, and I will open your lips among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”  
Ez3001 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez3002 “Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’  
Ez3003 For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.  
Ez3004 A sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish shall be in Cush, when the slain fall in Egypt, and her wealth is carried away, and her foundations are torn down.  
Ez3005 Cush, and Put, and Lud, and all Arabia, and Libya, and the people of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.  
Ez3006 “Thus says the LORD: Those who support Egypt shall fall, and her proud might shall come down; from Migdol to Syene they shall fall within her by the sword, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez3007 And they shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries, and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.  
Ez3008 Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have set fire to Egypt, and all her helpers are broken.  
Ez3009 “On that day messengers shall go out from me in ships to terrify the unsuspecting people of Cush, and anguish shall come upon them on the day of Egypt’s doom; for, behold, it comes!  
Ez3010 “Thus says the Lord GOD: “I will put an end to the wealth of Egypt, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.  
Ez3011 He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land, and they shall draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.  
Ez3012 And I will dry up the Nile and will sell the land into the hand of evildoers; I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it, by the hand of foreigners; I am the LORD; I have spoken.  
Ez3013 “Thus says the Lord GOD: “I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis; there shall no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt; so I will put fear in the land of Egypt.  
Ez3014 I will make Pathros a desolation and will set fire to Zoan and will execute judgments on Thebes.  
Ez3015 And I will pour out my wrath on Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and cut off the multitude of Thebes.  
Ez3016 And I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium shall be in great agony; Thebes shall be breached, and Memphis shall face enemies by day.  
Ez3017 The young men of On and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword, and the women shall go into captivity.  
Ez3018 At Tehaphnehes the day shall be dark, when I break there the yoke bars of Egypt, and her proud might shall come to an end in her; she shall be covered by a cloud, and her daughters shall go into captivity.  
Ez3019 Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”  
Ez3020 In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez3021 “Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and behold, it has not been bound up, to heal it by binding it with a bandage, so that it may become strong to wield the sword.  
Ez3022 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms, both the strong arm and the one that was broken, and I will make the sword fall from his hand.  
Ez3023 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them through the countries.  
Ez3024 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put my sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him like a man mortally wounded.  
Ez3025 I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall. Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.  
Ez3026 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”  
Ez3101 In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez3102 “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: “Whom are you like in your greatness?  
Ez3103 Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and forest shade, and of towering height, its top among the clouds.  
Ez3104 The waters nourished it; the deep made it grow tall, making its rivers flow around the place of its planting, sending forth its streams to all the trees of the field.  
Ez3105 So it towered high above all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches long from abundant water in its shoots.  
Ez3106 All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and under its shadow lived all great nations.  
Ez3107 It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant waters.  
Ez3108 The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; neither were the plane trees like its branches; no tree in the garden of God was its equal in beauty.  
Ez3109 I made it beautiful in the mass of its branches, and all the trees of Eden envied it, that were in the garden of God.  
Ez3110 “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of its height,  
Ez3111 I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.  
Ez3112 Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land, and all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it.  
Ez3113 On its fallen trunk dwell all the birds of the heavens, and on its branches are all the beasts of the field.  
Ez3114 All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds, and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For they are all given over to death, to the world below, among the children of man, with those who go down to the pit.  
Ez3115 “Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day the cedar went down to Sheol I caused mourning; I closed the deep over it, and restrained its rivers, and many waters were stopped. I clothed Lebanon in gloom for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.  
Ez3116 I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the world below.  
Ez3117 They also went down to Sheol with it, to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were its arm, who lived under its shadow among the nations.  
Ez3118 “Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below. You shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez3201 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez3202 “Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: “You consider yourself a lion of the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.  
Ez3203 Thus says the Lord GOD: I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples, and they will haul you up in my dragnet.  
Ez3204 And I will cast you on the ground; on the open field I will fling you, and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle on you, and I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you.  
Ez3205 I will strew your flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with your carcass.  
Ez3206 I will drench the land even to the mountains with your flowing blood, and the ravines will be full of you.  
Ez3207 When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.  
Ez3208 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and put darkness on your land, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez3209 “I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries that you have not known.  
Ez3210 I will make many peoples appalled at you, and the hair of their kings shall bristle with horror because of you, when I brandish my sword before them. They shall tremble every moment, every one for his own life, on the day of your downfall.  
Ez3211 “For thus says the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you.  
Ez3212 I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of mighty ones, all of them most ruthless of nations. “They shall bring to ruin the pride of Egypt, and all its multitude shall perish.  
Ez3213 I will destroy all its beasts from beside many waters; and no foot of man shall trouble them anymore, nor shall the hoofs of beasts trouble them.  
Ez3214 Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez3215 When I make the land of Egypt desolate, and when the land is desolate of all that fills it, when I strike down all who dwell in it, then they will know that I am the LORD.  
Ez3216 This is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez3217 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez3218 “Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the world below, to those who have gone down to the pit:  
Ez3219 ‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised.’  
Ez3220 They shall fall amid those who are slain by the sword. Egypt is delivered to the sword; drag her away, and all her multitudes.  
Ez3221 The mighty chiefs shall speak of them, with their helpers, out of the midst of Sheol: ‘They have come down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’  
Ez3222 “Assyria is there, and all her company, its graves all around it, all of them slain, fallen by the sword,  
Ez3223 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit; and her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.  
Ez3224 “Elam is there, and all her multitude around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised into the world below, who spread their terror in the land of the living; and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.  
Ez3225 They have made her a bed among the slain with all her multitude, her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for terror of them was spread in the land of the living, and they bear their shame with those who go down to the pit; they are placed among the slain.  
Ez3226 “Meshech-Tubal is there, and all her multitude, her graves all around it, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they spread their terror in the land of the living.  
Ez3227 And they do not lie with the mighty, the fallen from among the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were laid under their heads, and whose iniquities are upon their bones; for the terror of the mighty men was in the land of the living.  
Ez3228 But as for you, you shall be broken and lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.  
Ez3229 “Edom is there, her kings and all her princes, who for all their might are laid with those who are killed by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised, with those who go down to the pit.  
Ez3230 “The princes of the north are there, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down in shame with the slain, for all the terror that they caused by their might; they lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.  
Ez3231 “When Pharaoh sees them, he will be comforted for all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez3232 For I spread terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid to rest among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez3301 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez3302 “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and make him their watchman,  
Ez3303 and if he sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people,  
Ez3304 then if anyone who hears the sound of the trumpet does not take warning, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.  
Ez3305 He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life.  
Ez3306 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.  
Ez3307 “So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.  
Ez3308 If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.  
Ez3309 But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, that person shall die in his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.  
Ez3310 “And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, Thus have you said: ‘Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we rot away because of them. How then can we live?’  
Ez3311 Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?  
Ez3312 “And you, son of man, say to your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness when he sins.  
Ez3313 Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die.  
Ez3314 Again, though I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ yet if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right,  
Ez3315 if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die.  
Ez3316 None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.  
Ez3317 “Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just,’ when it is their own way that is not just.  
Ez3318 When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it.  
Ez3319 And when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he shall live by this.  
Ez3320 Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ O house of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his ways.”  
Ez3321 In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has been struck down.”  
Ez3322 Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came; and he had opened my mouth by the time the man came to me in the morning, so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.  
Ez3323 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez3324 “Son of man, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.’  
Ez3325 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: You eat flesh with the blood and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?  
Ez3326 You rely on the sword, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife; shall you then possess the land?  
Ez3327 Say this to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword, and whoever is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in strongholds and in caves shall die by pestilence.  
Ez3328 And I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and her proud might shall come to an end, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that none will pass through.  
Ez3329 Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations that they have committed.  
Ez3330 “As for you, son of man, your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to his brother, ‘Come, and hear what the word is that comes from the LORD.’  
Ez3331 And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.  
Ez3332 And behold, you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument, for they hear what you say, but they will not do it.  
Ez3333 When this comes—and come it will!—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”  
Ez3401 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez3402 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord GOD: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep?  
Ez3403 You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep.  
Ez3404 The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.  
Ez3405 So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered;  
Ez3406 they wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over all the face of the earth, with none to search or seek for them.  
Ez3407 “Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:  
Ez3408 As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely because my sheep have become a prey, and my sheep have become food for all the wild beasts, since there was no shepherd, and because my shepherds have not searched for my sheep, but the shepherds have fed themselves, and have not fed my sheep,  
Ez3409 therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:  
Ez3410 Thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will require my sheep at their hand and put a stop to their feeding the sheep. No longer shall the shepherds feed themselves. I will rescue my sheep from their mouths, that they may not be food for them.  
Ez3411 “For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out.  
Ez3412 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.  
Ez3413 And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. And I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the country.  
Ez3414 I will feed them with good pasture, and on the mountain heights of Israel shall be their grazing land. There they shall lie down in good grazing land, and on rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel.  
Ez3415 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez3416 I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.  
Ez3417 “As for you, my flock, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and male goats.  
Ez3418 Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture; and to drink of clear water, that you must muddy the rest of the water with your feet?  
Ez3419 And must my sheep eat what you have trodden with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet?  
Ez3420 “Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.  
Ez3421 Because you push with side and shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad,  
Ez3422 I will rescue my flock; they shall no longer be a prey. And I will judge between sheep and sheep.  
Ez3423 And I will set up over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he shall feed them: he shall feed them and be their shepherd.  
Ez3424 And I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David shall be prince among them. I am the LORD; I have spoken.  
Ez3425 “I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild beasts from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.  
Ez3426 And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.  
Ez3427 And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land. And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke, and deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them.  
Ez3428 They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them. They shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.  
Ez3429 And I will provide for them renowned plantations so that they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, and no longer suffer the reproach of the nations.  
Ez3430 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez3431 And you are my sheep, human sheep of my pasture, and I am your God, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez3501 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez3502 “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,  
Ez3503 and say to it, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a waste.  
Ez3504 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the LORD.  
Ez3505 Because you cherished perpetual enmity and gave over the people of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment,  
Ez3506 therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; because you did not hate bloodshed, therefore blood shall pursue you.  
Ez3507 I will make Mount Seir a waste and a desolation, and I will cut off from it all who come and go.  
Ez3508 And I will fill its mountains with the slain. On your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those slain with the sword shall fall.  
Ez3509 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.  
Ez3510 “Because you said, ‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will take possession of them’—although the LORD was there—  
Ez3511 therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will deal with you according to the anger and envy that you showed because of your hatred against them. And I will make myself known among them, when I judge you.  
Ez3512 And you shall know that I am the LORD. “I have heard all the revilings that you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are laid desolate; they are given us to devour.’  
Ez3513 And you magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and multiplied your words against me; I heard it.  
Ez3514 Thus says the Lord GOD: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.  
Ez3515 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD.  
Ez3601 “And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.  
Ez3602 Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the enemy said of you, ‘Aha!’ and, ‘The ancient heights have become our possession,’  
Ez3603 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people,  
Ez3604 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD to the mountains and the hills, the ravines and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted cities, which have become a prey and derision to the rest of the nations all around,  
Ez3605 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.  
Ez3606 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I have spoken in my jealous wrath, because you have suffered the reproach of the nations.  
Ez3607 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer reproach.  
Ez3608 “But you, O mountains of Israel, shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people Israel, for they will soon come home.  
Ez3609 For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.  
Ez3610 And I will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt.  
Ez3611 And I will multiply on you man and beast, and they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, and will do more good to you than ever before. Then you will know that I am the LORD.  
Ez3612 I will let people walk on you, even my people Israel. And they shall possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no longer bereave them of children.  
Ez3613 Thus says the Lord GOD: Because they say to you, ‘You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,’  
Ez3614 therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez3615 And I will not let you hear anymore the reproach of the nations, and you shall no longer bear the disgrace of the peoples and no longer cause your nation to stumble, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez3616 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez3617 “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity.  
Ez3618 So I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood that they had shed in the land, for the idols with which they had defiled it.  
Ez3619 I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the countries. In accordance with their ways and their deeds I judged them.  
Ez3620 But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.’  
Ez3621 But I had concern for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they came.  
Ez3622 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.  
Ez3623 And I will vindicate the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them. And the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when through you I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.  
Ez3624 I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.  
Ez3625 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.  
Ez3626 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.  
Ez3627 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.  
Ez3628 You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God.  
Ez3629 And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. And I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you.  
Ez3630 I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant, that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.  
Ez3631 Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations.  
Ez3632 It is not for your sake that I will act, declares the Lord GOD; let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.  
Ez3633 “Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt.  
Ez3634 And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by.  
Ez3635 And they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden, and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are now fortified and inhabited.’  
Ez3636 Then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the LORD; I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted that which was desolate. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it.  
Ez3637 “Thus says the Lord GOD: This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock.  
Ez3638 Like the flock for sacrifices, like the flock at Jerusalem during her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”  
Ez3701 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones.  
Ez3702 And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry.  
Ez3703 And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord GOD, you know.”  
Ez3704 Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.  
Ez3705 Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.  
Ez3706 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the LORD.”  
Ez3707 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone.  
Ez3708 And I looked, and behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them. But there was no breath in them.  
Ez3709 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.”  
Ez3710 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.  
Ez3711 Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.’  
Ez3712 Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And I will bring you into the land of Israel.  
Ez3713 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people.  
Ez3714 And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the LORD.”  
Ez3715 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez3716 “Son of man, take a stick and write on it, ‘For Judah, and the people of Israel associated with him’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.’  
Ez3717 And join them one to another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.  
Ez3718 And when your people say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what you mean by these?’  
Ez3719 say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am about to take the stick of Joseph (that is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him. And I will join with it the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, that they may be one in my hand.  
Ez3720 When the sticks on which you write are in your hand before their eyes,  
Ez3721 then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land.  
Ez3722 And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.  
Ez3723 They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.  
Ez3724 “My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.  
Ez3725 They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children’s children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever.  
Ez3726 I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.  
Ez3727 My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  
Ez3728 Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”  
Ez3801 The word of the LORD came to me:  
Ez3802 “Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him  
Ez3803 and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.  
Ez3804 And I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords.  
Ez3805 Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;  
Ez3806 Gomer and all his hordes; Beth-togarmah from the uttermost parts of the north with all his hordes—many peoples are with you.  
Ez3807 “Be ready and keep ready, you and all your hosts that are assembled about you, and be a guard for them.  
Ez3808 After many days you will be mustered. In the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war, the land whose people were gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples and now dwell securely, all of them.  
Ez3809 You will advance, coming on like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.  
Ez3810 “Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day, thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme  
Ez3811 and say, ‘I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,’  
Ez3812 to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth.  
Ez3813 Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its leaders will say to you, ‘Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?’  
Ez3814 “Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day when my people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not know it?  
Ez3815 You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army.  
Ez3816 You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.  
Ez3817 “Thus says the Lord GOD: Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?  
Ez3818 But on that day, the day that Gog shall come against the land of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, my wrath will be roused in my anger.  
Ez3819 For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.  
Ez3820 The fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the people who are on the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground.  
Ez3821 I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Lord GOD. Every man’s sword will be against his brother.  
Ez3822 With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.  
Ez3823 So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.  
Ez3901 “And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.  
Ez3902 And I will turn you about and drive you forward, and bring you up from the uttermost parts of the north, and lead you against the mountains of Israel.  
Ez3903 Then I will strike your bow from your left hand, and will make your arrows drop out of your right hand.  
Ez3904 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you and all your hordes and the peoples who are with you. I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.  
Ez3905 You shall fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez3906 I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they shall know that I am the LORD.  
Ez3907 “And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.  
Ez3908 Behold, it is coming and it will be brought about, declares the Lord GOD. That is the day of which I have spoken.  
Ez3909 “Then those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out and make fires of the weapons and burn them, shields and bucklers, bow and arrows, clubs and spears; and they will make fires of them for seven years,  
Ez3910 so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for they will make their fires of the weapons. They will seize the spoil of those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez3911 “On that day I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the sea. It will block the travelers, for there Gog and all his multitude will be buried. It will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.  
Ez3912 For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, in order to cleanse the land.  
Ez3913 All the people of the land will bury them, and it will bring them renown on the day that I show my glory, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez3914 They will set apart men to travel through the land regularly and bury those travelers remaining on the face of the land, so as to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make their search.  
Ez3915 And when these travel through the land and anyone sees a human bone, then he shall set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.  
Ez3916 (Hamonah is also the name of the city.) Thus shall they cleanse the land.  
Ez3917 “As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: Speak to the birds of every sort and to all beasts of the field: ‘Assemble and come, gather from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood.  
Ez3918 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, of bulls, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.  
Ez3919 And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you.  
Ez3920 And you shall be filled at my table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all kinds of warriors,’ declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez3921 “And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.  
Ez3922 The house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God, from that day forward.  
Ez3923 And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with me that I hid my face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword.  
Ez3924 I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them.  
Ez3925 “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name.  
Ez3926 They shall forget their shame and all the treachery they have practiced against me, when they dwell securely in their land with none to make them afraid,  
Ez3927 when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies’ lands, and through them have vindicated my holiness in the sight of many nations.  
Ez3928 Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.  
Ez3929 And I will not hide my face anymore from them, when I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez4001 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was struck down, on that very day, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me to the city.  
Ez4002 In visions of God he brought me to the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, on which was a structure like a city to the south.  
Ez4003 When he brought me there, behold, there was a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring reed in his hand. And he was standing in the gateway.  
Ez4004 And the man said to me, “Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.”  
Ez4005 And behold, there was a wall all around the outside of the temple area, and the length of the measuring reed in the man’s hand was six long cubits, each being a cubit and a handbreadth in length. So he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed; and the height, one reed.  
Ez4006 Then he went into the gateway facing east, going up its steps, and measured the threshold of the gate, one reed deep.  
Ez4007 And the side rooms, one reed long and one reed broad; and the space between the side rooms, five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the vestibule of the gate at the inner end, one reed.  
Ez4008 Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, on the inside, one reed.  
Ez4009 Then he measured the vestibule of the gateway, eight cubits; and its jambs, two cubits; and the vestibule of the gate was at the inner end.  
Ez4010 And there were three side rooms on either side of the east gate. The three were of the same size, and the jambs on either side were of the same size.  
Ez4011 Then he measured the width of the opening of the gateway, ten cubits; and the length of the gateway, thirteen cubits.  
Ez4012 There was a barrier before the side rooms, one cubit on either side. And the side rooms were six cubits on either side.  
Ez4013 Then he measured the gate from the ceiling of the one side room to the ceiling of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; the openings faced each other.  
Ez4014 He measured also the vestibule, sixty cubits. And around the vestibule of the gateway was the court.  
Ez4015 From the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the inner vestibule of the gate was fifty cubits.  
Ez4016 And the gateway had windows all around, narrowing inwards toward the side rooms and toward their jambs, and likewise the vestibule had windows all around inside, and on the jambs were palm trees.  
Ez4017 Then he brought me into the outer court. And behold, there were chambers and a pavement, all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement.  
Ez4018 And the pavement ran along the side of the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates. This was the lower pavement.  
Ez4019 Then he measured the distance from the inner front of the lower gate to the outer front of the inner court, a hundred cubits on the east side and on the north side.  
Ez4020 As for the gate that faced toward the north, belonging to the outer court, he measured its length and its breadth.  
Ez4021 Its side rooms, three on either side, and its jambs and its vestibule were of the same size as those of the first gate. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.  
Ez4022 And its windows, its vestibule, and its palm trees were of the same size as those of the gate that faced toward the east. And by seven steps people would go up to it, and find its vestibule before them.  
Ez4023 And opposite the gate on the north, as on the east, was a gate to the inner court. And he measured from gate to gate, a hundred cubits.  
Ez4024 And he led me toward the south, and behold, there was a gate on the south. And he measured its jambs and its vestibule; they had the same size as the others.  
Ez4025 Both it and its vestibule had windows all around, like the windows of the others. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.  
Ez4026 And there were seven steps leading up to it, and its vestibule was before them, and it had palm trees on its jambs, one on either side.  
Ez4027 And there was a gate on the south of the inner court. And he measured from gate to gate toward the south, a hundred cubits.  
Ez4028 Then he brought me to the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate. It was of the same size as the others.  
Ez4029 Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others, and both it and its vestibule had windows all around. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.  
Ez4030 And there were vestibules all around, twenty-five cubits long and five cubits broad.  
Ez4031 Its vestibule faced the outer court, and palm trees were on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps.  
Ez4032 Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gate. It was of the same size as the others.  
Ez4033 Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others, and both it and its vestibule had windows all around. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.  
Ez4034 Its vestibule faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its jambs, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.  
Ez4035 Then he brought me to the north gate, and he measured it. It had the same size as the others.  
Ez4036 Its side rooms, its jambs, and its vestibule were of the same size as the others, and it had windows all around. Its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth twenty-five cubits.  
Ez4037 Its vestibule faced the outer court, and it had palm trees on its jambs, on either side, and its stairway had eight steps.  
Ez4038 There was a chamber with its door in the vestibule of the gate, where the burnt offering was to be washed.  
Ez4039 And in the vestibule of the gate were two tables on either side, on which the burnt offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering were to be slaughtered.  
Ez4040 And off to the side, on the outside as one goes up to the entrance of the north gate, were two tables; and off to the other side of the vestibule of the gate were two tables.  
Ez4041 Four tables were on either side of the gate, eight tables, on which to slaughter.  
Ez4042 And there were four tables of hewn stone for the burnt offering, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high, on which the instruments were to be laid with which the burnt offerings and the sacrifices were slaughtered.  
Ez4043 And hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened all around within. And on the tables the flesh of the offering was to be laid.  
Ez4044 On the outside of the inner gateway there were two chambers in the inner court, one at the side of the north gate facing south, the other at the side of the south gate facing north.  
Ez4045 And he said to me, “This chamber that faces south is for the priests who have charge of the temple,  
Ez4046 and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who alone among the sons of Levi may come near to the LORD to minister to him.”  
Ez4047 And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits broad, a square. And the altar was in front of the temple.  
Ez4048 Then he brought me to the vestibule of the temple and measured the jambs of the vestibule, five cubits on either side. And the breadth of the gate was fourteen cubits, and the sidewalls of the gate were three cubits on either side.  
Ez4049 The length of the vestibule was twenty cubits, and the breadth twelve cubits, and people would go up to it by ten steps. And there were pillars beside the jambs, one on either side.  
Ez4101 Then he brought me to the nave and measured the jambs. On each side six cubits was the breadth of the jambs.  
Ez4102 And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sidewalls of the entrance were five cubits on either side. And he measured the length of the nave, forty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits.  
Ez4103 Then he went into the inner room and measured the jambs of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the sidewalls on either side of the entrance, seven cubits.  
Ez4104 And he measured the length of the room, twenty cubits, and its breadth, twenty cubits, across the nave. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”  
Ez4105 Then he measured the wall of the temple, six cubits thick, and the breadth of the side chambers, four cubits, all around the temple.  
Ez4106 And the side chambers were in three stories, one over another, thirty in each story. There were offsets all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that they should not be supported by the wall of the temple.  
Ez4107 And it became broader as it wound upward to the side chambers, because the temple was enclosed upward all around the temple. Thus the temple had a broad area upward, and so one went up from the lowest story to the top story through the middle story.  
Ez4108 I saw also that the temple had a raised platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers measured a full reed of six long cubits.  
Ez4109 The thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits. The free space between the side chambers of the temple and the  
Ez4110 other chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits all around the temple on every side.  
Ez4111 And the doors of the side chambers opened on the free space, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south. And the breadth of the free space was five cubits all around.  
Ez4112 The building that was facing the separate yard on the west side was seventy cubits broad, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length ninety cubits.  
Ez4113 Then he measured the temple, a hundred cubits long; and the yard and the building with its walls, a hundred cubits long;  
Ez4114 also the breadth of the east front of the temple and the yard, a hundred cubits.  
Ez4115 Then he measured the length of the building facing the yard that was at the back and its galleries on either side, a hundred cubits. The inside of the nave and the vestibules of the court,  
Ez4116 the thresholds and the narrow windows and the galleries all around the three of them, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, from the floor up to the windows (now the windows were covered),  
Ez4117 to the space above the door, even to the inner room, and on the outside. And on all the walls all around, inside and outside, was a measured pattern.  
Ez4118 It was carved of cherubim and palm trees, a palm tree between cherub and cherub. Every cherub had two faces:  
Ez4119 a human face toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side. They were carved on the whole temple all around.  
Ez4120 From the floor to above the door, cherubim and palm trees were carved; similarly the wall of the nave.  
Ez4121 The doorposts of the nave were squared, and in front of the Holy Place was something resembling  
Ez4122 an altar of wood, three cubits high, two cubits long, and two cubits broad. Its corners, its base, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”  
Ez4123 The nave and the Holy Place had each a double door.  
Ez4124 The double doors had two leaves apiece, two swinging leaves for each door.  
Ez4125 And on the doors of the nave were carved cherubim and palm trees, such as were carved on the walls. And there was a canopy of wood in front of the vestibule outside.  
Ez4126 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on either side, on the sidewalls of the vestibule, the side chambers of the temple, and the canopies.  
Ez4201 Then he led me out into the outer court, toward the north, and he brought me to the chambers that were opposite the separate yard and opposite the building on the north.  
Ez4202 The length of the building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits.  
Ez4203 Facing the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing the pavement that belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.  
Ez4204 And before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long, and their doors were on the north.  
Ez4205 Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.  
Ez4206 For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones.  
Ez4207 And there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, fifty cubits long.  
Ez4208 For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite the nave were a hundred cubits long.  
Ez4209 Below these chambers was an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court.  
Ez4210 In the thickness of the wall of the court, on the south also, opposite the yard and opposite the building, there were chambers  
Ez4211 with a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits and arrangements and doors,  
Ez4212 as were the entrances of the chambers on the south. There was an entrance at the beginning of the passage, the passage before the corresponding wall on the east as one enters them.  
Ez4213 Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers opposite the yard are the holy chambers, where the priests who approach the LORD shall eat the most holy offerings. There they shall put the most holy offerings—the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering—for the place is holy.  
Ez4214 When the priests enter the Holy Place, they shall not go out of it into the outer court without laying there the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They shall put on other garments before they go near to that which is for the people.”  
Ez4215 Now when he had finished measuring the interior of the temple area, he led me out by the gate that faced east, and measured the temple area all around.  
Ez4216 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around.  
Ez4217 He measured the north side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed all around.  
Ez4218 He measured the south side, 500 cubits by the measuring reed.  
Ez4219 Then he turned to the west side and measured, 500 cubits by the measuring reed.  
Ez4220 He measured it on the four sides. It had a wall around it, 500 cubits long and 500 cubits broad, to make a separation between the holy and the common.  
Ez4301 Then he led me to the gate, the gate facing east.  
Ez4302 And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the east. And the sound of his coming was like the sound of many waters, and the earth shone with his glory.  
Ez4303 And the vision I saw was just like the vision that I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and just like the vision that I had seen by the Chebar canal. And I fell on my face.  
Ez4304 As the glory of the LORD entered the temple by the gate facing east,  
Ez4305 the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court; and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the temple.  
Ez4306 While the man was standing beside me, I heard one speaking to me out of the temple,  
Ez4307 and he said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the people of Israel forever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoring and by the dead bodies of their kings at their high places,  
Ez4308 by setting their threshold by my threshold and their doorposts beside my doorposts, with only a wall between me and them. They have defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed, so I have consumed them in my anger.  
Ez4309 Now let them put away their whoring and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.  
Ez4310 “As for you, son of man, describe to the house of Israel the temple, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and they shall measure the plan.  
Ez4311 And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple, its arrangement, its exits and its entrances, that is, its whole design; and make known to them as well all its statutes and its whole design and all its laws, and write it down in their sight, so that they may observe all its laws and all its statutes and carry them out.  
Ez4312 This is the law of the temple: the whole territory on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.  
Ez4313 “These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth): its base shall be one cubit high and one cubit broad, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this shall be the height of the altar:  
Ez4314 from the base on the ground to the lower ledge, two cubits, with a breadth of one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge, four cubits, with a breadth of one cubit;  
Ez4315 and the altar hearth, four cubits; and from the altar hearth projecting upward, four horns.  
Ez4316 The altar hearth shall be square, twelve cubits long by twelve broad.  
Ez4317 The ledge also shall be square, fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad, with a rim around it half a cubit broad, and its base one cubit all around. The steps of the altar shall face east.”  
Ez4318 And he said to me, “Son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: These are the ordinances for the altar: On the day when it is erected for offering burnt offerings upon it and for throwing blood against it,  
Ez4319 you shall give to the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok, who draw near to me to minister to me, declares the Lord GOD, a bull from the herd for a sin offering.  
Ez4320 And you shall take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar and on the four corners of the ledge and upon the rim all around. Thus you shall purify the altar and make atonement for it.  
Ez4321 You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burned in the appointed place belonging to the temple, outside the sacred area.  
Ez4322 And on the second day you shall offer a male goat without blemish for a sin offering; and the altar shall be purified, as it was purified with the bull.  
Ez4323 When you have finished purifying it, you shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish and a ram from the flock without blemish.  
Ez4324 You shall present them before the LORD, and the priests shall sprinkle salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the LORD.  
Ez4325 For seven days you shall provide daily a male goat for a sin offering; also, a bull from the herd and a ram from the flock, without blemish, shall be provided.  
Ez4326 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, and so consecrate it.  
Ez4327 And when they have completed these days, then from the eighth day onward the priests shall offer on the altar your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, and I will accept you, declares the Lord GOD.”  
Ez4401 Then he brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces east. And it was shut.  
Ez4402 And the LORD said to me, “This gate shall remain shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered by it. Therefore it shall remain shut.  
Ez4403 Only the prince may sit in it to eat bread before the LORD. He shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gate, and shall go out by the same way.”  
Ez4404 Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple, and I looked, and behold, the glory of the LORD filled the temple of the LORD. And I fell on my face.  
Ez4405 And the LORD said to me, “Son of man, mark well, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I shall tell you concerning all the statutes of the temple of the LORD and all its laws. And mark well the entrance to the temple and all the exits from the sanctuary.  
Ez4406 And say to the rebellious house, to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: O house of Israel, enough of all your abominations,  
Ez4407 in admitting foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to be in my sanctuary, profaning my temple, when you offer to me my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant, in addition to all your abominations.  
Ez4408 And you have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have set others to keep my charge for you in my sanctuary.  
Ez4409 “Thus says the Lord GOD: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.  
Ez4410 But the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols when Israel went astray, shall bear their punishment.  
Ez4411 They shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple and ministering in the temple. They shall slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before the people, to minister to them.  
Ez4412 Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn concerning them, declares the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their punishment.  
Ez4413 They shall not come near to me, to serve me as priest, nor come near any of my holy things and the things that are most holy, but they shall bear their shame and the abominations that they have committed.  
Ez4414 Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, to do all its service and all that is to be done in it.  
Ez4415 “But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. And they shall stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez4416 They shall enter my sanctuary, and they shall approach my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.  
Ez4417 When they enter the gates of the inner court, they shall wear linen garments. They shall have nothing of wool on them, while they minister at the gates of the inner court, and within.  
Ez4418 They shall have linen turbans on their heads, and linen undergarments around their waists. They shall not bind themselves with anything that causes sweat.  
Ez4419 And when they go out into the outer court to the people, they shall put off the garments in which they have been ministering and lay them in the holy chambers. And they shall put on other garments, lest they transmit holiness to the people with their garments.  
Ez4420 They shall not shave their heads or let their locks grow long; they shall surely trim the hair of their heads.  
Ez4421 No priest shall drink wine when he enters the inner court.  
Ez4422 They shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but only virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.  
Ez4423 They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.  
Ez4424 In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.  
Ez4425 They shall not defile themselves by going near to a dead person. However, for father or mother, for son or daughter, for brother or unmarried sister they may defile themselves.  
Ez4426 After he has become clean, they shall count seven days for him.  
Ez4427 And on the day that he goes into the Holy Place, into the inner court, to minister in the Holy Place, he shall offer his sin offering, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez4428 “This shall be their inheritance: I am their inheritance: and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.  
Ez4429 They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.  
Ez4430 And the first of all the firstfruits of all kinds, and every offering of all kinds from all your offerings, shall belong to the priests. You shall also give to the priests the first of your dough, that a blessing may rest on your house.  
Ez4431 The priests shall not eat of anything, whether bird or beast, that has died of itself or is torn by wild animals.  
Ez4501 “When you allot the land as an inheritance, you shall set apart for the LORD a portion of the land as a holy district, 25,000 cubits long and 20,000 cubits broad. It shall be holy throughout its whole extent.  
Ez4502 Of this a square plot of 500 by 500 cubits shall be for the sanctuary, with fifty cubits for an open space around it.  
Ez4503 And from this measured district you shall measure off a section 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 broad, in which shall be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.  
Ez4504 It shall be the holy portion of the land. It shall be for the priests, who minister in the sanctuary and approach the LORD to minister to him, and it shall be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.  
Ez4505 Another section, 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits broad, shall be for the Levites who minister at the temple, as their possession for cities to live in.  
Ez4506 “Alongside the portion set apart as the holy district you shall assign for the property of the city an area 5,000 cubits broad and 25,000 cubits long. It shall belong to the whole house of Israel.  
Ez4507 “And to the prince shall belong the land on both sides of the holy district and the property of the city, alongside the holy district and the property of the city, on the west and on the east, corresponding in length to one of the tribal portions, and extending from the western to the eastern boundary  
Ez4508 of the land. It is to be his property in Israel. And my princes shall no more oppress my people, but they shall let the house of Israel have the land according to their tribes.  
Ez4509 “Thus says the Lord GOD: Enough, O princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression, and execute justice and righteousness. Cease your evictions of my people, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez4510 “You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.  
Ez4511 The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure.  
Ez4512 The shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels plus twenty-five shekels plus fifteen shekels shall be your mina.  
Ez4513 “This is the offering that you shall make: one sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and one sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley,  
Ez4514 and as the fixed portion of oil, measured in baths, one tenth of a bath from each cor (the cor, like the homer, contains ten baths).  
Ez4515 And one sheep from every flock of two hundred, from the watering places of Israel for grain offering, burnt offering, and peace offerings, to make atonement for them, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez4516 All the people of the land shall be obliged to give this offering to the prince in Israel.  
Ez4517 It shall be the prince’s duty to furnish the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the new moons, and the Sabbaths, all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.  
Ez4518 “Thus says the Lord GOD: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull from the herd without blemish, and purify the sanctuary.  
Ez4519 The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorposts of the temple, the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and the posts of the gate of the inner court.  
Ez4520 You shall do the same on the seventh day of the month for anyone who has sinned through error or ignorance; so you shall make atonement for the temple.  
Ez4521 “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the Feast of the Passover, and for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten.  
Ez4522 On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a young bull for a sin offering.  
Ez4523 And on the seven days of the festival he shall provide as a burnt offering to the LORD seven young bulls and seven rams without blemish, on each of the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.  
Ez4524 And he shall provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a hin of oil to each ephah.  
Ez4525 In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month and for the seven days of the feast, he shall make the same provision for sin offerings, burnt offerings, and grain offerings, and for the oil.  
Ez4601 “Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.  
Ez4602 The prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening.  
Ez4603 The people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the LORD on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.  
Ez4604 The burnt offering that the prince offers to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish.  
Ez4605 And the grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.  
Ez4606 On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish.  
Ez4607 As a grain offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs as much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah.  
Ez4608 When the prince enters, he shall enter by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.  
Ez4609 “When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead.  
Ez4610 When they enter, the prince shall enter with them, and when they go out, he shall go out.  
Ez4611 “At the feasts and the appointed festivals, the grain offering with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah.  
Ez4612 When the prince provides a freewill offering, either a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the LORD, the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall offer his burnt offering or his peace offerings as he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be shut.  
Ez4613 “You shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the LORD daily; morning by morning you shall provide it.  
Ez4614 And you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a grain offering to the LORD. This is a perpetual statute.  
Ez4615 Thus the lamb and the meal offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, for a regular burnt offering.  
Ez4616 “Thus says the Lord GOD: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons as his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons. It is their property by inheritance.  
Ez4617 But if he makes a gift out of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty. Then it shall revert to the prince; surely it is his inheritance—it shall belong to his sons.  
Ez4618 The prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, thrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be scattered from his property.”  
Ez4619 Then he brought me through the entrance, which was at the side of the gate, to the north row of the holy chambers for the priests, and behold, a place was there at the extreme western end of them.  
Ez4620 And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so transmit holiness to the people.”  
Ez4621 Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around to the four corners of the court. And behold, in each corner of the court there was another court—  
Ez4622 in the four corners of the court were small courts, forty cubits long and thirty broad; the four were of the same size.  
Ez4623 On the inside, around each of the four courts was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows all around.  
Ez4624 Then he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people.”  
Ez4701 Then he brought me back to the door of the temple, and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar.  
Ez4702 Then he brought me out by way of the north gate and led me around on the outside to the outer gate that faces toward the east; and behold, the water was trickling out on the south side.  
Ez4703 Going on eastward with a measuring line in his hand, the man measured a thousand cubits, and then led me through the water, and it was ankle-deep.  
Ez4704 Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was knee-deep. Again he measured a thousand, and led me through the water, and it was waist-deep.  
Ez4705 Again he measured a thousand, and it was a river that I could not pass through, for the water had risen. It was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.  
Ez4706 And he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?” Then he led me back to the bank of the river.  
Ez4707 As I went back, I saw on the bank of the river very many trees on the one side and on the other.  
Ez4708 And he said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah, and enters the sea; when the water flows into the sea, the water will become fresh.  
Ez4709 And wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish. For this water goes there, that the waters of the sea may become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes.  
Ez4710 Fishermen will stand beside the sea. From Engedi to Eneglaim it will be a place for the spreading of nets. Its fish will be of very many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.  
Ez4711 But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt.  
Ez4712 And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”  
Ez4713 Thus says the Lord GOD: “This is the boundary by which you shall divide the land for inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel. Joseph shall have two portions.  
Ez4714 And you shall divide equally what I swore to give to your fathers. This land shall fall to you as your inheritance.  
Ez4715 “This shall be the boundary of the land: On the north side, from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, and on to Zedad,  
Ez4716 Berothah, Sibraim (which lies on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran.  
Ez4717 So the boundary shall run from the sea to Hazar-enan, which is on the northern border of Damascus, with the border of Hamath to the north. This shall be the north side.  
Ez4718 “On the east side, the boundary shall run between Hauran and Damascus; along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel; to the eastern sea and as far as Tamar. This shall be the east side.  
Ez4719 “On the south side, it shall run from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribah-kadesh, from there along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea. This shall be the south side.  
Ez4720 “On the west side, the Great Sea shall be the boundary to a point opposite Lebo- hamath. This shall be the west side.  
Ez4721 “So you shall divide this land among you according to the tribes of Israel.  
Ez4722 You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the sojourners who reside among you and have had children among you. They shall be to you as native-born children of Israel. With you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.  
Ez4723 In whatever tribe the sojourner resides, there you shall assign him his inheritance, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez4801 “These are the names of the tribes: Beginning at the northern extreme, beside the way of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath, as far as Hazar-enan (which is on the northern border of Damascus over against Hamath), and extending from the east side to the west, Dan, one portion.  
Ez4802 Adjoining the territory of Dan, from the east side to the west, Asher, one portion.  
Ez4803 Adjoining the territory of Asher, from the east side to the west, Naphtali, one portion.  
Ez4804 Adjoining the territory of Naphtali, from the east side to the west, Manasseh, one portion.  
Ez4805 Adjoining the territory of Manasseh, from the east side to the west, Ephraim, one portion.  
Ez4806 Adjoining the territory of Ephraim, from the east side to the west, Reuben, one portion.  
Ez4807 Adjoining the territory of Reuben, from the east side to the west, Judah, one portion.  
Ez4808 “Adjoining the territory of Judah, from the east side to the west, shall be the portion which you shall set apart, 25,000 cubits in breadth, and in length equal to one of the tribal portions, from the east side to the west, with the sanctuary in the midst of it.  
Ez4809 The portion that you shall set apart for the LORD shall be 25,000 cubits in length, and 20,000 in breadth.  
Ez4810 These shall be the allotments of the holy portion: the priests shall have an allotment measuring 25,000 cubits on the northern side, 10,000 cubits in breadth on the western side, 10,000 in breadth on the eastern side, and 25,000 in length on the southern side, with the sanctuary of the LORD in the midst of it.  
Ez4811 This shall be for the consecrated priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept my charge, who did not go astray when the people of Israel went astray, as the Levites did.  
Ez4812 And it shall belong to them as a special portion from the holy portion of the land, a most holy place, adjoining the territory of the Levites.  
Ez4813 And alongside the territory of the priests, the Levites shall have an allotment 25,000 cubits in length and 10,000 in breadth. The whole length shall be 25,000 cubits and the breadth 20,000.  
Ez4814 They shall not sell or exchange any of it. They shall not alienate this choice portion of the land, for it is holy to the LORD.  
Ez4815 “The remainder, 5,000 cubits in breadth and 25,000 in length, shall be for common use for the city, for dwellings and for open country. In the midst of it shall be the city,  
Ez4816 and these shall be its measurements: the north side 4,500 cubits, the south side 4,500, the east side 4,500, and the west side 4,500.  
Ez4817 And the city shall have open land: on the north 250 cubits, on the south 250, on the east 250, and on the west 250.  
Ez4818 The remainder of the length alongside the holy portion shall be 10,000 cubits to the east, and 10,000 to the west, and it shall be alongside the holy portion. Its produce shall be food for the workers of the city.  
Ez4819 And the workers of the city, from all the tribes of Israel, shall till it.  
Ez4820 The whole portion that you shall set apart shall be 25,000 cubits square, that is, the holy portion together with the property of the city.  
Ez4821 “What remains on both sides of the holy portion and of the property of the city shall belong to the prince. Extending from the 25,000 cubits of the holy portion to the east border, and westward from the 25,000 cubits to the west border, parallel to the tribal portions, it shall belong to the prince. The holy portion with the sanctuary of the temple shall be in its midst.  
Ez4822 It shall be separate from the property of the Levites and the property of the city, which are in the midst of that which belongs to the prince. The portion of the prince shall lie between the territory of Judah and the territory of Benjamin.  
Ez4823 “As for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west, Benjamin, one portion.  
Ez4824 Adjoining the territory of Benjamin, from the east side to the west, Simeon, one portion.  
Ez4825 Adjoining the territory of Simeon, from the east side to the west, Issachar, one portion.  
Ez4826 Adjoining the territory of Issachar, from the east side to the west, Zebulun, one portion.  
Ez4827 Adjoining the territory of Zebulun, from the east side to the west, Gad, one portion.  
Ez4828 And adjoining the territory of Gad to the south, the boundary shall run from Tamar to the waters of Meribah-kadesh, from there along the Brook of Egypt to the Great Sea.  
Ez4829 This is the land that you shall allot as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the Lord GOD.  
Ez4830 “These shall be the exits of the city: On the north side, which is to be 4,500 cubits by measure,  
Ez4831 three gates, the gate of Reuben, the gate of Judah, and the gate of Levi, the gates of the city being named after the tribes of Israel.  
Ez4832 On the east side, which is to be 4,500 cubits, three gates, the gate of Joseph, the gate of Benjamin, and the gate of Dan.  
Ez4833 On the south side, which is to be 4,500 cubits by measure, three gates, the gate of Simeon, the gate of Issachar, and the gate of Zebulun.  
Ez4834 On the west side, which is to be 4,500 cubits, three gates, the gate of Gad, the gate of Asher, and the gate of Naphtali.  
Ez4835 The circumference of the city shall be 18,000 cubits. And the name of the city from that time on shall be, The LORD Is There.”  
Dn0101 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.  
Dn0102 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god.  
Dn0103 Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility,  
Dn0104 youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king’s palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.  
Dn0105 The king assigned them a daily portion of the food that the king ate, and of the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king.  
Dn0106 Among these were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah of the tribe of Judah.  
Dn0107 And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: Daniel he called Belteshazzar, Hananiah he called Shadrach, Mishael he called Meshach, and Azariah he called Abednego.  
Dn0108 But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.  
Dn0109 And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs,  
Dn0110 and the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see that you were in worse condition than the youths who are of your own age? So you would endanger my head with the king.”  
Dn0111 Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had assigned over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,  
Dn0112 “Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.  
Dn0113 Then let our appearance and the appearance of the youths who eat the king’s food be observed by you, and deal with your servants according to what you see.”  
Dn0114 So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.  
Dn0115 At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king’s food.  
Dn0116 So the steward took away their food and the wine they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.  
Dn0117 As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.  
Dn0118 At the end of the time, when the king had commanded that they should be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.  
Dn0119 And the king spoke with them, and among all of them none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore they stood before the king.  
Dn0120 And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.  
Dn0121 And Daniel was there until the first year of King Cyrus.  
Dn0201 In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him.  
Dn0202 Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be summoned to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.  
Dn0203 And the king said to them, “I had a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.”  
Dn0204 Then the Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.”  
Dn0205 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, “The word from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be laid in ruins.  
Dn0206 But if you show the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. Therefore show me the dream and its interpretation.”  
Dn0207 They answered a second time and said, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will show its interpretation.”  
Dn0208 The king answered and said, “I know with certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see that the word from me is firm—  
Dn0209 if you do not make the dream known to me, there is but one sentence for you. You have agreed to speak lying and corrupt words before me till the times change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that you can show me its interpretation.”  
Dn0210 The Chaldeans answered the king and said, “There is not a man on earth who can meet the king’s demand, for no great and powerful king has asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean.  
Dn0211 The thing that the king asks is difficult, and no one can show it to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”  
Dn0212 Because of this the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.  
Dn0213 So the decree went out, and the wise men were about to be killed; and they sought Daniel and his companions, to kill them.  
Dn0214 Then Daniel replied with prudence and discretion to Arioch, the captain of the king’s guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon.  
Dn0215 He declared to Arioch, the king’s captain, “Why is the decree of the king so urgent?” Then Arioch made the matter known to Daniel.  
Dn0216 And Daniel went in and requested the king to appoint him a time, that he might show the interpretation to the king.  
Dn0217 Then Daniel went to his house and made the matter known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions,  
Dn0218 and told them to seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions might not be destroyed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.  
Dn0219 Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.  
Dn0220 Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might.  
Dn0221 He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;  
Dn0222 he reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.  
Dn0223 To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king’s matter.”  
Dn0224 Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He went and said thus to him: “Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show the king the interpretation.”  
Dn0225 Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste and said thus to him: “I have found among the exiles from Judah a man who will make known to the king the interpretation.”  
Dn0226 The king declared to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream that I have seen and its interpretation?”  
Dn0227 Daniel answered the king and said, “No wise men, enchanters, magicians, or astrologers can show to the king the mystery that the king has asked,  
Dn0228 but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these:  
Dn0229 To you, O king, as you lay in bed came thoughts of what would be after this, and he who reveals mysteries made known to you what is to be.  
Dn0230 But as for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because of any wisdom that I have more than all the living, but in order that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your mind.  
Dn0231 “You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was frightening.  
Dn0232 The head of this image was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze,  
Dn0233 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.  
Dn0234 As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.  
Dn0235 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.  
Dn0236 “This was the dream. Now we will tell the king its interpretation.  
Dn0237 You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, and the might, and the glory,  
Dn0238 and into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the children of man, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens, making you rule over them all—you are the head of gold.  
Dn0239 Another kingdom inferior to you shall arise after you, and yet a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule over all the earth.  
Dn0240 And there shall be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron, because iron breaks to pieces and shatters all things. And like iron that crushes, it shall break and crush all these.  
Dn0241 And as you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom, but some of the firmness of iron shall be in it, just as you saw iron mixed with the soft clay.  
Dn0242 And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle.  
Dn0243 As you saw the iron mixed with soft clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay.  
Dn0244 And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,  
Dn0245 just as you saw that a stone was cut from a mountain by no human hand, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. A great God has made known to the king what shall be after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”  
Dn0246 Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and paid homage to Daniel, and commanded that an offering and incense be offered up to him.  
Dn0247 The king answered and said to Daniel, “Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.”  
Dn0248 Then the king gave Daniel high honors and many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon.  
Dn0249 Daniel made a request of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon. But Daniel remained at the king’s court.  
Dn0301 King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its breadth six cubits. He set it up on the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.  
Dn0302 Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent to gather the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.  
Dn0303 Then the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces gathered for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. And they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.  
Dn0304 And the herald proclaimed aloud, “You are commanded, O peoples, nations, and languages,  
Dn0305 that when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.  
Dn0306 And whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace.”  
Dn0307 Therefore, as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, all the peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.  
Dn0308 Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came forward and maliciously accused the Jews.  
Dn0309 They declared to King Nebuchadnezzar, “O king, live forever!  
Dn0310 You, O king, have made a decree, that every man who hears the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, shall fall down and worship the golden image.  
Dn0311 And whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into a burning fiery furnace.  
Dn0312 There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, pay no attention to you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”  
Dn0313 Then Nebuchadnezzar in furious rage commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. So they brought these men before the king.  
Dn0314 Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, “Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up?  
Dn0315 Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well and good. But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be cast into a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”  
Dn0316 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.  
Dn0317 If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.  
Dn0318 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”  
Dn0319 Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with fury, and the expression of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He ordered the furnace heated seven times more than it was usually heated.  
Dn0320 And he ordered some of the mighty men of his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.  
Dn0321 Then these men were bound in their cloaks, their tunics, their hats, and their other garments, and they were thrown into the burning fiery furnace.  
Dn0322 Because the king’s order was urgent and the furnace overheated, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.  
Dn0323 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell bound into the burning fiery furnace.  
Dn0324 Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished and rose up in haste. He declared to his counselors, “Did we not cast three men bound into the fire?” They answered and said to the king, “True, O king.”  
Dn0325 He answered and said, “But I see four men unbound, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”  
Dn0326 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the door of the burning fiery furnace; he declared, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out, and come here!” Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the fire.  
Dn0327 And the satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king’s counselors gathered together and saw that the fire had not had any power over the bodies of those men. The hair of their heads was not singed, their cloaks were not harmed, and no smell of fire had come upon them.  
Dn0328 Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants, who trusted in him, and set aside the king’s command, and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their own God.  
Dn0329 Therefore I make a decree: Any people, nation, or language that speaks anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be torn limb from limb, and their houses laid in ruins, for there is no other god who is able to rescue in this way.”  
Dn0330 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.  
Dn0401 King Nebuchadnezzar to all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you!  
Dn0402 It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me.  
Dn0403 How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion endures from generation to generation.  
Dn0404 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and prospering in my palace.  
Dn0405 I saw a dream that made me afraid. As I lay in bed the fancies and the visions of my head alarmed me.  
Dn0406 So I made a decree that all the wise men of Babylon should be brought before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.  
Dn0407 Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers came in, and I told them the dream, but they could not make known to me its interpretation.  
Dn0408 At last Daniel came in before me—he who was named Belteshazzar after the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods—and I told him the dream, saying,  
Dn0409 “O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and that no mystery is too difficult for you, tell me the visions of my dream that I saw and their interpretation.  
Dn0410 The visions of my head as I lay in bed were these: I saw, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.  
Dn0411 The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth.  
Dn0412 Its leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, and the birds of the heavens lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.  
Dn0413 “I saw in the visions of my head as I lay in bed, and behold, a watcher, a holy one, came down from heaven.  
Dn0414 He proclaimed aloud and said thus: ‘Chop down the tree and lop off its branches, strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the beasts flee from under it and the birds from its branches.  
Dn0415 But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, amid the tender grass of the field. Let him be wet with the dew of heaven. Let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth.  
Dn0416 Let his mind be changed from a man’s, and let a beast’s mind be given to him; and let seven periods of time pass over him.  
Dn0417 The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, the decision by the word of the holy ones, to the end that the living may know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men.’  
Dn0418 This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw. And you, O Belteshazzar, tell me the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation, but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.”  
Dn0419 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was dismayed for a while, and his thoughts alarmed him. The king answered and said, “Belteshazzar, let not the dream or the interpretation alarm you.” Belteshazzar answered and said, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you and its interpretation for your enemies!  
Dn0420 The tree you saw, which grew and became strong, so that its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth,  
Dn0421 whose leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all, under which beasts of the field found shade, and in whose branches the birds of the heavens lived—  
Dn0422 it is you, O king, who have grown and become strong. Your greatness has grown and reaches to heaven, and your dominion to the ends of the earth.  
Dn0423 And because the king saw a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, bound with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven periods of time pass over him,’  
Dn0424 this is the interpretation, O king: It is a decree of the Most High, which has come upon my lord the king,  
Dn0425 that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.  
Dn0426 And as it was commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree, your kingdom shall be confirmed for you from the time that you know that Heaven rules.  
Dn0427 Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you: break off your sins by practicing righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed, that there may perhaps be a lengthening of your prosperity.”  
Dn0428 All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar.  
Dn0429 At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon,  
Dn0430 and the king answered and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”  
Dn0431 While the words were still in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, “O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you,  
Dn0432 and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.”  
Dn0433 Immediately the word was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from among men and ate grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair grew as long as eagles’ feathers, and his nails were like birds’ claws.  
Dn0434 At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;  
Dn0435 all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”  
Dn0436 At the same time my reason returned to me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and splendor returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and still more greatness was added to me.  
Dn0437 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.  
Dn0501 King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.  
Dn0502 Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.  
Dn0503 Then they brought in the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.  
Dn0504 They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.  
Dn0505 Immediately the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw the hand as it wrote.  
Dn0506 Then the king’s color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.  
Dn0507 The king called loudly to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king declared to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”  
Dn0508 Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or make known to the king the interpretation.  
Dn0509 Then King Belshazzar was greatly alarmed, and his color changed, and his lords were perplexed.  
Dn0510 The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banqueting hall, and the queen declared, “O king, live forever! Let not your thoughts alarm you or your color change.  
Dn0511 There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him, and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father—your father the king—made him chief of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and astrologers,  
Dn0512 because an excellent spirit, knowledge, and understanding to interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.”  
Dn0513 Then Daniel was brought in before the king. The king answered and said to Daniel, “You are that Daniel, one of the exiles of Judah, whom the king my father brought from Judah.  
Dn0514 I have heard of you that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.  
Dn0515 Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me to read this writing and make known to me its interpretation, but they could not show the interpretation of the matter.  
Dn0516 But I have heard that you can give interpretations and solve problems. Now if you can read the writing and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around your neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”  
Dn0517 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, “Let your gifts be for yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king and make known to him the interpretation.  
Dn0518 O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father kingship and greatness and glory and majesty.  
Dn0519 And because of the greatness that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whom he would, he killed, and whom he would, he kept alive; whom he would, he raised up, and whom he would, he humbled.  
Dn0520 But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him.  
Dn0521 He was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, until he knew that the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will.  
Dn0522 And you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,  
Dn0523 but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.  
Dn0524 “Then from his presence the hand was sent, and this writing was inscribed.  
Dn0525 And this is the writing that was inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin.  
Dn0526 This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end;  
Dn0527 Tekel, you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;  
Dn0528 Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”  
Dn0529 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.  
Dn0530 That very night Belshazzar the Chaldean king was killed.  
Dn0531 And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.  
Dn0601 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120satraps, to be throughout the whole kingdom;  
Dn0602 and over them three high officials, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these satraps should give account, so that the king might suffer no loss.  
Dn0603 Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other high officials and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.  
Dn0604 Then the high officials and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom, but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him.  
Dn0605 Then these men said, “We shall not find any ground for complaint against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God.”  
Dn0606 Then these high officials and satraps came by agreement to the king and said to him, “O King Darius, live forever!  
Dn0607 All the high officials of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the counselors and the governors are agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce an injunction, that whoever makes petition to any god or man for thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.  
Dn0608 Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be revoked.”  
Dn0609 Therefore King Darius signed the document and injunction.  
Dn0610 When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.  
Dn0611 Then these men came by agreement and found Daniel making petition and plea before his God.  
Dn0612 Then they came near and said before the king, concerning the injunction, “O king! Did you not sign an injunction, that anyone who makes petition to any god or man within thirty days except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king answered and said, “The thing stands fast, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked.”  
Dn0613 Then they answered and said before the king, “Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or the injunction you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”  
Dn0614 Then the king, when he heard these words, was much distressed and set his mind to deliver Daniel. And he labored till the sun went down to rescue him.  
Dn0615 Then these men came by agreement to the king and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or ordinance that the king establishes can be changed.”  
Dn0616 Then the king commanded, and Daniel was brought and cast into the den of lions. The king declared to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!”  
Dn0617 And a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords, that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.  
Dn0618 Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; no diversions were brought to him, and sleep fled from him.  
Dn0619 Then, at break of day, the king arose and went in haste to the den of lions.  
Dn0620 As he came near to the den where Daniel was, he cried out in a tone of anguish. The king declared to Daniel, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?”  
Dn0621 Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever!  
Dn0622 My God sent his angel and shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not harmed me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”  
Dn0623 Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that Daniel be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.  
Dn0624 And the king commanded, and those men who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and cast into the den of lions—they, their children, and their wives. And before they reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.  
Dn0625 Then King Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: “Peace be multiplied to you.  
Dn0626 I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people are to tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, enduring forever; his kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dominion shall be to the end.  
Dn0627 He delivers and rescues; he works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth, he who has saved Daniel from the power of the lions.”  
Dn0628 So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.  
Dn0701 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay in his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the sum of the matter.  
Dn0702 Daniel declared, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea.  
Dn0703 And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another.  
Dn0704 The first was like a lion and had eagles’ wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it.  
Dn0705 And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side. It had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’  
Dn0706 After this I looked, and behold, another, like a leopard, with four wings of a bird on its back. And the beast had four heads, and dominion was given to it.  
Dn0707 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, terrifying and dreadful and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.  
Dn0708 I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots. And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.  
Dn0709 “As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames; its wheels were burning fire.  
Dn0710 A stream of fire issued and came out from before him; a thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the court sat in judgment, and the books were opened.  
Dn0711 “I looked then because of the sound of the great words that the horn was speaking. And as I looked, the beast was killed, and its body destroyed and given over to be burned with fire.  
Dn0712 As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.  
Dn0713 “I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him.  
Dn0714 And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.  
Dn0715 “As for me, Daniel, my spirit within me was anxious, and the visions of my head alarmed me.  
Dn0716 I approached one of those who stood there and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me and made known to me the interpretation of the things.  
Dn0717 ‘These four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth.  
Dn0718 But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, forever and ever.’  
Dn0719 “Then I desired to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was different from all the rest, exceedingly terrifying, with its teeth of iron and claws of bronze, and which devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet,  
Dn0720 and about the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn that came up and before which three of them fell, the horn that had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things, and that seemed greater than its companions.  
Dn0721 As I looked, this horn made war with the saints and prevailed over them,  
Dn0722 until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given for the saints of the Most High, and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom.  
Dn0723 “Thus he said: ‘As for the fourth beast, there shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all the kingdoms, and it shall devour the whole earth, and trample it down, and break it to pieces.  
Dn0724 As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings shall arise, and another shall arise after them; he shall be different from the former ones, and shall put down three kings.  
Dn0725 He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.  
Dn0726 But the court shall sit in judgment, and his dominion shall be taken away, to be consumed and destroyed to the end.  
Dn0727 And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; his kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.’  
Dn0728 “Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts greatly alarmed me, and my color changed, but I kept the matter in my heart.”  
Dn0801 In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.  
Dn0802 And I saw in the vision; and when I saw, I was in Susa the citadel, which is in the province of Elam. And I saw in the vision, and I was at the Ulai canal.  
Dn0803 I raised my eyes and saw, and behold, a ram standing on the bank of the canal. It had two horns, and both horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last.  
Dn0804 I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward. No beast could stand before him, and there was no one who could rescue from his power. He did as he pleased and became great.  
Dn0805 As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west across the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground. And the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes.  
Dn0806 He came to the ram with the two horns, which I had seen standing on the bank of the canal, and he ran at him in his powerful wrath.  
Dn0807 I saw him come close to the ram, and he was enraged against him and struck the ram and broke his two horns. And the ram had no power to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground and trampled on him. And there was no one who could rescue the ram from his power.  
Dn0808 Then the goat became exceedingly great, but when he was strong, the great horn was broken, and instead of it there came up four conspicuous horns toward the four winds of heaven.  
Dn0809 Out of one of them came a little horn, which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the glorious land.  
Dn0810 It grew great, even to the host of heaven. And some of the host and some of the stars it threw down to the ground and trampled on them.  
Dn0811 It became great, even as great as the Prince of the host. And the regular burnt offering was taken away from him, and the place of his sanctuary was overthrown.  
Dn0812 And a host will be given over to it together with the regular burnt offering because of transgression, and it will throw truth to the ground, and it will act and prosper.  
Dn0813 Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to the one who spoke, “For how long is the vision concerning the regular burnt offering, the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled underfoot?”  
Dn0814 And he said to me, “For 2,300 evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state.”  
Dn0815 When I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. And behold, there stood before me one having the appearance of a man.  
Dn0816 And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, and it called, “Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.”  
Dn0817 So he came near where I stood. And when he came, I was frightened and fell on my face. But he said to me, “Understand, O son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end.”  
Dn0818 And when he had spoken to me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face to the ground. But he touched me and made me stand up.  
Dn0819 He said, “Behold, I will make known to you what shall be at the latter end of the indignation, for it refers to the appointed time of the end.  
Dn0820 As for the ram that you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of Media and Persia.  
Dn0821 And the goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn between his eyes is the first king.  
Dn0822 As for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others arose, four kingdoms shall arise from his nation, but not with his power.  
Dn0823 And at the latter end of their kingdom, when the transgressors have reached their limit, a king of bold face, one who understands riddles, shall arise.  
Dn0824 His power shall be great—but not by his own power; and he shall cause fearful destruction and shall succeed in what he does, and destroy mighty men and the people who are the saints.  
Dn0825 By his cunning he shall make deceit prosper under his hand, and in his own mind he shall become great. Without warning he shall destroy many. And he shall even rise up against the Prince of princes, and he shall be broken—but by no human hand.  
Dn0826 The vision of the evenings and the mornings that has been told is true, but seal up the vision, for it refers to many days from now.”  
Dn0827 And I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for some days. Then I rose and went about the king’s business, but I was appalled by the vision and did not understand it.  
Dn0901 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a Mede, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans—  
Dn0902 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.  
Dn0903 Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.  
Dn0904 I prayed to the LORD my God and made confession, saying, “O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,  
Dn0905 we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.  
Dn0906 We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.  
Dn0907 To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you.  
Dn0908 To us, O LORD, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.  
Dn0909 To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him  
Dn0910 and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.  
Dn0911 All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. And the curse and oath that are written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.  
Dn0912 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.  
Dn0913 As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth.  
Dn0914 Therefore the LORD has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice.  
Dn0915 And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly.  
Dn0916 “O Lord, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy hill, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a byword among all who are around us.  
Dn0917 Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord, make your face to shine upon your sanctuary, which is desolate.  
Dn0918 O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.  
Dn0919 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. Delay not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”  
Dn0920 While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before the LORD my God for the holy hill of my God,  
Dn0921 while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, came to me in swift flight at the time of the evening sacrifice.  
Dn0922 He made me understand, speaking with me and saying, “O Daniel, I have now come out to give you insight and understanding.  
Dn0923 At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, and I have come to tell it to you, for you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word and understand the vision.  
Dn0924 “Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.  
Dn0925 Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.  
Dn0926 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.  
Dn0927 And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”  
Dn1001 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. And the word was true, and it was a great conflict. And he understood the word and had understanding of the vision.  
Dn1002 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks.  
Dn1003 I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.  
Dn1004 On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river (that is, the Tigris)  
Dn1005 I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist.  
Dn1006 His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.  
Dn1007 And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision, but a great trembling fell upon them, and they fled to hide themselves.  
Dn1008 So I was left alone and saw this great vision, and no strength was left in me. My radiant appearance was fearfully changed, and I retained no strength.  
Dn1009 Then I heard the sound of his words, and as I heard the sound of his words, I fell on my face in deep sleep with my face to the ground.  
Dn1010 And behold, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees.  
Dn1011 And he said to me, “O Daniel, man greatly loved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for now I have been sent to you.” And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up trembling.  
Dn1012 Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.  
Dn1013 The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days, but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I was left there with the kings of Persia,  
Dn1014 and came to make you understand what is to happen to your people in the latter days. For the vision is for days yet to come.”  
Dn1015 When he had spoken to me according to these words, I turned my face toward the ground and was mute.  
Dn1016 And behold, one in the likeness of the children of man touched my lips. Then I opened my mouth and spoke. I said to him who stood before me, “O my lord, by reason of the vision pains have come upon me, and I retain no strength.  
Dn1017 How can my lord’s servant talk with my lord? For now no strength remains in me, and no breath is left in me.”  
Dn1018 Again one having the appearance of a man touched me and strengthened me.  
Dn1019 And he said, “O man greatly loved, fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage.” And as he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, “Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.”  
Dn1020 Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? But now I will return to fight against the prince of Persia; and when I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come.  
Dn1021 But I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth: there is none who contends by my side against these except Michael, your prince.  
Dn1101 “And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and strengthen him.  
Dn1102 “And now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings shall arise in Persia, and a fourth shall be far richer than all of them. And when he has become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece.  
Dn1103 Then a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion and do as he wills.  
Dn1104 And as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to the authority with which he ruled, for his kingdom shall be plucked up and go to others besides these.  
Dn1105 “Then the king of the south shall be strong, but one of his princes shall be stronger than he and shall rule, and his authority shall be a great authority.  
Dn1106 After some years they shall make an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement. But she shall not retain the strength of her arm, and he and his arm shall not endure, but she shall be given up, and her attendants, he who fathered her, and he who supported her in those times.  
Dn1107 “And from a branch from her roots one shall arise in his place. He shall come against the army and enter the fortress of the king of the north, and he shall deal with them and shall prevail.  
Dn1108 He shall also carry off to Egypt their gods with their metal images and their precious vessels of silver and gold, and for some years he shall refrain from attacking the king of the north.  
Dn1109 Then the latter shall come into the realm of the king of the south but shall return to his own land.  
Dn1110 “His sons shall wage war and assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall keep coming and overflow and pass through, and again shall carry the war as far as his fortress.  
Dn1111 Then the king of the south, moved with rage, shall come out and fight against the king of the north. And he shall raise a great multitude, but it shall be given into his hand.  
Dn1112 And when the multitude is taken away, his heart shall be exalted, and he shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail.  
Dn1113 For the king of the north shall again raise a multitude, greater than the first. And after some years he shall come on with a great army and abundant supplies.  
Dn1114 “In those times many shall rise against the king of the south, and the violent among your own people shall lift themselves up in order to fulfill the vision, but they shall fail.  
Dn1115 Then the king of the north shall come and throw up siegeworks and take a well- fortified city. And the forces of the south shall not stand, or even his best troops, for there shall be no strength to stand.  
Dn1116 But he who comes against him shall do as he wills, and none shall stand before him. And he shall stand in the glorious land, with destruction in his hand.  
Dn1117 He shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and he shall bring terms of an agreement and perform them. He shall give him the daughter of women to destroy the kingdom, but it shall not stand or be to his advantage.  
Dn1118 Afterward he shall turn his face to the coastlands and shall capture many of them, but a commander shall put an end to his insolence. Indeed, he shall turn his insolence back upon him.  
Dn1119 Then he shall turn his face back toward the fortresses of his own land, but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.  
Dn1120 “Then shall arise in his place one who shall send an exactor of tribute for the glory of the kingdom. But within a few days he shall be broken, neither in anger nor in battle.  
Dn1121 In his place shall arise a contemptible person to whom royal majesty has not been given. He shall come in without warning and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.  
Dn1122 Armies shall be utterly swept away before him and broken, even the prince of the covenant.  
Dn1123 And from the time that an alliance is made with him he shall act deceitfully, and he shall become strong with a small people.  
Dn1124 Without warning he shall come into the richest parts of the province, and he shall do what neither his fathers nor his fathers’ fathers have done, scattering among them plunder, spoil, and goods. He shall devise plans against strongholds, but only for a time.  
Dn1125 And he shall stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south with a great army. And the king of the south shall wage war with an exceedingly great and mighty army, but he shall not stand, for plots shall be devised against him.  
Dn1126 Even those who eat his food shall break him. His army shall be swept away, and many shall fall down slain.  
Dn1127 And as for the two kings, their hearts shall be bent on doing evil. They shall speak lies at the same table, but to no avail, for the end is yet to be at the time appointed.  
Dn1128 And he shall return to his land with great wealth, but his heart shall be set against the holy covenant. And he shall work his will and return to his own land.  
Dn1129 “At the time appointed he shall return and come into the south, but it shall not be this time as it was before.  
Dn1130 For ships of Kittim shall come against him, and he shall be afraid and withdraw, and shall turn back and be enraged and take action against the holy covenant. He shall turn back and pay attention to those who forsake the holy covenant.  
Dn1131 Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the regular burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.  
Dn1132 He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant, but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.  
Dn1133 And the wise among the people shall make many understand, though for some days they shall stumble by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder.  
Dn1134 When they stumble, they shall receive a little help. And many shall join themselves to them with flattery,  
Dn1135 and some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, purified, and made white, until the time of the end, for it still awaits the appointed time.  
Dn1136 “And the king shall do as he wills. He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods. He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for what is decreed shall be done.  
Dn1137 He shall pay no attention to the gods of his fathers, or to the one beloved by women. He shall not pay attention to any other god, for he shall magnify himself above all.  
Dn1138 He shall honor the god of fortresses instead of these. A god whom his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts.  
Dn1139 He shall deal with the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god. Those who acknowledge him he shall load with honor. He shall make them rulers over many and shall divide the land for a price.  
Dn1140 “At the time of the end, the king of the south shall attack him, but the king of the north shall rush upon him like a whirlwind, with chariots and horsemen, and with many ships. And he shall come into countries and shall overflow and pass through.  
Dn1141 He shall come into the glorious land. And tens of thousands shall fall, but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom and Moab and the main part of the Ammonites.  
Dn1142 He shall stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape.  
Dn1143 He shall become ruler of the treasures of gold and of silver, and all the precious things of Egypt, and the Libyans and the Cushites shall follow in his train.  
Dn1144 But news from the east and the north shall alarm him, and he shall go out with great fury to destroy and devote many to destruction.  
Dn1145 And he shall pitch his palatial tents between the sea and the glorious holy mountain. Yet he shall come to his end, with none to help him.  
Dn1201 “At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.  
Dn1202 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.  
Dn1203 And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.  
Dn1204 But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”  
Dn1205 Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on this bank of the stream and one on that bank of the stream.  
Dn1206 And someone said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, “How long shall it be till the end of these wonders?”  
Dn1207 And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream; he raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time, and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be finished.  
Dn1208 I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, “O my lord, what shall be the outcome of these things?”  
Dn1209 He said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.  
Dn1210 Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.  
Dn1211 And from the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days.  
Dn1212 Blessed is he who waits and arrives at the 1,335 days.  
Dn1213 But go your way till the end. And you shall rest and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days.”  
Ho0101 The word of the LORD that came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.  
Ho0102 When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, “Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD.”  
Ho0103 So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.  
Ho0104 And the LORD said to him, “Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.  
Ho0105 And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”  
Ho0106 She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the LORD said to him, “Call her name No Mercy, for I will no more have mercy on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.  
Ho0107 But I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the LORD their God. I will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen.”  
Ho0108 When she had weaned No Mercy, she conceived and bore a son.  
Ho0109 And the LORD said, “Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.”  
Ho0110 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” it shall be said to them, “Children of the living God.”  
Ho0111 And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.  
Ho0201 Say to your brothers, “You are my people,” and to your sisters, “You have received mercy.”  
Ho0202 “Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;  
Ho0203 lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst.  
Ho0204 Upon her children also I will have no mercy, because they are children of whoredom.  
Ho0205 For their mother has played the whore; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’  
Ho0206 Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.  
Ho0207 She shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but shall not find them. Then she shall say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.’  
Ho0208 And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished on her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.  
Ho0209 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.  
Ho0210 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.  
Ho0211 And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.  
Ho0212 And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, ‘These are my wages, which my lovers have given me.’ I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them.  
Ho0213 And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned offerings to them and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers and forgot me, declares the LORD.  
Ho0214 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.  
Ho0215 And there I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. And there she shall answer as in the days of her youth, as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.  
Ho0216 “And in that day, declares the LORD, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’  
Ho0217 For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.  
Ho0218 And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.  
Ho0219 And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.  
Ho0220 I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the LORD.  
Ho0221 “And in that day I will answer, declares the LORD, I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth,  
Ho0222 and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, and they shall answer Jezreel,  
Ho0223 and I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, ‘You are my people’; and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”  
Ho0301 And the LORD said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the LORD loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”  
Ho0302 So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.  
Ho0303 And I said to her, “You must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.”  
Ho0304 For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods.  
Ho0305 Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the LORD their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the LORD and to his goodness in the latter days.  
Ho0401 Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;  
Ho0402 there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.  
Ho0403 Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish, and also the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, and even the fish of the sea are taken away.  
Ho0404 Yet let no one contend, and let none accuse, for with you is my contention, O priest.  
Ho0405 You shall stumble by day; the prophet also shall stumble with you by night; and I will destroy your mother.  
Ho0406 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.  
Ho0407 The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.  
Ho0408 They feed on the sin of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.  
Ho0409 And it shall be like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.  
Ho0410 They shall eat, but not be satisfied; they shall play the whore, but not multiply, because they have forsaken the LORD to cherish  
Ho0411 whoredom, wine, and new wine, which take away the understanding.  
Ho0412 My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore.  
Ho0413 They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the whore, and your brides commit adultery.  
Ho0414 I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.  
Ho0415 Though you play the whore, O Israel, let not Judah become guilty. Enter not into Gilgal, nor go up to Beth-aven, and swear not, “As the LORD lives.”  
Ho0416 Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the LORD now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?  
Ho0417 Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone.  
Ho0418 When their drink is gone, they give themselves to whoring; their rulers dearly love shame.  
Ho0419 A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.  
Ho0501 Hear this, O priests! Pay attention, O house of Israel! Give ear, O house of the king! For the judgment is for you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor.  
Ho0502 And the revolters have gone deep into slaughter, but I will discipline all of them.  
Ho0503 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the whore; Israel is defiled.  
Ho0504 Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not the LORD.  
Ho0505 The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt; Judah also shall stumble with them.  
Ho0506 With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the LORD, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.  
Ho0507 They have dealt faithlessly with the LORD; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.  
Ho0508 Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm at Beth-aven; we follow you, O Benjamin!  
Ho0509 Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.  
Ho0510 The princes of Judah have become like those who move the landmark; upon them I will pour out my wrath like water.  
Ho0511 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after filth.  
Ho0512 But I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like dry rot to the house of Judah.  
Ho0513 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound.  
Ho0514 For I will be like a lion to Ephraim, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and no one shall rescue.  
Ho0515 I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me.  
Ho0601 “Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.  
Ho0602 After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.  
Ho0603 Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”  
Ho0604 What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.  
Ho0605 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.  
Ho0606 For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.  
Ho0607 But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.  
Ho0608 Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.  
Ho0609 As robbers lie in wait for a man, so the priests band together; they murder on the way to Shechem; they commit villainy.  
Ho0610 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim’s whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.  
Ho0611 For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed. When I restore the fortunes of my people,  
Ho0701 when I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria, for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside.  
Ho0702 But they do not consider that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.  
Ho0703 By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery.  
Ho0704 They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.  
Ho0705 On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.  
Ho0706 For with hearts like an oven they approach their intrigue; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.  
Ho0707 All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen, and none of them calls upon me.  
Ho0708 Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.  
Ho0709 Strangers devour his strength, and he knows it not; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, and he knows it not.  
Ho0710 The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him, for all this.  
Ho0711 Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense, calling to Egypt, going to Assyria.  
Ho0712 As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.  
Ho0713 Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.  
Ho0714 They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine they gash themselves; they rebel against me.  
Ho0715 Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me.  
Ho0716 They return, but not upward; they are like a treacherous bow; their princes shall fall by the sword because of the insolence of their tongue. This shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.  
Ho0801 Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant and rebelled against my law.  
Ho0802 To me they cry, “My God, we—Israel—know you.”  
Ho0803 Israel has spurned the good; the enemy shall pursue him.  
Ho0804 They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction.  
Ho0805 I have spurned your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?  
Ho0806 For it is from Israel; a craftsman made it; it is not God. The calf of Samaria shall be broken to pieces.  
Ho0807 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no flour; if it were to yield, strangers would devour it.  
Ho0808 Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel.  
Ho0809 For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey wandering alone; Ephraim has hired lovers.  
Ho0810 Though they hire allies among the nations, I will soon gather them up. And the king and princes shall soon writhe because of the tribute.  
Ho0811 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they have become to him altars for sinning.  
Ho0812 Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.  
Ho0813 As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.  
Ho0814 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds.  
Ho0901 Rejoice not, O Israel! Exult not like the peoples; for you have played the whore, forsaking your God. You have loved a prostitute’s wages on all threshing floors.  
Ho0902 Threshing floor and wine vat shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail them.  
Ho0903 They shall not remain in the land of the LORD, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.  
Ho0904 They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the LORD, and their sacrifices shall not please him. It shall be like mourners’ bread to them; all who eat of it shall be defiled; for their bread shall be for their hunger only; it shall not come to the house of the LORD.  
Ho0905 What will you do on the day of the appointed festival, and on the day of the feast of the LORD?  
Ho0906 For behold, they are going away from destruction; but Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.  
Ho0907 The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.  
Ho0908 The prophet is the watchman of Ephraim with my God; yet a fowler’s snare is on all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.  
Ho0909 They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.  
Ho0910 Like grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season, I saw your fathers. But they came to Baal-peor and consecrated themselves to the thing of shame, and became detestable like the thing they loved.  
Ho0911 Ephraim’s glory shall fly away like a bird— no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!  
Ho0912 Even if they bring up children, I will bereave them till none is left. Woe to them when I depart from them!  
Ho0913 Ephraim, as I have seen, was like a young palm planted in a meadow; but Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.  
Ho0914 Give them, O LORD— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.  
Ho0915 Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.  
Ho0916 Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, I will put their beloved children to death.  
Ho0917 My God will reject them because they have not listened to him; they shall be wanderers among the nations.  
Ho1001 Israel is a luxuriant vine that yields its fruit. The more his fruit increased, the more altars he built; as his country improved, he improved his pillars.  
Ho1002 Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. The LORD will break down their altars and destroy their pillars.  
Ho1003 For now they will say: “We have no king, for we do not fear the LORD; and a king—what could he do for us?”  
Ho1004 They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.  
Ho1005 The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced over it and over its glory— for it has departed from them.  
Ho1006 The thing itself shall be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim shall be put to shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his idol.  
Ho1007 Samaria’s king shall perish like a twig on the face of the waters.  
Ho1008 The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed. Thorn and thistle shall grow up on their altars, and they shall say to the mountains, “Cover us,” and to the hills, “Fall on us.”  
Ho1009 From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not the war against the unjust overtake them in Gibeah?  
Ho1010 When I please, I will discipline them, and nations shall be gathered against them when they are bound up for their double iniquity.  
Ho1011 Ephraim was a trained calf that loved to thresh, and I spared her fair neck; but I will put Ephraim to the yoke; Judah must plow; Jacob must harrow for himself.  
Ho1012 Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.  
Ho1013 You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your warriors,  
Ho1014 therefore the tumult of war shall arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle; mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.  
Ho1015 Thus it shall be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great evil. At dawn the king of Israel shall be utterly cut off.  
Ho1101 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.  
Ho1102 The more they were called, the more they went away; they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.  
Ho1103 Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them.  
Ho1104 I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them.  
Ho1105 They shall not return to the land of Egypt, but Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me.  
Ho1106 The sword shall rage against their cities, consume the bars of their gates, and devour them because of their own counsels.  
Ho1107 My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all.  
Ho1108 How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.  
Ho1109 I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.  
Ho1110 They shall go after the LORD; he will roar like a lion; when he roars, his children shall come trembling from the west;  
Ho1111 they shall come trembling like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria, and I will return them to their homes, declares the LORD.  
Ho1112 Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit, but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.  
Ho1201 Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.  
Ho1202 The LORD has an indictment against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he will repay him according to his deeds.  
Ho1203 In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he strove with God.  
Ho1204 He strove with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought his favor. He met God at Bethel, and there God spoke with us—  
Ho1205 the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD is his memorial name:  
Ho1206 “So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.”  
Ho1207 A merchant, in whose hands are false balances, he loves to oppress.  
Ho1208 Ephraim has said, “Ah, but I am rich; I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they cannot find in me iniquity or sin.”  
Ho1209 I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.  
Ho1210 I spoke to the prophets; it was I who multiplied visions, and through the prophets gave parables.  
Ho1211 If there is iniquity in Gilead, they shall surely come to nothing: in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls; their altars also are like stone heaps on the furrows of the field.  
Ho1212 Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep.  
Ho1213 By a prophet the LORD brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was guarded.  
Ho1214 Ephraim has given bitter provocation; so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him and will repay him for his disgraceful deeds.  
Ho1301 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.  
Ho1302 And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, “Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!”  
Ho1303 Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.  
Ho1304 But I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.  
Ho1305 It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought;  
Ho1306 but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.  
Ho1307 So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.  
Ho1308 I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs; I will tear open their breast, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rip them open.  
Ho1309 He destroys you, O Israel, for you are against me, against your helper.  
Ho1310 Where now is your king, to save you in all your cities? Where are all your rulers— those of whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”?  
Ho1311 I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath.  
Ho1312 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store.  
Ho1313 The pangs of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son, for at the right time he does not present himself at the opening of the womb.  
Ho1314 I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion is hidden from my eyes.  
Ho1315 Though he may flourish among his brothers, the east wind, the wind of the LORD, shall come, rising from the wilderness, and his fountain shall dry up; his spring shall be parched; it shall strip his treasury of every precious thing.  
Ho1316 Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.  
Ho1401 Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.  
Ho1402 Take with you words and return to the LORD; say to him, “Take away all iniquity; accept what is good, and we will pay with bulls the vows of our lips.  
Ho1403 Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses; and we will say no more, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.”  
Ho1404 I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.  
Ho1405 I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon;  
Ho1406 his shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon.  
Ho1407 They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow; they shall flourish like the grain; they shall blossom like the vine; their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.  
Ho1408 O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; from me comes your fruit.  
Ho1409 Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.  
Jl0101 The word of the LORD that came to Joel, the son of Pethuel:  
Jl0102 Hear this, you elders; give ear, all inhabitants of the land! Has such a thing happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?  
Jl0103 Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children to another generation.  
Jl0104 What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.  
Jl0105 Awake, you drunkards, and weep, and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.  
Jl0106 For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions’ teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.  
Jl0107 It has laid waste my vine and splintered my fig tree; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches are made white.  
Jl0108 Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.  
Jl0109 The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD. The priests mourn, the ministers of the LORD.  
Jl0110 The fields are destroyed, the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the wine dries up, the oil languishes.  
Jl0111 Be ashamed, O tillers of the soil; wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.  
Jl0112 The vine dries up; the fig tree languishes. Pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are dried up, and gladness dries up from the children of man.  
Jl0113 Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.  
Jl0114 Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.  
Jl0115 Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.  
Jl0116 Is not the food cut off before our eyes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?  
Jl0117 The seed shrivels under the clods; the storehouses are desolate; the granaries are torn down because the grain has dried up.  
Jl0118 How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because there is no pasture for them; even the flocks of sheep suffer.  
Jl0119 To you, O LORD, I call. For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field.  
Jl0120 Even the beasts of the field pant for you because the water brooks are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.  
Jl0201 Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; it is near,  
Jl0202 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.  
Jl0203 Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.  
Jl0204 Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like war horses they run.  
Jl0205 As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle.  
Jl0206 Before them peoples are in anguish; all faces grow pale.  
Jl0207 Like warriors they charge; like soldiers they scale the wall. They march each on his way; they do not swerve from their paths.  
Jl0208 They do not jostle one another; each marches in his path; they burst through the weapons and are not halted.  
Jl0209 They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls, they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.  
Jl0210 The earth quakes before them; the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.  
Jl0211 The LORD utters his voice before his army, for his camp is exceedingly great; he who executes his word is powerful. For the day of the LORD is great and very awesome; who can endure it?  
Jl0212 “Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;  
Jl0213 and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.  
Jl0214 Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the LORD your God?  
Jl0215 Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly;  
Jl0216 gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.  
Jl0217 Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, “Spare your people, O LORD, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”  
Jl0218 Then the LORD became jealous for his land and had pity on his people.  
Jl0219 The LORD answered and said to his people, “Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.  
Jl0220 “I will remove the northerner far from you, and drive him into a parched and desolate land, his vanguard into the eastern sea, and his rear guard into the western sea; the stench and foul smell of him will rise, for he has done great things.  
Jl0221 “Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice, for the LORD has done great things!  
Jl0222 Fear not, you beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness are green; the tree bears its fruit; the fig tree and vine give their full yield.  
Jl0223 “Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.  
Jl0224 “The threshing floors shall be full of grain; the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.  
Jl0225 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.  
Jl0226 “You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.  
Jl0227 You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.  
Jl0228 “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.  
Jl0229 Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit.  
Jl0230 “And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.  
Jl0231 The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.  
Jl0232 And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls.  
Jl0301 “For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,  
Jl0302 I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,  
Jl0303 and have cast lots for my people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute, and have sold a girl for wine and have drunk it.  
Jl0304 “What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily.  
Jl0305 For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.  
Jl0306 You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.  
Jl0307 Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and I will return your payment on your own head.  
Jl0308 I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the LORD has spoken.”  
Jl0309 Proclaim this among the nations: Consecrate for war; stir up the mighty men. Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up.  
Jl0310 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, “I am a warrior.”  
Jl0311 Hasten and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your warriors, O LORD.  
Jl0312 Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.  
Jl0313 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great.  
Jl0314 Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.  
Jl0315 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.  
Jl0316 The LORD roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the LORD is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.  
Jl0317 “So you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.  
Jl0318 “And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah shall flow with water; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD and water the Valley of Shittim.  
Jl0319 “Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the people of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.  
Jl0320 But Judah shall be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem to all generations.  
Jl0321 I will avenge their blood, blood I have not avenged, for the LORD dwells in Zion.”  
Am0101 The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.  
Am0102 And he said: “The LORD roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers.”  
Am0103 Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron.  
Am0104 So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad.  
Am0105 I will break the gate-bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir,” says the LORD.  
Am0106 Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they carried into exile a whole people to deliver them up to Edom.  
Am0107 So I will send a fire upon the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour her strongholds.  
Am0108 I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; I will turn my hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,” says the Lord GOD.  
Am0109 Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they delivered up a whole people to Edom, and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.  
Am0110 So I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour her strongholds.”  
Am0111 Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever.  
Am0112 So I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah.”  
Am0113 Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead, that they might enlarge their border.  
Am0114 So I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour her strongholds, with shouting on the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;  
Am0115 and their king shall go into exile, he and his princes together,” says the LORD.  
Am0201 Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.  
Am0202 So I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth, and Moab shall die amid uproar, amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet;  
Am0203 I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will kill all its princes with him,” says the LORD.  
Am0204 Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the LORD, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked.  
Am0205 So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.”  
Am0206 Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals—  
Am0207 those who trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth and turn aside the way of the afflicted; a man and his father go in to the same girl, so that my holy name is profaned;  
Am0208 they lay themselves down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge, and in the house of their God they drink the wine of those who have been fined.  
Am0209 “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars and who was as strong as the oaks; I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.  
Am0210 Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.  
Am0211 And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?” declares the LORD.  
Am0212 “But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, ‘You shall not prophesy.’  
Am0213 “Behold, I will press you down in your place, as a cart full of sheaves presses down.  
Am0214 Flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not retain his strength, nor shall the mighty save his life;  
Am0215 he who handles the bow shall not stand, and he who is swift of foot shall not save himself, nor shall he who rides the horse save his life;  
Am0216 and he who is stout of heart among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day,” declares the LORD.  
Am0301 Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:  
Am0302 “You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.  
Am0303 “Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?  
Am0304 Does a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out from his den, if he has taken nothing?  
Am0305 Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth, when there is no trap for it? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when it has taken nothing?  
Am0306 Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the LORD has done it?  
Am0307 “For the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.  
Am0308 The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken; who can but prophesy?”  
Am0309 Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdod and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt, and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great tumults within her, and the oppressed in her midst.”  
Am0310 “They do not know how to do right,” declares the LORD, “those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”  
Am0311 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “An adversary shall surround the land and bring down your defenses from you, and your strongholds shall be plundered.”  
Am0312 Thus says the LORD: “As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the people of Israel who dwell in Samaria be rescued, with the corner of a couch and part of a bed.  
Am0313 “Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob,” declares the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,  
Am0314 “that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions, I will punish the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground.  
Am0315 I will strike the winter house along with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end,” declares the LORD.  
Am0401 “Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’  
Am0402 The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness that, behold, the days are coming upon you, when they shall take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishhooks.  
Am0403 And you shall go out through the breaches, each one straight ahead; and you shall be cast out into Harmon,” declares the LORD.  
Am0404 “Come to Bethel, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days;  
Am0405 offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them; for so you love to do, O people of Israel!” declares the Lord GOD.  
Am0406 “I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.  
Am0407 “I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would have rain, and the field on which it did not rain would wither;  
Am0408 so two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water, and would not be satisfied; yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.  
Am0409 “I struck you with blight and mildew; your many gardens and your vineyards, your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured; yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.  
Am0410 “I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, and carried away your horses, and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.  
Am0411 “I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.  
Am0412 “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”  
Am0413 For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of hosts, is his name!  
Am0501 Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:  
Am0502 “Fallen, no more to rise, is the virgin Israel; forsaken on her land, with none to raise her up.”  
Am0503 For thus says the Lord GOD: “The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out a hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel.”  
Am0504 For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: “Seek me and live;  
Am0505 but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nothing.”  
Am0506 Seek the LORD and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,  
Am0507 O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!  
Am0508 He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the LORD is his name;  
Am0509 who makes destruction flash forth against the strong, so that destruction comes upon the fortress.  
Am0510 They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks the truth.  
Am0511 Therefore because you trample on the poor and you exact taxes of grain from him, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.  
Am0512 For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.  
Am0513 Therefore he who is prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.  
Am0514 Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.  
Am0515 Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the LORD, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.  
Am0516 Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: “In all the squares there shall be wailing, and in all the streets they shall say, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,  
Am0517 and in all vineyards there shall be wailing, for I will pass through your midst,” says the LORD.  
Am0518 Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why would you have the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light,  
Am0519 as if a man fled from a lion, and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall, and a serpent bit him.  
Am0520 Is not the day of the LORD darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?  
Am0521 “I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.  
Am0522 Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them.  
Am0523 Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen.  
Am0524 But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.  
Am0525 “Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?  
Am0526 You shall take up Sikkuth your king, and Kiyyun your star-god—your images that you made for yourselves,  
Am0527 and I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of hosts.  
Am0601 “Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel comes!  
Am0602 Pass over to Calneh, and see, and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory,  
Am0603 O you who put far away the day of disaster and bring near the seat of violence?  
Am0604 “Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves out on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall,  
Am0605 who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David invent for themselves instruments of music,  
Am0606 who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!  
Am0607 Therefore they shall now be the first of those who go into exile, and the revelry of those who stretch themselves out shall pass away.”  
Am0608 The Lord GOD has sworn by himself, declares the LORD, the God of hosts: “I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his strongholds, and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it.”  
Am0609 And if ten men remain in one house, they shall die.  
Am0610 And when one’s relative, the one who anoints him for burial, shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, “Is there still anyone with you?” he shall say, “No”; and he shall say, “Silence! We must not mention the name of the LORD.”  
Am0611 For behold, the LORD commands, and the great house shall be struck down into fragments, and the little house into bits.  
Am0612 Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—  
Am0613 you who rejoice in Lo-debar, who say, “Have we not by our own strength captured Karnaim for ourselves?”  
Am0614 “For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of hosts; “and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”  
Am0701 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.  
Am0702 When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, “O Lord GOD, please forgive! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!”  
Am0703 The LORD relented concerning this: “It shall not be,” said the LORD.  
Am0704 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.  
Am0705 Then I said, “O Lord GOD, please cease! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!”  
Am0706 The LORD relented concerning this: “This also shall not be,” said the Lord GOD.  
Am0707 This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.  
Am0708 And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them;  
Am0709 the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”  
Am0710 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.  
Am0711 For thus Amos has said, “‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.’”  
Am0712 And Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there,  
Am0713 but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”  
Am0714 Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor a prophet’s son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs.  
Am0715 But the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’  
Am0716 Now therefore hear the word of the LORD. “You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’  
Am0717 Therefore thus says the LORD: “‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided up with a measuring line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”  
Am0801 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.  
Am0802 And he said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me, “The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass by them.  
Am0803 The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,” declares the Lord GOD. “So many dead bodies!” “They are thrown everywhere!” “Silence!”  
Am0804 Hear this, you who trample on the needy and bring the poor of the land to an end,  
Am0805 saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances,  
Am0806 that we may buy the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and sell the chaff of the wheat?”  
Am0807 The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: “Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.  
Am0808 Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who dwells in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”  
Am0809 “And on that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.  
Am0810 I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.  
Am0811 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord GOD, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.  
Am0812 They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the LORD, but they shall not find it.  
Am0813 “In that day the lovely virgins and the young men shall faint for thirst.  
Am0814 Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’ and, ‘As the Way of Beersheba lives,’ they shall fall, and never rise again.”  
Am0901 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: “Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall escape.  
Am0902 “If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.  
Am0903 If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.  
Am0904 And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; and I will fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good.”  
Am0905 The Lord GOD of hosts, he who touches the earth and it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile, and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;  
Am0906 who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and founds his vault upon the earth; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth— the LORD is his name.  
Am0907 “Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?  
Am0908 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.  
Am0909 “For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.  
Am0910 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, ‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’  
Am0911 “In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old,  
Am0912 that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name,” declares the LORD who does this.  
Am0913 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and all the hills shall flow with it.  
Am0914 I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.  
Am0915 I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God.  
Ob0101 The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom: We have heard a report from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: “Rise up! Let us rise against her for battle!”  
Ob0102 Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you shall be utterly despised.  
Ob0103 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”  
Ob0104 Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.  
Ob0105 If thieves came to you, if plunderers came by night— how you have been destroyed!— would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?  
Ob0106 How Esau has been pillaged, his treasures sought out!  
Ob0107 All your allies have driven you to your border; those at peace with you have deceived you; they have prevailed against you; those who eat your bread have set a trap beneath you— you have no understanding.  
Ob0108 Will I not on that day, declares the LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?  
Ob0109 And your mighty men shall be dismayed, O Teman, so that every man from Mount Esau will be cut off by slaughter.  
Ob0110 Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever.  
Ob0111 On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.  
Ob0112 But do not gloat over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; do not boast in the day of distress.  
Ob0113 Do not enter the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; do not gloat over his disaster in the day of his calamity; do not loot his wealth in the day of his calamity.  
Ob0114 Do not stand at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives; do not hand over his survivors in the day of distress.  
Ob0115 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.  
Ob0116 For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so all the nations shall drink continually; they shall drink and swallow, and shall be as though they had never been.  
Ob0117 But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.  
Ob0118 The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken.  
Ob0119 Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah shall possess the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.  
Ob0120 The exiles of this host of the people of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the Negeb.  
Ob0121 Saviors shall go up to Mount Zion to rule Mount Esau, and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.  
Jh0101 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,  
Jh0102 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me.”  
Jh0103 But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.  
Jh0104 But the LORD hurled a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.  
Jh0105 Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they hurled the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep.  
Jh0106 So the captain came and said to him, “What do you mean, you sleeper? Arise, call out to your god! Perhaps the god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.”  
Jh0107 And they said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots, that we may know on whose account this evil has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.  
Jh0108 Then they said to him, “Tell us on whose account this evil has come upon us. What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?”  
Jh0109 And he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”  
Jh0110 Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him, “What is this that you have done!” For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.  
Jh0111 Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?” For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.  
Jh0112 He said to them, “Pick me up and hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you, for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.”  
Jh0113 Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.  
Jh0114 Therefore they called out to the LORD, “O LORD, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not on us innocent blood, for you, O LORD, have done as it pleased you.”  
Jh0115 So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging.  
Jh0116 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice to the LORD and made vows.  
Jh0117 And the LORD appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.  
Jh0201 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish,  
Jh0202 saying, “I called out to the LORD, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice.  
Jh0203 For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me.  
Jh0204 Then I said, ‘I am driven away from your sight; yet I shall again look upon your holy temple.’  
Jh0205 The waters closed in over me to take my life; the deep surrounded me; weeds were wrapped about my head  
Jh0206 at the roots of the mountains. I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever; yet you brought up my life from the pit, O LORD my God.  
Jh0207 When my life was fainting away, I remembered the LORD, and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.  
Jh0208 Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love.  
Jh0209 But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the LORD!”  
Jh0210 And the LORD spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out upon the dry land.  
Jh0301 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying,  
Jh0302 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you.”  
Jh0303 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey in breadth.  
Jh0304 Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”  
Jh0305 And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.  
Jh0306 The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.  
Jh0307 And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water,  
Jh0308 but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.  
Jh0309 Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”  
Jh0310 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.  
Jh0401 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.  
Jh0402 And he prayed to the LORD and said, “O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.  
Jh0403 Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”  
Jh0404 And the LORD said, “Do you do well to be angry?”  
Jh0405 Jonah went out of the city and sat to the east of the city and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city.  
Jh0406 Now the LORD God appointed a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.  
Jh0407 But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant, so that it withered.  
Jh0408 When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”  
Jh0409 But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.”  
Jh0410 And the LORD said, “You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night.  
Jh0411 And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”  
Mi0101 The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.  
Mi0102 Hear, you peoples, all of you; pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it, and let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.  
Mi0103 For behold, the LORD is coming out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.  
Mi0104 And the mountains will melt under him, and the valleys will split open, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a steep place.  
Mi0105 All this is for the transgression of Jacob and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?  
Mi0106 Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards, and I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations.  
Mi0107 All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces, all her wages shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste, for from the fee of a prostitute she gathered them, and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.  
Mi0108 For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.  
Mi0109 For her wound is incurable, and it has come to Judah; it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.  
Mi0110 Tell it not in Gath; weep not at all; in Beth-le-aphrah roll yourselves in the dust.  
Mi0111 Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame; the inhabitants of Zaanan do not come out; the lamentation of Beth-ezel shall take away from you its standing place.  
Mi0112 For the inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good, because disaster has come down from the LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.  
Mi0113 Harness the steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; it was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.  
Mi0114 Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.  
Mi0115 I will again bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.  
Mi0116 Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile.  
Mi0201 Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.  
Mi0202 They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.  
Mi0203 Therefore thus says the LORD: behold, against this family I am devising disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of disaster.  
Mi0204 In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, “We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our fields.”  
Mi0205 Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.  
Mi0206 “Do not preach”—thus they preach— “one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us.”  
Mi0207 Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Has the LORD grown impatient? Are these his deeds? Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?  
Mi0208 But lately my people have risen up as an enemy; you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.  
Mi0209 The women of my people you drive out from their delightful houses; from their young children you take away my splendor forever.  
Mi0210 Arise and go, for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.  
Mi0211 If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be the preacher for this people!  
Mi0212 I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob; I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men.  
Mi0213 He who opens the breach goes up before them; they break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king passes on before them, the LORD at their head.  
Mi0301 And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?—  
Mi0302 you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones,  
Mi0303 who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces and chop them up like meat in a pot, like flesh in a cauldron.  
Mi0304 Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.  
Mi0305 Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry “Peace” when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.  
Mi0306 Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be black over them;  
Mi0307 the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.  
Mi0308 But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the LORD, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.  
Mi0309 Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight,  
Mi0310 who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity.  
Mi0311 Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the LORD and say, “Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us.”  
Mi0312 Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.  
Mi0401 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it,  
Mi0402 and many nations shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.  
Mi0403 He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore;  
Mi0404 but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.  
Mi0405 For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.  
Mi0406 In that day, declares the LORD, I will assemble the lame and gather those who have been driven away and those whom I have afflicted;  
Mi0407 and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the LORD will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.  
Mi0408 And you, O tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you shall it come, the former dominion shall come, kingship for the daughter of Jerusalem.  
Mi0409 Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pain seized you like a woman in labor?  
Mi0410 Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor, for now you shall go out from the city and dwell in the open country; you shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.  
Mi0411 Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, “Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”  
Mi0412 But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.  
Mi0413 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples; and shall devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.  
Mi0501 Now muster your troops, O daughter of troops; siege is laid against us; with a rod they strike the judge of Israel on the cheek.  
Mi0502 But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.  
Mi0503 Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of his brothers shall return to the people of Israel.  
Mi0504 And he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God. And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great to the ends of the earth.  
Mi0505 And he shall be their peace. When the Assyrian comes into our land and treads in our palaces, then we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princes of men;  
Mi0506 they shall shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at its entrances; and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border.  
Mi0507 Then the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which delay not for a man nor wait for the children of man.  
Mi0508 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which, when it goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.  
Mi0509 Your hand shall be lifted up over your adversaries, and all your enemies shall be cut off.  
Mi0510 And in that day, declares the LORD, I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots;  
Mi0511 and I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds;  
Mi0512 and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;  
Mi0513 and I will cut off your carved images and your pillars from among you, and you shall bow down no more to the work of your hands;  
Mi0514 and I will root out your Asherah images from among you and destroy your cities.  
Mi0515 And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.  
Mi0601 Hear what the LORD says: Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice.  
Mi0602 Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the LORD, and you enduring foundations of the earth, for the LORD has an indictment against his people, and he will contend with Israel.  
Mi0603 “O my people, what have I done to you? How have I wearied you? Answer me!  
Mi0604 For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.  
Mi0605 O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of the LORD.”  
Mi0606 “With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?  
Mi0607 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”  
Mi0608 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?  
Mi0609 The voice of the LORD cries to the city— and it is sound wisdom to fear your name: “Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it!  
Mi0610 Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is accursed?  
Mi0611 Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales and with a bag of deceitful weights?  
Mi0612 Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.  
Mi0613 Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow, making you desolate because of your sins.  
Mi0614 You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and there shall be hunger within you; you shall put away, but not preserve, and what you preserve I will give to the sword.  
Mi0615 You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.  
Mi0616 For you have kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and you have walked in their counsels, that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing; so you shall bear the scorn of my people.”  
Mi0701 Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.  
Mi0702 The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net.  
Mi0703 Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.  
Mi0704 The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.  
Mi0705 Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms;  
Mi0706 for the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.  
Mi0707 But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.  
Mi0708 Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me.  
Mi0709 I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication.  
Mi0710 Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will look upon her; now she will be trampled down like the mire of the streets.  
Mi0711 A day for the building of your walls! In that day the boundary shall be far extended.  
Mi0712 In that day they will come to you, from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain.  
Mi0713 But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their deeds.  
Mi0714 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old.  
Mi0715 As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.  
Mi0716 The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;  
Mi0717 they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the LORD our God, and they shall be in fear of you.  
Mi0718 Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.  
Mi0719 He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.  
Mi0720 You will show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.  
Na0101 An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.  
Na0102 The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and wrathful; the LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies.  
Na0103 The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and the LORD will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.  
Na0104 He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither; the bloom of Lebanon withers.  
Na0105 The mountains quake before him; the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who dwell in it.  
Na0106 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken into pieces by him.  
Na0107 The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.  
Na0108 But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.  
Na0109 What do you plot against the LORD? He will make a complete end; trouble will not rise up a second time.  
Na0110 For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried.  
Na0111 From you came one who plotted evil against the LORD, a worthless counselor.  
Na0112 Thus says the LORD, “Though they are at full strength and many, they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.  
Na0113 And now I will break his yoke from off you and will burst your bonds apart.”  
Na0114 The LORD has given commandment about you: “No more shall your name be perpetuated; from the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the metal image. I will make your grave, for you are vile.”  
Na0115 Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows, for never again shall the worthless pass through you; he is utterly cut off.  
Na0201 The scatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; dress for battle; collect all your strength.  
Na0202 For the LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have plundered them and ruined their branches.  
Na0203 The shield of his mighty men is red; his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots come with flashing metal on the day he musters them; the cypress spears are brandished.  
Na0204 The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches; they dart like lightning.  
Na0205 He remembers his officers; they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower is set up.  
Na0206 The river gates are opened; the palace melts away;  
Na0207 its mistress is stripped; she is carried off, her slave girls lamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.  
Na0208 Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. “Halt! Halt!” they cry, but none turns back.  
Na0209 Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things.  
Na0210 Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow pale!  
Na0211 Where is the lions’ den, the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and lioness went, where his cubs were, with none to disturb?  
Na0212 The lion tore enough for his cubs and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.  
Na0213 Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard.  
Na0301 Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and plunder— no end to the prey!  
Na0302 The crack of the whip, and rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!  
Na0303 Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over the bodies!  
Na0304 And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her whorings, and peoples with her charms.  
Na0305 Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and will lift up your skirts over your face; and I will make nations look at your nakedness and kingdoms at your shame.  
Na0306 I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle.  
Na0307 And all who look at you will shrink from you and say, “Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her?” Where shall I seek comforters for you?  
Na0308 Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, and water her wall?  
Na0309 Cush was her strength; Egypt too, and that without limit; Put and the Libyans were her helpers.  
Na0310 Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.  
Na0311 You also will be drunken; you will go into hiding; you will seek a refuge from the enemy.  
Na0312 All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs— if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.  
Na0313 Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has devoured your bars.  
Na0314 Draw water for the siege; strengthen your forts; go into the clay; tread the mortar; take hold of the brick mold!  
Na0315 There will the fire devour you; the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust; multiply like the grasshopper!  
Na0316 You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust spreads its wings and flies away.  
Na0317 Your princes are like grasshoppers, your scribes like clouds of locusts settling on the fences in a day of cold— when the sun rises, they fly away; no one knows where they are.  
Na0318 Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them.  
Na0319 There is no easing your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil?  
Hk0101 The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw.  
Hk0102 O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save?  
Hk0103 Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.  
Hk0104 So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.  
Hk0105 “Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.  
Hk0106 For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own.  
Hk0107 They are dreaded and fearsome; their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.  
Hk0108 Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.  
Hk0109 They all come for violence, all their faces forward. They gather captives like sand.  
Hk0110 At kings they scoff, and at rulers they laugh. They laugh at every fortress, for they pile up earth and take it.  
Hk0111 Then they sweep by like the wind and go on, guilty men, whose own might is their god!”  
Hk0112 Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.  
Hk0113 You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?  
Hk0114 You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.  
Hk0115 He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net; he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad.  
Hk0116 Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his dragnet; for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich.  
Hk0117 Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing nations forever?  
Hk0201 I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.  
Hk0202 And the LORD answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.  
Hk0203 For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.  
Hk0204 “Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.  
Hk0205 “Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples.”  
Hk0206 Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, “Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own— for how long?— and loads himself with pledges!”  
Hk0207 Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be spoil for them.  
Hk0208 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.  
Hk0209 “Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!  
Hk0210 You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life.  
Hk0211 For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the woodwork respond.  
Hk0212 “Woe to him who builds a town with blood and founds a city on iniquity!  
Hk0213 Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?  
Hk0214 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.  
Hk0215 “Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink— you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!  
Hk0216 You will have your fill of shame instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD’s right hand will come around to you, and utter shame will come upon your glory!  
Hk0217 The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.  
Hk0218 “What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols!  
Hk0219 Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a silent stone, Arise! Can this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.  
Hk0220 But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.”  
Hk0301 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.  
Hk0302 O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.  
Hk0303 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His splendor covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.  
Hk0304 His brightness was like the light; rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power.  
Hk0305 Before him went pestilence, and plague followed at his heels.  
Hk0306 He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.  
Hk0307 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.  
Hk0308 Was your wrath against the rivers, O LORD? Was your anger against the rivers, or your indignation against the sea, when you rode on your horses, on your chariot of salvation?  
Hk0309 You stripped the sheath from your bow, calling for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers.  
Hk0310 The mountains saw you and writhed; the raging waters swept on; the deep gave forth its voice; it lifted its hands on high.  
Hk0311 The sun and moon stood still in their place at the light of your arrows as they sped, at the flash of your glittering spear.  
Hk0312 You marched through the earth in fury; you threshed the nations in anger.  
Hk0313 You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. Selah  
Hk0314 You pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.  
Hk0315 You trampled the sea with your horses, the surging of mighty waters.  
Hk0316 I hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound; rottenness enters into my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us.  
Hk0317 Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls,  
Hk0318 yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.  
Hk0319 GOD, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.  
Zp0101 The word of the LORD that came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.  
Zp0102 “I will utterly sweep away everything from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.  
Zp0103 “I will sweep away man and beast; I will sweep away the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea, and the rubble with the wicked. I will cut off mankind from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.  
Zp0104 “I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal and the name of the idolatrous priests along with the priests,  
Zp0105 those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens, those who bow down and swear to the LORD and yet swear by Milcom,  
Zp0106 those who have turned back from following the LORD, who do not seek the LORD or inquire of him.”  
Zp0107 Be silent before the Lord GOD! For the day of the LORD is near; the LORD has prepared a sacrifice and consecrated his guests.  
Zp0108 And on the day of the LORD’s sacrifice— “I will punish the officials and the king’s sons and all who array themselves in foreign attire.  
Zp0109 On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master’s house with violence and fraud.  
Zp0110 “On that day,” declares the LORD, “a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second Quarter, a loud crash from the hills.  
Zp0111 Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar! For all the traders are no more; all who weigh out silver are cut off.  
Zp0112 At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, ‘The LORD will not do good, nor will he do ill.’  
Zp0113 Their goods shall be plundered, and their houses laid waste. Though they build houses, they shall not inhabit them; though they plant vineyards, they shall not drink wine from them.”  
Zp0114 The great day of the LORD is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day of the LORD is bitter; the mighty man cries aloud there.  
Zp0115 A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness,  
Zp0116 a day of trumpet blast and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the lofty battlements.  
Zp0117 I will bring distress on mankind, so that they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD; their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.  
Zp0118 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the LORD. In the fire of his jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full and sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.  
Zp0201 Gather together, yes, gather, O shameless nation,  
Zp0202 before the decree takes effect—before the day passes away like chaff— before there comes upon you the burning anger of the LORD, before there comes upon you the day of the anger of the LORD.  
Zp0203 Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.  
Zp0204 For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ashkelon shall become a desolation; Ashdod’s people shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted.  
Zp0205 Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.  
Zp0206 And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, with meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks.  
Zp0207 The seacoast shall become the possession of the remnant of the house of Judah, on which they shall graze, and in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening. For the LORD their God will be mindful of them and restore their fortunes.  
Zp0208 “I have heard the taunts of Moab and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory.  
Zp0209 Therefore, as I live,” declares the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”  
Zp0210 This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they taunted and boasted against the people of the LORD of hosts.  
Zp0211 The LORD will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.  
Zp0212 You also, O Cushites, shall be slain by my sword.  
Zp0213 And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.  
Zp0214 Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts; even the owl and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.  
Zp0215 This is the exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one else.” What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.  
Zp0301 Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled, the oppressing city!  
Zp0302 She listens to no voice; she accepts no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she does not draw near to her God.  
Zp0303 Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.  
Zp0304 Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men; her priests profane what is holy; they do violence to the law.  
Zp0305 The LORD within her is righteous; he does no injustice; every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.  
Zp0306 “I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.  
Zp0307 I said, ‘Surely you will fear me; you will accept correction. Then your dwelling would not be cut off according to all that I have appointed against you.’ But all the more they were eager to make all their deeds corrupt.  
Zp0308 “Therefore wait for me,” declares the LORD, “for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed.  
Zp0309 “For at that time I will change the speech of the peoples to a pure speech, that all of them may call upon the name of the LORD and serve him with one accord.  
Zp0310 From beyond the rivers of Cush my worshipers, the daughter of my dispersed ones, shall bring my offering.  
Zp0311 “On that day you shall not be put to shame because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain.  
Zp0312 But I will leave in your midst a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the LORD,  
Zp0313 those who are left in Israel; they shall do no injustice and speak no lies, nor shall there be found in their mouth a deceitful tongue. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”  
Zp0314 Sing aloud, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel! Rejoice and exult with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem!  
Zp0315 The LORD has taken away the judgments against you; he has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; you shall never again fear evil.  
Zp0316 On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: “Fear not, O Zion; let not your hands grow weak.  
Zp0317 The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.  
Zp0318 I will gather those of you who mourn for the festival, so that you will no longer suffer reproach.  
Zp0319 Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors. And I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.  
Zp0320 At that time I will bring you in, at the time when I gather you together; for I will make you renowned and praised among all the peoples of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes,” says the LORD.  
Hg0101 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest:  
Hg0102 “Thus says the LORD of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.”  
Hg0103 Then the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet,  
Hg0104 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?  
Hg0105 Now, therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.  
Hg0106 You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.  
Hg0107 “Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.  
Hg0108 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the LORD.  
Hg0109 You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.  
Hg0110 Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.  
Hg0111 And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors.”  
Hg0112 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD.  
Hg0113 Then Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke to the people with the LORD’s message, “I am with you, declares the LORD.”  
Hg0114 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,  
Hg0115 on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.  
Hg0201 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet:  
Hg0202 “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say,  
Hg0203 ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?  
Hg0204 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the LORD. Be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the LORD. Work, for I am with you, declares the LORD of hosts,  
Hg0205 according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit remains in your midst. Fear not.  
Hg0206 For thus says the LORD of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land.  
Hg0207 And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts.  
Hg0208 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the LORD of hosts.  
Hg0209 The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the LORD of hosts.’”  
Hg0210 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet,  
Hg0211 “Thus says the LORD of hosts: Ask the priests about the law:  
Hg0212 ‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or oil or any kind of food, does it become holy?’” The priests answered and said, “No.”  
Hg0213 Then Haggai said, “If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered and said, “It does become unclean.”  
Hg0214 Then Haggai answered and said, “So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the LORD, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.  
Hg0215 Now then, consider from this day onward. Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the LORD,  
Hg0216 how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.  
Hg0217 I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the LORD.  
Hg0218 Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider:  
Hg0219 Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on I will bless you.”  
Hg0220 The word of the LORD came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month,  
Hg0221 “Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth,  
Hg0222 and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall go down, every one by the sword of his brother.  
Hg0223 On that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, the son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the LORD of hosts.”  
Zc0101 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying,  
Zc0102 “The LORD was very angry with your fathers.  
Zc0103 Therefore say to them, Thus declares the LORD of hosts: Return to me, says the LORD of hosts, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts.  
Zc0104 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the LORD.  
Zc0105 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?  
Zc0106 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they repented and said, ‘As the LORD of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us.’”  
Zc0107 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, son of Iddo, saying,  
Zc0108 “I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.  
Zc0109 Then I said, ‘What are these, my lord?’ The angel who talked with me said to me, ‘I will show you what they are.’  
Zc0110 So the man who was standing among the myrtle trees answered, ‘These are they whom the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.’  
Zc0111 And they answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, and said, ‘We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth remains at rest.’  
Zc0112 Then the angel of the LORD said, ‘O LORD of hosts, how long will you have no mercy on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, against which you have been angry these seventy years?’  
Zc0113 And the LORD answered gracious and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.  
Zc0114 So the angel who talked with me said to me, ‘Cry out, Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion.  
Zc0115 And I am exceedingly angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little, they furthered the disaster.  
Zc0116 Therefore, thus says the LORD, I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy; my house shall be built in it, declares the LORD of hosts, and the measuring line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.  
Zc0117 Cry out again, Thus says the LORD of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.’”  
Zc0118 And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four horns!  
Zc0119 And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” And he said to me, “These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”  
Zc0120 Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.  
Zc0121 And I said, “What are these coming to do?” He said, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one raised his head. And these have come to terrify them, to cast down the horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”  
Zc0201 And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand!  
Zc0202 Then I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”  
Zc0203 And behold, the angel who talked with me came forward, and another angel came forward to meet him  
Zc0204 and said to him, “Run, say to that young man, ‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of people and livestock in it.  
Zc0205 And I will be to her a wall of fire all around, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory in her midst.’”  
Zc0206 Up! Up! Flee from the land of the north, declares the LORD. For I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, declares the LORD.  
Zc0207 Up! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.  
Zc0208 For thus said the LORD of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:  
Zc0209 “Behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me.  
Zc0210 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and I will dwell in your midst, declares the LORD.  
Zc0211 And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.  
Zc0212 And the LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.”  
Zc0213 Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD, for he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.  
Zc0301 Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.  
Zc0302 And the LORD said to Satan, “The LORD rebuke you, O Satan! The LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?”  
Zc0303 Now Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed with filthy garments.  
Zc0304 And the angel said to those who were standing before him, “Remove the filthy garments from him.” And to him he said, “Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with pure vestments.”  
Zc0305 And I said, “Let them put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD was standing by.  
Zc0306 And the angel of the LORD solemnly assured Joshua,  
Zc0307 “Thus says the LORD of hosts: If you will walk in my ways and keep my charge, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right of access among those who are standing here.  
Zc0308 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your friends who sit before you, for they are men who are a sign: behold, I will bring my servant the Branch.  
Zc0309 For behold, on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven eyes, I will engrave its inscription, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.  
Zc0310 In that day, declares the LORD of hosts, every one of you will invite his neighbor to come under his vine and under his fig tree.”  
Zc0401 And the angel who talked with me came again and woke me, like a man who is awakened out of his sleep.  
Zc0402 And he said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps that are on the top of it.  
Zc0403 And there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.”  
Zc0404 And I said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”  
Zc0405 Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”  
Zc0406 Then he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.  
Zc0407 Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain. And he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”  
Zc0408 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,  
Zc0409 “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you.  
Zc0410 For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. “These seven are the eyes of the LORD, which range through the whole earth.”  
Zc0411 Then I said to him, “What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?”  
Zc0412 And a second time I answered and said to him, “What are these two branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from which the golden oil is poured out?”  
Zc0413 He said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”  
Zc0414 Then he said, “These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”  
Zc0501 Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying scroll!  
Zc0502 And he said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”  
Zc0503 Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side.  
Zc0504 I will send it out, declares the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall remain in his house and consume it, both timber and stones.”  
Zc0505 Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, “Lift your eyes and see what this is that is going out.”  
Zc0506 And I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the basket that is going out.” And he said, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”  
Zc0507 And behold, the leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the basket!  
Zc0508 And he said, “This is Wickedness.” And he thrust her back into the basket, and thrust down the leaden weight on its opening.  
Zc0509 Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward! The wind was in their wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven.  
Zc0510 Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are they taking the basket?”  
Zc0511 He said to me, “To the land of Shinar, to build a house for it. And when this is prepared, they will set the basket down there on its base.”  
Zc0601 Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains. And the mountains were mountains of bronze.  
Zc0602 The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,  
Zc0603 the third white horses, and the fourth chariot dappled horses—all of them strong.  
Zc0604 Then I answered and said to the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”  
Zc0605 And the angel answered and said to me, “These are going out to the four winds of heaven, after presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth.  
Zc0606 The chariot with the black horses goes toward the north country, the white ones go after them, and the dappled ones go toward the south country.”  
Zc0607 When the strong horses came out, they were impatient to go and patrol the earth. And he said, “Go, patrol the earth.” So they patrolled the earth.  
Zc0608 Then he cried to me, “Behold, those who go toward the north country have set my Spirit at rest in the north country.”  
Zc0609 And the word of the LORD came to me:  
Zc0610 “Take from the exiles Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have arrived from Babylon, and go the same day to the house of Josiah, the son of Zephaniah.  
Zc0611 Take from them silver and gold, and make a crown, and set it on the head of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.  
Zc0612 And say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: for he shall branch out from his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD.  
Zc0613 It is he who shall build the temple of the LORD and shall bear royal honor, and shall sit and rule on his throne. And there shall be a priest on his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.”’  
Zc0614 And the crown shall be in the temple of the LORD as a reminder to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Hen the son of Zephaniah.  
Zc0615 “And those who are far off shall come and help to build the temple of the LORD. And you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if you will diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.”  
Zc0701 In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the LORD came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev.  
Zc0702 Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech and their men to entreat the favor of the LORD,  
Zc0703 saying to the priests of the house of the LORD of hosts and the prophets, “Should I weep and abstain in the fifth month, as I have done for so many years?”  
Zc0704 Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me:  
Zc0705 “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?  
Zc0706 And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?  
Zc0707 Were not these the words that the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and prosperous, with her cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”  
Zc0708 And the word of the LORD came to Zechariah, saying,  
Zc0709 “Thus says the LORD of hosts, Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another,  
Zc0710 do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.”  
Zc0711 But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.  
Zc0712 They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that the LORD of hosts had sent by his Spirit through the former prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of hosts.  
Zc0713 “As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear,” says the LORD of hosts,  
Zc0714 “and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. Thus the land they left was desolate, so that no one went to and fro, and the pleasant land was made desolate.”  
Zc0801 And the word of the LORD of hosts came, saying,  
Zc0802 “Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.  
Zc0803 Thus says the LORD: I have returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy mountain.  
Zc0804 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age.  
Zc0805 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.  
Zc0806 Thus says the LORD of hosts: If it is marvelous in the sight of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my sight, declares the LORD of hosts?  
Zc0807 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country and from the west country,  
Zc0808 and I will bring them to dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in faithfulness and in righteousness.”  
Zc0809 Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Let your hands be strong, you who in these days have been hearing these words from the mouth of the prophets who were present on the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.  
Zc0810 For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for beast, neither was there any safety from the foe for him who went out or came in, for I set every man against his neighbor.  
Zc0811 But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as in the former days, declares the LORD of hosts.  
Zc0812 For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.  
Zc0813 And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong.”  
Zc0814 For thus says the LORD of hosts: “As I purposed to bring disaster to you when your fathers provoked me to wrath, and I did not relent, says the LORD of hosts,  
Zc0815 so again have I purposed in these days to bring good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah; fear not.  
Zc0816 These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another; render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace;  
Zc0817 do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the LORD.”  
Zc0818 And the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,  
Zc0819 “Thus says the LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.  
Zc0820 “Thus says the LORD of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, even the inhabitants of many cities.  
Zc0821 The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the LORD and to seek the LORD of hosts; I myself am going.’  
Zc0822 Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the LORD.  
Zc0823 Thus says the LORD of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”  
Zc0901 The oracle of the word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach and Damascus is its resting place. For the LORD has an eye on mankind and on all the tribes of Israel,  
Zc0902 and on Hamath also, which borders on it, Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.  
Zc0903 Tyre has built herself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets.  
Zc0904 But behold, the Lord will strip her of her possessions and strike down her power on the sea, and she shall be devoured by fire.  
Zc0905 Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid; Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish; Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded. The king shall perish from Gaza; Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;  
Zc0906 a mixed people shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of Philistia.  
Zc0907 I will take away its blood from its mouth, and its abominations from between its teeth; it too shall be a remnant for our God; it shall be like a clan in Judah, and Ekron shall be like the Jebusites.  
Zc0908 Then I will encamp at my house as a guard, so that none shall march to and fro; no oppressor shall again march over them, for now I see with my own eyes.  
Zc0909 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.  
Zc0910 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.  
Zc0911 As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.  
Zc0912 Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.  
Zc0913 For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have made Ephraim its arrow. I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and wield you like a warrior’s sword.  
Zc0914 Then the LORD will appear over them, and his arrow will go forth like lightning; the Lord GOD will sound the trumpet and will march forth in the whirlwinds of the south.  
Zc0915 The LORD of hosts will protect them, and they shall devour, and tread down the sling stones, and they shall drink and roar as if drunk with wine, and be full like a bowl, drenched like the corners of the altar.  
Zc0916 On that day the LORD their God will save them, as the flock of his people; for like the jewels of a crown they shall shine on his land.  
Zc0917 For how great is his goodness, and how great his beauty! Grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women.  
Zc1001 Ask rain from the LORD in the season of the spring rain, from the LORD who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.  
Zc1002 For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; they tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd.  
Zc1003 “My anger is hot against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders; for the LORD of hosts cares for his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them like his majestic steed in battle.  
Zc1004 From him shall come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler—all of them together.  
Zc1005 They shall be like mighty men in battle, trampling the foe in the mud of the streets; they shall fight because the LORD is with them, and they shall put to shame the riders on horses.  
Zc1006 “I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph. I will bring them back because I have compassion on them, and they shall be as though I had not rejected them, for I am the LORD their God and I will answer them.  
Zc1007 Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior, and their hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and be glad; their hearts shall rejoice in the LORD.  
Zc1008 “I will whistle for them and gather them in, for I have redeemed them, and they shall be as many as they were before.  
Zc1009 Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and return.  
Zc1010 I will bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria, and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, till there is no room for them.  
Zc1011 He shall pass through the sea of troubles and strike down the waves of the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall be dried up. The pride of Assyria shall be laid low, and the scepter of Egypt shall depart.  
Zc1012 I will make them strong in the LORD, and they shall walk in his name,” declares the LORD.  
Zc1101 Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars!  
Zc1102 Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled!  
Zc1103 The sound of the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is ruined! The sound of the roar of the lions, for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!  
Zc1104 Thus said the LORD my God: “Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter.  
Zc1105 Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them.  
Zc1106 For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the LORD. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”  
Zc1107 So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named Favor, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep.  
Zc1108 In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.  
Zc1109 So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another.”  
Zc1110 And I took my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples.  
Zc1111 So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD.  
Zc1112 Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver.  
Zc1113 Then the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD, to the potter.  
Zc1114 Then I broke my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.  
Zc1115 Then the LORD said to me, “Take once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.  
Zc1116 For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.  
Zc1117 “Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!”  
Zc1201 The oracle of the word of the LORD concerning Israel: Thus declares the LORD, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him:  
Zc1202 “Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah.  
Zc1203 On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.  
Zc1204 On that day, declares the LORD, I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.  
Zc1205 Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through the LORD of hosts, their God.’  
Zc1206 “On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.  
Zc1207 “And the LORD will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah.  
Zc1208 On that day the LORD will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the LORD, going before them.  
Zc1209 And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.  
Zc1210 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.  
Zc1211 On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.  
Zc1212 The land shall mourn, each family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;  
Zc1213 the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves;  
Zc1214 and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves.  
Zc1301 “On that day there shall be a fountain opened for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and uncleanness.  
Zc1302 “And on that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more. And also I will remove from the land the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness.  
Zc1303 And if anyone again prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the LORD.’ And his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.  
Zc1304 “On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive,  
Zc1305 but he will say, ‘I am no prophet, I am a worker of the soil, for a man sold me in my youth.’  
Zc1306 And if one asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your back?’ he will say, ‘The wounds I received in the house of my friends.’  
Zc1307 “Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands next to me,” declares the LORD of hosts. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; I will turn my hand against the little ones.  
Zc1308 In the whole land, declares the LORD, two thirds shall be cut off and perish, and one third shall be left alive.  
Zc1309 And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The LORD is my God.’”  
Zc1401 Behold, a day is coming for the LORD, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst.  
Zc1402 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city shall go out into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.  
Zc1403 Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.  
Zc1404 On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward.  
Zc1405 And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then the LORD my God will come, and all the holy ones with him.  
Zc1406 On that day there shall be no light, cold, or frost.  
Zc1407 And there shall be a unique day, which is known to the LORD, neither day nor night, but at evening time there shall be light.  
Zc1408 On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea. It shall continue in summer as in winter.  
Zc1409 And the LORD will be king over all the earth. On that day the LORD will be one and his name one.  
Zc1410 The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.  
Zc1411 And it shall be inhabited, for there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction. Jerusalem shall dwell in security.  
Zc1412 And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.  
Zc1413 And on that day a great panic from the LORD shall fall on them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of the other.  
Zc1414 Even Judah will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations shall be collected, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance.  
Zc1415 And a plague like this plague shall fall on the horses, the mules, the camels, the donkeys, and whatever beasts may be in those camps.  
Zc1416 Then everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.  
Zc1417 And if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them.  
Zc1418 And if the family of Egypt does not go up and present themselves, then on them there shall be no rain; there shall be the plague with which the LORD afflicts the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.  
Zc1419 This shall be the punishment to Egypt and the punishment to all the nations that do not go up to keep the Feast of Booths.  
Zc1420 And on that day there shall be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “Holy to the LORD.” And the pots in the house of the LORD shall be as the bowls before the altar.  
Zc1421 And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holy to the LORD of hosts, so that all who sacrifice may come and take of them and boil the meat of the sacrifice in them. And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the LORD of hosts on that day.  
Ma0101 The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.  
Ma0102 “I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet I have loved Jacob  
Ma0103 but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”  
Ma0104 If Edom says, “We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,” the LORD of hosts says, “They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called ‘the wicked country,’ and ‘the people with whom the LORD is angry forever.’”  
Ma0105 Your own eyes shall see this, and you shall say, “Great is the LORD beyond the border of Israel!”  
Ma0106 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’  
Ma0107 By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying that the LORD’s table may be despised.  
Ma0108 When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favor? says the LORD of hosts.  
Ma0109 And now entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With such a gift from your hand, will he show favor to any of you? says the LORD of hosts.  
Ma0110 Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hand.  
Ma0111 For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.  
Ma0112 But you profane it when you say that the Lord’s table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised.  
Ma0113 But you say, ‘What a weariness this is,’ and you snort at it, says the LORD of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the LORD.  
Ma0114 Cursed be the cheat who has a male in his flock, and vows it, and yet sacrifices to the Lord what is blemished. For I am a great King, says the LORD of hosts, and my name will be feared among the nations.  
Ma0201 “And now, O priests, this command is for you.  
Ma0202 If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.  
Ma0203 Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it.  
Ma0204 So shall you know that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may stand, says the LORD of hosts.  
Ma0205 My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name.  
Ma0206 True instruction was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.  
Ma0207 For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.  
Ma0208 But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts,  
Ma0209 and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction.”  
Ma0210 Have we not all one Father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our fathers?  
Ma0211 Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the LORD, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.  
Ma0212 May the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob any descendant of the man who does this, who brings an offering to the LORD of hosts!  
Ma0213 And this second thing you do. You cover the LORD’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand.  
Ma0214 But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the LORD was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.  
Ma0215 Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.  
Ma0216 “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”  
Ma0217 You have wearied the LORD with your words. But you say, “How have we wearied him?” By saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God of justice?”  
Ma0301 “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts.  
Ma0302 But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.  
Ma0303 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the LORD.  
Ma0304 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.  
Ma0305 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.  
Ma0306 “For I the LORD do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.  
Ma0307 From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you say, ‘How shall we return?’  
Ma0308 Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions.  
Ma0309 You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you.  
Ma0310 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.  
Ma0311 I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the LORD of hosts.  
Ma0312 Then all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight, says the LORD of hosts.  
Ma0313 “Your words have been hard against me, says the LORD. But you say, ‘How have we spoken against you?’  
Ma0314 You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the LORD of hosts?  
Ma0315 And now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper but they put God to the test and they escape.’”  
Ma0316 Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed his name.  
Ma0317 “They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.  
Ma0318 Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.  
Ma0401 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.  
Ma0402 But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.  
Ma0403 And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the LORD of hosts.  
Ma0404 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.  
Ma0405 “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.  
Ma0406 And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”  
Mt0101 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.  
Mt0102 Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,  
Mt0103 and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram,  
Mt0104 and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon,  
Mt0105 and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse,  
Mt0106 and Jesse the father of David the king. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah,  
Mt0107 and Solomon the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asaph,  
Mt0108 and Asaph the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah,  
Mt0109 and Uzziah the father of Jotham, and Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah,  
Mt0110 and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos, and Amos the father of Josiah,  
Mt0111 and Josiah the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon.  
Mt0112 And after the deportation to Babylon: Jechoniah was the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,  
Mt0113 and Zerubbabel the father of Abiud, and Abiud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor,  
Mt0114 and Azor the father of Zadok, and Zadok the father of Achim, and Achim the father of Eliud,  
Mt0115 and Eliud the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob,  
Mt0116 and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.  
Mt0117 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.  
Mt0118 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.  
Mt0119 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.  
Mt0120 But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.  
Mt0121 She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”  
Mt0122 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:  
Mt0123 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).  
Mt0124 When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife,  
Mt0125 but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.  
Mt0201 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem,  
Mt0202 saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”  
Mt0203 When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him;  
Mt0204 and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born.  
Mt0205 They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet:  
Mt0206 “‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.’”  
Mt0207 Then Herod summoned the wise men secretly and ascertained from them what time the star had appeared.  
Mt0208 And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship him.”  
Mt0209 After listening to the king, they went on their way. And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was.  
Mt0210 When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.  
Mt0211 And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.  
Mt0212 And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.  
Mt0213 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.”  
Mt0214 And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt  
Mt0215 and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”  
Mt0216 Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.  
Mt0217 Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:  
Mt0218 “A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be comforted, because they are no more.”  
Mt0219 But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,  
Mt0220 saying, “Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child’s life are dead.”  
Mt0221 And he rose and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel.  
Mt0222 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee.  
Mt0223 And he went and lived in a city called Nazareth, so that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, that he would be called a Nazarene.  
Mt0301 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea,  
Mt0302 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”  
Mt0303 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.’”  
Mt0304 Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.  
Mt0305 Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him,  
Mt0306 and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.  
Mt0307 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?  
Mt0308 Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.  
Mt0309 And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.  
Mt0310 Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.  
Mt0311 “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.  
Mt0312 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”  
Mt0313 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.  
Mt0314 John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”  
Mt0315 But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented.  
Mt0316 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;  
Mt0317 and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”  
Mt0401 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.  
Mt0402 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.  
Mt0403 And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”  
Mt0404 But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”  
Mt0405 Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple  
Mt0406 and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, “‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and “‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”  
Mt0407 Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”  
Mt0408 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.  
Mt0409 And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.”  
Mt0410 Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”  
Mt0411 Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to him.  
Mt0412 Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee.  
Mt0413 And leaving Nazareth he went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali,  
Mt0414 so that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:  
Mt0415 “The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—  
Mt0416 the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned.”  
Mt0417 From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”  
Mt0418 While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.  
Mt0419 And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”  
Mt0420 Immediately they left their nets and followed him.  
Mt0421 And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them.  
Mt0422 Immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.  
Mt0423 And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.  
Mt0424 So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them.  
Mt0425 And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.  
Mt0501 Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.  
Mt0502 And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:  
Mt0503 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.  
Mt0504 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.  
Mt0505 “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.  
Mt0506 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.  
Mt0507 “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.  
Mt0508 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.  
Mt0509 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.  
Mt0510 “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.  
Mt0511 “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.  
Mt0512 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.  
Mt0513 “You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.  
Mt0514 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.  
Mt0515 Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.  
Mt0516 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.  
Mt0517 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.  
Mt0518 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.  
Mt0519 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.  
Mt0520 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.  
Mt0521 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’  
Mt0522 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.  
Mt0523 So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,  
Mt0524 leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.  
Mt0525 Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.  
Mt0526 Truly, I say to you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny.  
Mt0527 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’  
Mt0528 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.  
Mt0529 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.  
Mt0530 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.  
Mt0531 “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’  
Mt0532 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.  
Mt0533 “Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’  
Mt0534 But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God,  
Mt0535 or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.  
Mt0536 And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.  
Mt0537 Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.  
Mt0538 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’  
Mt0539 But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.  
Mt0540 And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well.  
Mt0541 And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.  
Mt0542 Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.  
Mt0543 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’  
Mt0544 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,  
Mt0545 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.  
Mt0546 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?  
Mt0547 And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?  
Mt0548 You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.  
Mt0601 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.  
Mt0602 “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.  
Mt0603 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,  
Mt0604 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.  
Mt0605 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.  
Mt0606 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.  
Mt0607 “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.  
Mt0608 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.  
Mt0609 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.  
Mt0610 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.  
Mt0611 Give us this day our daily bread,  
Mt0612 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.  
Mt0613 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.  
Mt0614 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,  
Mt0615 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.  
Mt0616 “And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.  
Mt0617 But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,  
Mt0618 that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.  
Mt0619 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,  
Mt0620 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.  
Mt0621 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.  
Mt0622 “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,  
Mt0623 but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!  
Mt0624 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.  
Mt0625 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?  
Mt0626 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?  
Mt0627 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?  
Mt0628 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,  
Mt0629 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  
Mt0630 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?  
Mt0631 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’  
Mt0632 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.  
Mt0633 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.  
Mt0634 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.  
Mt0701 “Judge not, that you be not judged.  
Mt0702 For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.  
Mt0703 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?  
Mt0704 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye?  
Mt0705 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.  
Mt0706 “Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.  
Mt0707 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.  
Mt0708 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.  
Mt0709 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?  
Mt0710 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?  
Mt0711 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!  
Mt0712 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.  
Mt0713 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.  
Mt0714 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.  
Mt0715 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.  
Mt0716 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?  
Mt0717 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.  
Mt0718 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.  
Mt0719 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.  
Mt0720 Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.  
Mt0721 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.  
Mt0722 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’  
Mt0723 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’  
Mt0724 “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.  
Mt0725 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.  
Mt0726 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.  
Mt0727 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”  
Mt0728 And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching,  
Mt0729 for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.  
Mt0801 When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him.  
Mt0802 And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.”  
Mt0803 And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.  
Mt0804 And Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them.”  
Mt0805 When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him,  
Mt0806 “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.”  
Mt0807 And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.”  
Mt0808 But the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed.  
Mt0809 For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”  
Mt0810 When Jesus heard this, he marveled and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith.  
Mt0811 I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,  
Mt0812 while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”  
Mt0813 And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment.  
Mt0814 And when Jesus entered Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever.  
Mt0815 He touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she rose and began to serve him.  
Mt0816 That evening they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick.  
Mt0817 This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.”  
Mt0818 Now when Jesus saw a crowd around him, he gave orders to go over to the other side.  
Mt0819 And a scribe came up and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”  
Mt0820 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”  
Mt0821 Another of the disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”  
Mt0822 And Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”  
Mt0823 And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him.  
Mt0824 And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep.  
Mt0825 And they went and woke him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing.”  
Mt0826 And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.  
Mt0827 And the men marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?”  
Mt0828 And when he came to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men met him, coming out of the tombs, so fierce that no one could pass that way.  
Mt0829 And behold, they cried out, “What have you to do with us, O Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”  
Mt0830 Now a herd of many pigs was feeding at some distance from them.  
Mt0831 And the demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs.”  
Mt0832 And he said to them, “Go.” So they came out and went into the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters.  
Mt0833 The herdsmen fled, and going into the city they told everything, especially what had happened to the demon-possessed men.  
Mt0834 And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their region.  
Mt0901 And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city.  
Mt0902 And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.”  
Mt0903 And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.”  
Mt0904 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?  
Mt0905 For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’?  
Mt0906 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he then said to the paralytic— “Rise, pick up your bed and go home.”  
Mt0907 And he rose and went home.  
Mt0908 When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men.  
Mt0909 As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.  
Mt0910 And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples.  
Mt0911 And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”  
Mt0912 But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.  
Mt0913 Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”  
Mt0914 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”  
Mt0915 And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.  
Mt0916 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made.  
Mt0917 Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”  
Mt0918 While he was saying these things to them, behold, a ruler came in and knelt before him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”  
Mt0919 And Jesus rose and followed him, with his disciples.  
Mt0920 And behold, a woman who had suffered from a discharge of blood for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment,  
Mt0921 for she said to herself, “If I only touch his garment, I will be made well.”  
Mt0922 Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And instantly the woman was made well.  
Mt0923 And when Jesus came to the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion,  
Mt0924 he said, “Go away, for the girl is not dead but sleeping.” And they laughed at him.  
Mt0925 But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose.  
Mt0926 And the report of this went through all that district.  
Mt0927 And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, “Have mercy on us, Son of David.”  
Mt0928 When he entered the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.”  
Mt0929 Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”  
Mt0930 And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, “See that no one knows about it.”  
Mt0931 But they went away and spread his fame through all that district.  
Mt0932 As they were going away, behold, a demon-oppressed man who was mute was brought to him.  
Mt0933 And when the demon had been cast out, the mute man spoke. And the crowds marveled, saying, “Never was anything like this seen in Israel.”  
Mt0934 But the Pharisees said, “He casts out demons by the prince of demons.”  
Mt0935 And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction.  
Mt0936 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.  
Mt0937 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;  
Mt0938 therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”  
Mt1001 And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.  
Mt1002 The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;  
Mt1003 Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;  
Mt1004 Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.  
Mt1005 These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans,  
Mt1006 but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.  
Mt1007 And proclaim as you go, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’  
Mt1008 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.  
Mt1009 Acquire no gold or silver or copper for your belts,  
Mt1010 no bag for your journey, or two tunics or sandals or a staff, for the laborer deserves his food.  
Mt1011 And whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it and stay there until you depart.  
Mt1012 As you enter the house, greet it.  
Mt1013 And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.  
Mt1014 And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town.  
Mt1015 Truly, I say to you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.  
Mt1016 “Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.  
Mt1017 Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues,  
Mt1018 and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles.  
Mt1019 When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour.  
Mt1020 For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.  
Mt1021 Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,  
Mt1022 and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.  
Mt1023 When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.  
Mt1024 “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.  
Mt1025 It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household.  
Mt1026 “So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.  
Mt1027 What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.  
Mt1028 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.  
Mt1029 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.  
Mt1030 But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.  
Mt1031 Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.  
Mt1032 So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven,  
Mt1033 but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.  
Mt1034 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.  
Mt1035 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.  
Mt1036 And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household.  
Mt1037 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.  
Mt1038 And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.  
Mt1039 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.  
Mt1040 “Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me.  
Mt1041 The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward.  
Mt1042 And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”  
Mt1101 When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their cities.  
Mt1102 Now when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples  
Mt1103 and said to him, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?”  
Mt1104 And Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John what you hear and see:  
Mt1105 the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.  
Mt1106 And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.”  
Mt1107 As they went away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?  
Mt1108 What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.  
Mt1109 What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.  
Mt1110 This is he of whom it is written, “‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’  
Mt1111 Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.  
Mt1112 From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by force.  
Mt1113 For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John,  
Mt1114 and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come.  
Mt1115 He who has ears to hear, let him hear.  
Mt1116 “But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates,  
Mt1117 “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’  
Mt1118 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’  
Mt1119 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”  
Mt1120 Then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent.  
Mt1121 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.  
Mt1122 But I tell you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.  
Mt1123 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.  
Mt1124 But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you.”  
Mt1125 At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;  
Mt1126 yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.  
Mt1127 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.  
Mt1128 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.  
Mt1129 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  
Mt1130 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”  
Mt1201 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.  
Mt1202 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”  
Mt1203 He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him:  
Mt1204 how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?  
Mt1205 Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?  
Mt1206 I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.  
Mt1207 And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.  
Mt1208 For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”  
Mt1209 He went on from there and entered their synagogue.  
Mt1210 And a man was there with a withered hand. And they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might accuse him.  
Mt1211 He said to them, “Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?  
Mt1212 Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”  
Mt1213 Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other.  
Mt1214 But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.  
Mt1215 Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all  
Mt1216 and ordered them not to make him known.  
Mt1217 This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:  
Mt1218 “Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.  
Mt1219 He will not quarrel or cry aloud, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets;  
Mt1220 a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory;  
Mt1221 and in his name the Gentiles will hope.”  
Mt1222 Then a demon-oppressed man who was blind and mute was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the man spoke and saw.  
Mt1223 And all the people were amazed, and said, “Can this be the Son of David?”  
Mt1224 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons.”  
Mt1225 Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.  
Mt1226 And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?  
Mt1227 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.  
Mt1228 But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.  
Mt1229 Or how can someone enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house.  
Mt1230 Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.  
Mt1231 Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.  
Mt1232 And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.  
Mt1233 “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit.  
Mt1234 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.  
Mt1235 The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.  
Mt1236 I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,  
Mt1237 for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”  
Mt1238 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.”  
Mt1239 But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.  
Mt1240 For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.  
Mt1241 The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.  
Mt1242 The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.  
Mt1243 “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none.  
Mt1244 Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order.  
Mt1245 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.”  
Mt1246 While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him.  
Mt1247   
Mt1248 But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?”  
Mt1249 And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!  
Mt1250 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”  
Mt1301 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea.  
Mt1302 And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach.  
Mt1303 And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow.  
Mt1304 And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.  
Mt1305 Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil,  
Mt1306 but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away.  
Mt1307 Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them.  
Mt1308 Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.  
Mt1309 He who has ears, let him hear.”  
Mt1310 Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”  
Mt1311 And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.  
Mt1312 For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.  
Mt1313 This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.  
Mt1314 Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: “‘“You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.”  
Mt1315 For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’  
Mt1316 But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.  
Mt1317 For truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.  
Mt1318 “Hear then the parable of the sower:  
Mt1319 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.  
Mt1320 As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,  
Mt1321 yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away.  
Mt1322 As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.  
Mt1323 As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”  
Mt1324 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field,  
Mt1325 but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away.  
Mt1326 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also.  
Mt1327 And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?’  
Mt1328 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ So the servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’  
Mt1329 But he said, ‘No, lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them.  
Mt1330 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”  
Mt1331 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.  
Mt1332 It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”  
Mt1333 He told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.”  
Mt1334 All these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without a parable.  
Mt1335 This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.”  
Mt1336 Then he left the crowds and went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds of the field.”  
Mt1337 He answered, “The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.  
Mt1338 The field is the world, and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,  
Mt1339 and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.  
Mt1340 Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the end of the age.  
Mt1341 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers,  
Mt1342 and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.  
Mt1343 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.  
Mt1344 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.  
Mt1345 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls,  
Mt1346 who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it.  
Mt1347 “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind.  
Mt1348 When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad.  
Mt1349 So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous  
Mt1350 and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.  
Mt1351 “Have you understood all these things?” They said to him, “Yes.”  
Mt1352 And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”  
Mt1353 And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there,  
Mt1354 and coming to his hometown he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works?  
Mt1355 Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?  
Mt1356 And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?”  
Mt1357 And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”  
Mt1358 And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.  
Mt1401 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard about the fame of Jesus,  
Mt1402 and he said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead; that is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.”  
Mt1403 For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,  
Mt1404 because John had been saying to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.”  
Mt1405 And though he wanted to put him to death, he feared the people, because they held him to be a prophet.  
Mt1406 But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and pleased Herod,  
Mt1407 so that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask.  
Mt1408 Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.”  
Mt1409 And the king was sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he commanded it to be given.  
Mt1410 He sent and had John beheaded in the prison,  
Mt1411 and his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.  
Mt1412 And his disciples came and took the body and buried it, and they went and told Jesus.  
Mt1413 Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a desolate place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns.  
Mt1414 When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.  
Mt1415 Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”  
Mt1416 But Jesus said, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.”  
Mt1417 They said to him, “We have only five loaves here and two fish.”  
Mt1418 And he said, “Bring them here to me.”  
Mt1419 Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.  
Mt1420 And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces left over.  
Mt1421 And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.  
Mt1422 Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds.  
Mt1423 And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone,  
Mt1424 but the boat by this time was a long way from the land, beaten by the waves, for the wind was against them.  
Mt1425 And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea.  
Mt1426 But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, “It is a ghost!” and they cried out in fear.  
Mt1427 But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid.”  
Mt1428 And Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.”  
Mt1429 He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus.  
Mt1430 But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.”  
Mt1431 Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”  
Mt1432 And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased.  
Mt1433 And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”  
Mt1434 And when they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.  
Mt1435 And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent around to all that region and brought to him all who were sick  
Mt1436 and implored him that they might only touch the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made well.  
Mt1501 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,  
Mt1502 “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.”  
Mt1503 He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?  
Mt1504 For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’  
Mt1505 But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,”  
Mt1506 he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.  
Mt1507 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:  
Mt1508 “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;  
Mt1509 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”  
Mt1510 And he called the people to him and said to them, “Hear and understand:  
Mt1511 it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.”  
Mt1512 Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”  
Mt1513 He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.  
Mt1514 Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”  
Mt1515 But Peter said to him, “Explain the parable to us.”  
Mt1516 And he said, “Are you also still without understanding?  
Mt1517 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?  
Mt1518 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.  
Mt1519 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.  
Mt1520 These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”  
Mt1521 And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.  
Mt1522 And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.”  
Mt1523 But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.”  
Mt1524 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”  
Mt1525 But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.”  
Mt1526 And he answered, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”  
Mt1527 She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”  
Mt1528 Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly.  
Mt1529 Jesus went on from there and walked beside the Sea of Galilee. And he went up on the mountain and sat down there.  
Mt1530 And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them,  
Mt1531 so that the crowd wondered, when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel.  
Mt1532 Then Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion on the crowd because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.”  
Mt1533 And the disciples said to him, “Where are we to get enough bread in such a desolate place to feed so great a crowd?”  
Mt1534 And Jesus said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”  
Mt1535 And directing the crowd to sit down on the ground,  
Mt1536 he took the seven loaves and the fish, and having given thanks he broke them and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.  
Mt1537 And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces left over.  
Mt1538 Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.  
Mt1539 And after sending away the crowds, he got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan.  
Mt1601 And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.  
Mt1602 He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’  
Mt1603 And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.  
Mt1604 An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed.  
Mt1605 When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread.  
Mt1606 Jesus said to them, “Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”  
Mt1607 And they began discussing it among themselves, saying, “We brought no bread.”  
Mt1608 But Jesus, aware of this, said, “O you of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread?  
Mt1609 Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?  
Mt1610 Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?  
Mt1611 How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”  
Mt1612 Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.  
Mt1613 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”  
Mt1614 And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”  
Mt1615 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”  
Mt1616 Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”  
Mt1617 And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.  
Mt1618 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.  
Mt1619 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”  
Mt1620 Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ.  
Mt1621 From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.  
Mt1622 And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you.”  
Mt1623 But he turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”  
Mt1624 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.  
Mt1625 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.  
Mt1626 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?  
Mt1627 For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.  
Mt1628 Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”  
Mt1701 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.  
Mt1702 And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.  
Mt1703 And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him.  
Mt1704 And Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.”  
Mt1705 He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”  
Mt1706 When the disciples heard this, they fell on their faces and were terrified.  
Mt1707 But Jesus came and touched them, saying, “Rise, and have no fear.”  
Mt1708 And when they lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only.  
Mt1709 And as they were coming down the mountain, Jesus commanded them, “Tell no one the vision, until the Son of Man is raised from the dead.”  
Mt1710 And the disciples asked him, “Then why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?”  
Mt1711 He answered, “Elijah does come, and he will restore all things.  
Mt1712 But I tell you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but did to him whatever they pleased. So also the Son of Man will certainly suffer at their hands.”  
Mt1713 Then the disciples understood that he was speaking to them of John the Baptist.  
Mt1714 And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and, kneeling before him,  
Mt1715 said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he has seizures and he suffers terribly. For often he falls into the fire, and often into the water.  
Mt1716 And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.”  
Mt1717 And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.”  
Mt1718 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed instantly.  
Mt1719 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”  
Mt1720 He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”  
Mt1721  
Mt1722 As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men,  
Mt1723 and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day.” And they were greatly distressed.  
Mt1724 When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the tax?”  
Mt1725 He said, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tax? From their sons or from others?”  
Mt1726 And when he said, “From others,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free.  
Mt1727 However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.”  
Mt1801 At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”  
Mt1802 And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them  
Mt1803 and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.  
Mt1804 Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.  
Mt1805 “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me,  
Mt1806 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.  
Mt1807 “Woe to the world for temptations to sin! For it is necessary that temptations come, but woe to the one by whom the temptation comes!  
Mt1808 And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.  
Mt1809 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.  
Mt1810 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.  
Mt1811  
Mt1812 What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?  
Mt1813 And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.  
Mt1814 So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.  
Mt1815 “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.  
Mt1816 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.  
Mt1817 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.  
Mt1818 Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.  
Mt1819 Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.  
Mt1820 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”  
Mt1821 Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”  
Mt1822 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.  
Mt1823 “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants.  
Mt1824 When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.  
Mt1825 And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.  
Mt1826 So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’  
Mt1827 And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt.  
Mt1828 But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay what you owe.’  
Mt1829 So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you.’  
Mt1830 He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt.  
Mt1831 When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their master all that had taken place.  
Mt1832 Then his master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me.  
Mt1833 And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’  
Mt1834 And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers, until he should pay all his debt.  
Mt1835 So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.”  
Mt1901 Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.  
Mt1902 And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.  
Mt1903 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?”  
Mt1904 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,  
Mt1905 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?  
Mt1906 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”  
Mt1907 They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?”  
Mt1908 He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.  
Mt1909 And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”  
Mt1910 The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”  
Mt1911 But he said to them, “Not everyone can receive this saying, but only those to whom it is given.  
Mt1912 For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.”  
Mt1913 Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people,  
Mt1914 but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”  
Mt1915 And he laid his hands on them and went away.  
Mt1916 And behold, a man came up to him, saying, “Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?”  
Mt1917 And he said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments.”  
Mt1918 He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,  
Mt1919 Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”  
Mt1920 The young man said to him, “All these I have kept. What do I still lack?”  
Mt1921 Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”  
Mt1922 When the young man heard this he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.  
Mt1923 And Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly, I say to you, only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven.  
Mt1924 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”  
Mt1925 When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”  
Mt1926 But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”  
Mt1927 Then Peter said in reply, “See, we have left everything and followed you. What then will we have?”  
Mt1928 Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.  
Mt1929 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.  
Mt1930 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.  
Mt2001 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.  
Mt2002 After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.  
Mt2003 And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,  
Mt2004 and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’  
Mt2005 So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same.  
Mt2006 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’  
Mt2007 They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’  
Mt2008 And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’  
Mt2009 And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius.  
Mt2010 Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius.  
Mt2011 And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house,  
Mt2012 saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’  
Mt2013 But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?  
Mt2014 Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you.  
Mt2015 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’  
Mt2016 So the last will be first, and the first last.”  
Mt2017 And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,  
Mt2018 “See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death  
Mt2019 and deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day.”  
Mt2020 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something.  
Mt2021 And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Say that these two sons of mine are to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.”  
Mt2022 Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.”  
Mt2023 He said to them, “You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”  
Mt2024 And when the ten heard it, they were indignant at the two brothers.  
Mt2025 But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.  
Mt2026 It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,  
Mt2027 and whoever would be first among you must be your slave,  
Mt2028 even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”  
Mt2029 And as they went out of Jericho, a great crowd followed him.  
Mt2030 And behold, there were two blind men sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”  
Mt2031 The crowd rebuked them, telling them to be silent, but they cried out all the more, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”  
Mt2032 And stopping, Jesus called them and said, “What do you want me to do for you?”  
Mt2033 They said to him, “Lord, let our eyes be opened.”  
Mt2034 And Jesus in pity touched their eyes, and immediately they recovered their sight and followed him.  
Mt2101 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,  
Mt2102 saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me.  
Mt2103 If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.”  
Mt2104 This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying,  
Mt2105 “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’”  
Mt2106 The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them.  
Mt2107 They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them.  
Mt2108 Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.  
Mt2109 And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”  
Mt2110 And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, “Who is this?”  
Mt2111 And the crowds said, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”  
Mt2112 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.  
Mt2113 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”  
Mt2114 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.  
Mt2115 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant,  
Mt2116 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”  
Mt2117 And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there.  
Mt2118 In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry.  
Mt2119 And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.  
Mt2120 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once?”  
Mt2121 And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.  
Mt2122 And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”  
Mt2123 And when he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”  
Mt2124 Jesus answered them, “I also will ask you one question, and if you tell me the answer, then I also will tell you by what authority I do these things.  
Mt2125 The baptism of John, from where did it come? From heaven or from man?” And they discussed it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’  
Mt2126 But if we say, ‘From man,’ we are afraid of the crowd, for they all hold that John was a prophet.”  
Mt2127 So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.  
Mt2128 “What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’  
Mt2129 And he answered, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he changed his mind and went.  
Mt2130 And he went to the other son and said the same. And he answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but did not go.  
Mt2131 Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you.  
Mt2132 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.  
Mt2133 “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.  
Mt2134 When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit.  
Mt2135 And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another.  
Mt2136 Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them.  
Mt2137 Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’  
Mt2138 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’  
Mt2139 And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.  
Mt2140 When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”  
Mt2141 They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”  
Mt2142 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?  
Mt2143 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits.  
Mt2144 And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”  
Mt2145 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them.  
Mt2146 And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet.  
Mt2201 And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying,  
Mt2202 “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son,  
Mt2203 and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.  
Mt2204 Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’  
Mt2205 But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business,  
Mt2206 while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them.  
Mt2207 The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.  
Mt2208 Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy.  
Mt2209 Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.’  
Mt2210 And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.  
Mt2211 “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment.  
Mt2212 And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.  
Mt2213 Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’  
Mt2214 For many are called, but few are chosen.”  
Mt2215 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words.  
Mt2216 And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone’s opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances.  
Mt2217 Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”  
Mt2218 But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why put me to the test, you hypocrites?  
Mt2219 Show me the coin for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius.  
Mt2220 And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?”  
Mt2221 They said, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”  
Mt2222 When they heard it, they marveled. And they left him and went away.  
Mt2223 The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question,  
Mt2224 saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.’  
Mt2225 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no offspring left his wife to his brother.  
Mt2226 So too the second and third, down to the seventh.  
Mt2227 After them all, the woman died.  
Mt2228 In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her.”  
Mt2229 But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.  
Mt2230 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.  
Mt2231 And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God:  
Mt2232 ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”  
Mt2233 And when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at his teaching.  
Mt2234 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.  
Mt2235 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him.  
Mt2236 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”  
Mt2237 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  
Mt2238 This is the great and first commandment.  
Mt2239 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.  
Mt2240 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”  
Mt2241 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,  
Mt2242 saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.”  
Mt2243 He said to them, “How is it then that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,  
Mt2244 “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet”’?  
Mt2245 If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?”  
Mt2246 And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.  
Mt2301 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,  
Mt2302 “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat,  
Mt2303 so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.  
Mt2304 They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.  
Mt2305 They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long,  
Mt2306 and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues  
Mt2307 and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others.  
Mt2308 But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.  
Mt2309 And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.  
Mt2310 Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ.  
Mt2311 The greatest among you shall be your servant.  
Mt2312 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.  
Mt2313 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.  
Mt2314  
Mt2315 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.  
Mt2316 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’  
Mt2317 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?  
Mt2318 And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.’  
Mt2319 You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?  
Mt2320 So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.  
Mt2321 And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it.  
Mt2322 And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it.  
Mt2323 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.  
Mt2324 You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!  
Mt2325 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.  
Mt2326 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.  
Mt2327 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness.  
Mt2328 So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.  
Mt2329 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,  
Mt2330 saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’  
Mt2331 Thus you witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.  
Mt2332 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.  
Mt2333 You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?  
Mt2334 Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,  
Mt2335 so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.  
Mt2336 Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.  
Mt2337 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!  
Mt2338 See, your house is left to you desolate.  
Mt2339 For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”  
Mt2401 Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple.  
Mt2402 But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”  
Mt2403 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”  
Mt2404 And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray.  
Mt2405 For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray.  
Mt2406 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.  
Mt2407 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.  
Mt2408 All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.  
Mt2409 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.  
Mt2410 And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.  
Mt2411 And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.  
Mt2412 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.  
Mt2413 But the one who endures to the end will be saved.  
Mt2414 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.  
Mt2415 “So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),  
Mt2416 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.  
Mt2417 Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house,  
Mt2418 and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak.  
Mt2419 And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!  
Mt2420 Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.  
Mt2421 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.  
Mt2422 And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.  
Mt2423 Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it.  
Mt2424 For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.  
Mt2425 See, I have told you beforehand.  
Mt2426 So, if they say to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.  
Mt2427 For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.  
Mt2428 Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.  
Mt2429 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.  
Mt2430 Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.  
Mt2431 And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.  
Mt2432 “From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.  
Mt2433 So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates.  
Mt2434 Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.  
Mt2435 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.  
Mt2436 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.  
Mt2437 For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.  
Mt2438 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,  
Mt2439 and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.  
Mt2440 Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left.  
Mt2441 Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left.  
Mt2442 Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.  
Mt2443 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.  
Mt2444 Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.  
Mt2445 “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?  
Mt2446 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.  
Mt2447 Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions.  
Mt2448 But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’  
Mt2449 and begins to beat his fellow servants and eats and drinks with drunkards,  
Mt2450 the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know  
Mt2451 and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.  
Mt2501 “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.  
Mt2502 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.  
Mt2503 For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,  
Mt2504 but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.  
Mt2505 As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept.  
Mt2506 But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’  
Mt2507 Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps.  
Mt2508 And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’  
Mt2509 But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’  
Mt2510 And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.  
Mt2511 Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’  
Mt2512 But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’  
Mt2513 Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.  
Mt2514 “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.  
Mt2515 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.  
Mt2516 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.  
Mt2517 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.  
Mt2518 But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money.  
Mt2519 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.  
Mt2520 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’  
Mt2521 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’  
Mt2522 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’  
Mt2523 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’  
Mt2524 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed,  
Mt2525 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’  
Mt2526 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?  
Mt2527 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.  
Mt2528 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.  
Mt2529 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.  
Mt2530 And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’  
Mt2531 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.  
Mt2532 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.  
Mt2533 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.  
Mt2534 Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.  
Mt2535 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,  
Mt2536 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’  
Mt2537 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?  
Mt2538 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?  
Mt2539 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’  
Mt2540 And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’  
Mt2541 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.  
Mt2542 For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink,  
Mt2543 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’  
Mt2544 Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’  
Mt2545 Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’  
Mt2546 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”  
Mt2601 When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples,  
Mt2602 “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”  
Mt2603 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people gathered in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas,  
Mt2604 and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.  
Mt2605 But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.”  
Mt2606 Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,  
Mt2607 a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table.  
Mt2608 And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?  
Mt2609 For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.”  
Mt2610 But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.  
Mt2611 For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.  
Mt2612 In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.  
Mt2613 Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”  
Mt2614 Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests  
Mt2615 and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.  
Mt2616 And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.  
Mt2617 Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?”  
Mt2618 He said, “Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.’”  
Mt2619 And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover.  
Mt2620 When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve.  
Mt2621 And as they were eating, he said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”  
Mt2622 And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, “Is it I, Lord?”  
Mt2623 He answered, “He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me.  
Mt2624 The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”  
Mt2625 Judas, who would betray him, answered, “Is it I, Rabbi?” He said to him, “You have said so.”  
Mt2626 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”  
Mt2627 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you,  
Mt2628 for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.  
Mt2629 I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.”  
Mt2630 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.  
Mt2631 Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’  
Mt2632 But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.”  
Mt2633 Peter answered him, “Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.”  
Mt2634 Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”  
Mt2635 Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!” And all the disciples said the same.  
Mt2636 Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go over there and pray.”  
Mt2637 And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled.  
Mt2638 Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.”  
Mt2639 And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”  
Mt2640 And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, “So, could you not watch with me one hour?  
Mt2641 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”  
Mt2642 Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”  
Mt2643 And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.  
Mt2644 So, leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again.  
Mt2645 Then he came to the disciples and said to them, “Sleep and take your rest later on. See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.  
Mt2646 Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”  
Mt2647 While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people.  
Mt2648 Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man; seize him.”  
Mt2649 And he came up to Jesus at once and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” And he kissed him.  
Mt2650 Jesus said to him, “Friend, do what you came to do.” Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him.  
Mt2651 And behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear.  
Mt2652 Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.  
Mt2653 Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?  
Mt2654 But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”  
Mt2655 At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me.  
Mt2656 But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.  
Mt2657 Then those who had seized Jesus led him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered.  
Mt2658 And Peter was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and going inside he sat with the guards to see the end.  
Mt2659 Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death,  
Mt2660 but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward  
Mt2661 and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days.’”  
Mt2662 And the high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?”  
Mt2663 But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, “I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.”  
Mt2664 Jesus said to him, “You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”  
Mt2665 Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has uttered blasphemy. What further witnesses do we need? You have now heard his blasphemy.  
Mt2666 What is your judgment?” They answered, “He deserves death.”  
Mt2667 Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him,  
Mt2668 saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it that struck you?”  
Mt2669 Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.”  
Mt2670 But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you mean.”  
Mt2671 And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”  
Mt2672 And again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man.”  
Mt2673 After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you.”  
Mt2674 Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the rooster crowed.  
Mt2675 And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.  
Mt2701 When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.  
Mt2702 And they bound him and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate the governor.  
Mt2703 Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,  
Mt2704 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.”  
Mt2705 And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.  
Mt2706 But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money.”  
Mt2707 So they took counsel and bought with them the potter’s field as a burial place for strangers.  
Mt2708 Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.  
Mt2709 Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel,  
Mt2710 and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me.”  
Mt2711 Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said, “You have said so.”  
Mt2712 But when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he gave no answer.  
Mt2713 Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?”  
Mt2714 But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed.  
Mt2715 Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted.  
Mt2716 And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.  
Mt2717 So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?”  
Mt2718 For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up.  
Mt2719 Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.”  
Mt2720 Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.  
Mt2721 The governor again said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas.”  
Mt2722 Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!”  
Mt2723 And he said, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!”  
Mt2724 So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves.”  
Mt2725 And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”  
Mt2726 Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.  
Mt2727 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor’s headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him.  
Mt2728 And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him,  
Mt2729 and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”  
Mt2730 And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head.  
Mt2731 And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him.  
Mt2732 As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross.  
Mt2733 And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull),  
Mt2734 they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it.  
Mt2735 And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots.  
Mt2736 Then they sat down and kept watch over him there.  
Mt2737 And over his head they put the charge against him, which read, “This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.”  
Mt2738 Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left.  
Mt2739 And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads  
Mt2740 and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.”  
Mt2741 So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying,  
Mt2742 “He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.  
Mt2743 He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”  
Mt2744 And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way.  
Mt2745 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.  
Mt2746 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”  
Mt2747 And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.”  
Mt2748 And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink.  
Mt2749 But the others said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.”  
Mt2750 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.  
Mt2751 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.  
Mt2752 The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,  
Mt2753 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.  
Mt2754 When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”  
Mt2755 There were also many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him,  
Mt2756 among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.  
Mt2757 When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus.  
Mt2758 He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.  
Mt2759 And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud  
Mt2760 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away.  
Mt2761 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.  
Mt2762 The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate  
Mt2763 and said, “Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, ‘After three days I will rise.’  
Mt2764 Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last fraud will be worse than the first.”  
Mt2765 Pilate said to them, “You have a guard of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you can.”  
Mt2766 So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard.  
Mt2801 Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.  
Mt2802 And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it.  
Mt2803 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.  
Mt2804 And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men.  
Mt2805 But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.  
Mt2806 He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay.  
Mt2807 Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him. See, I have told you.”  
Mt2808 So they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples.  
Mt2809 And behold, Jesus met them and said, “Greetings!” And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him.  
Mt2810 Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.”  
Mt2811 While they were going, behold, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place.  
Mt2812 And when they had assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sufficient sum of money to the soldiers  
Mt2813 and said, “Tell people, ‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’  
Mt2814 And if this comes to the governor’s ears, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.”  
Mt2815 So they took the money and did as they were directed. And this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.  
Mt2816 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.  
Mt2817 And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted.  
Mt2818 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  
Mt2819 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  
Mt2820 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”  
Mk0101 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.  
Mk0102 As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way,  
Mk0103 the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’”  
Mk0104 John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.  
Mk0105 And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.  
Mk0106 Now John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.  
Mk0107 And he preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie.  
Mk0108 I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”  
Mk0109 In those days Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.  
Mk0110 And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.  
Mk0111 And a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”  
Mk0112 The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness.  
Mk0113 And he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him.  
Mk0114 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God,  
Mk0115 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”  
Mk0116 Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.  
Mk0117 And Jesus said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men.”  
Mk0118 And immediately they left their nets and followed him.  
Mk0119 And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were in their boat mending the nets.  
Mk0120 And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and followed him.  
Mk0121 And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching.  
Mk0122 And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes.  
Mk0123 And immediately there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out,  
Mk0124 “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.”  
Mk0125 But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent, and come out of him!”  
Mk0126 And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, came out of him.  
Mk0127 And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”  
Mk0128 And at once his fame spread everywhere throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee.  
Mk0129 And immediately he left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.  
Mk0130 Now Simon’s mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her.  
Mk0131 And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them.  
Mk0132 That evening at sundown they brought to him all who were sick or oppressed by demons.  
Mk0133 And the whole city was gathered together at the door.  
Mk0134 And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. And he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.  
Mk0135 And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.  
Mk0136 And Simon and those who were with him searched for him,  
Mk0137 and they found him and said to him, “Everyone is looking for you.”  
Mk0138 And he said to them, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out.”  
Mk0139 And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.  
Mk0140 And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.”  
Mk0141 Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.”  
Mk0142 And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean.  
Mk0143 And Jesus sternly charged him and sent him away at once,  
Mk0144 and said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them.”  
Mk0145 But he went out and began to talk freely about it, and to spread the news, so that Jesus could no longer openly enter a town, but was out in desolate places, and people were coming to him from every quarter.  
Mk0201 And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home.  
Mk0202 And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them.  
Mk0203 And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.  
Mk0204 And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.  
Mk0205 And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”  
Mk0206 Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts,  
Mk0207 “Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”  
Mk0208 And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question these things in your hearts?  
Mk0209 Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk’?  
Mk0210 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—  
Mk0211 “I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home.”  
Mk0212 And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”  
Mk0213 He went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them.  
Mk0214 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.  
Mk0215 And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.  
Mk0216 And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”  
Mk0217 And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”  
Mk0218 Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”  
Mk0219 And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.  
Mk0220 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.  
Mk0221 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.  
Mk0222 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”  
Mk0223 One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain.  
Mk0224 And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”  
Mk0225 And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him:  
Mk0226 how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?”  
Mk0227 And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.  
Mk0228 So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”  
Mk0301 Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand.  
Mk0302 And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him.  
Mk0303 And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.”  
Mk0304 And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent.  
Mk0305 And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.  
Mk0306 The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.  
Mk0307 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea  
Mk0308 and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him.  
Mk0309 And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him,  
Mk0310 for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed around him to touch him.  
Mk0311 And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.”  
Mk0312 And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.  
Mk0313 And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him.  
Mk0314 And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach  
Mk0315 and have authority to cast out demons.  
Mk0316 He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter);  
Mk0317 James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder);  
Mk0318 Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot,  
Mk0319 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.  
Mk0320 Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat.  
Mk0321 And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.”  
Mk0322 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.”  
Mk0323 And he called them to him and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?  
Mk0324 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.  
Mk0325 And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.  
Mk0326 And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end.  
Mk0327 But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house.  
Mk0328 “Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter,  
Mk0329 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”—  
Mk0330 for they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”  
Mk0331 And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him.  
Mk0332 And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.”  
Mk0333 And he answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?”  
Mk0334 And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!  
Mk0335 For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.”  
Mk0401 Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land.  
Mk0402 And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:  
Mk0403 “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.  
Mk0404 And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it.  
Mk0405 Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil.  
Mk0406 And when the sun rose, it was scorched, and since it had no root, it withered away.  
Mk0407 Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain.  
Mk0408 And other seeds fell into good soil and produced grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”  
Mk0409 And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”  
Mk0410 And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.  
Mk0411 And he said to them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables,  
Mk0412 so that “‘they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven.’”  
Mk0413 And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?  
Mk0414 The sower sows the word.  
Mk0415 And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them.  
Mk0416 And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy.  
Mk0417 And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away.  
Mk0418 And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word,  
Mk0419 but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.  
Mk0420 But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.”  
Mk0421 And he said to them, “Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket, or under a bed, and not on a stand?  
Mk0422 For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret except to come to light.  
Mk0423 If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”  
Mk0424 And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.  
Mk0425 For to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.”  
Mk0426 And he said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground.  
Mk0427 He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how.  
Mk0428 The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.  
Mk0429 But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”  
Mk0430 And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it?  
Mk0431 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth,  
Mk0432 yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”  
Mk0433 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.  
Mk0434 He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.  
Mk0435 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.”  
Mk0436 And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him.  
Mk0437 And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling.  
Mk0438 But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”  
Mk0439 And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.  
Mk0440 He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?”  
Mk0441 And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”  
Mk0501 They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.  
Mk0502 And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.  
Mk0503 He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain,  
Mk0504 for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him.  
Mk0505 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.  
Mk0506 And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him.  
Mk0507 And crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.”  
Mk0508 For he was saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”  
Mk0509 And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”  
Mk0510 And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country.  
Mk0511 Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside,  
Mk0512 and they begged him, saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.”  
Mk0513 So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the sea.  
Mk0514 The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came to see what it was that had happened.  
Mk0515 And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.  
Mk0516 And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon- possessed man and to the pigs.  
Mk0517 And they began to beg Jesus to depart from their region.  
Mk0518 As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him that he might be with him.  
Mk0519 And he did not permit him but said to him, “Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.”  
Mk0520 And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.  
Mk0521 And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea.  
Mk0522 Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feet  
Mk0523 and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.”  
Mk0524 And he went with him. And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him.  
Mk0525 And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years,  
Mk0526 and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.  
Mk0527 She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment.  
Mk0528 For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.”  
Mk0529 And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.  
Mk0530 And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?”  
Mk0531 And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’”  
Mk0532 And he looked around to see who had done it.  
Mk0533 But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth.  
Mk0534 And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”  
Mk0535 While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler’s house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?”  
Mk0536 But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”  
Mk0537 And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James.  
Mk0538 They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.  
Mk0539 And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.”  
Mk0540 And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was.  
Mk0541 Taking her by the hand he said to her, “Talitha cumi,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.”  
Mk0542 And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement.  
Mk0543 And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.  
Mk0601 He went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him.  
Mk0602 And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands?  
Mk0603 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.  
Mk0604 And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.”  
Mk0605 And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.  
Mk0606 And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went about among the villages teaching.  
Mk0607 And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.  
Mk0608 He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts—  
Mk0609 but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics.  
Mk0610 And he said to them, “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you depart from there.  
Mk0611 And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.”  
Mk0612 So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent.  
Mk0613 And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them.  
Mk0614 King Herod heard of it, for Jesus’ name had become known. Some said, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead. That is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.”  
Mk0615 But others said, “He is Elijah.” And others said, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.”  
Mk0616 But when Herod heard of it, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised.”  
Mk0617 For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her.  
Mk0618 For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”  
Mk0619 And Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to put him to death. But she could not,  
Mk0620 for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. When he heard him, he was greatly perplexed, and yet he heard him gladly.  
Mk0621 But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.  
Mk0622 For when Herodias’s daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. And the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.”  
Mk0623 And he vowed to her, “Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”  
Mk0624 And she went out and said to her mother, “For what should I ask?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist.”  
Mk0625 And she came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”  
Mk0626 And the king was exceedingly sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her.  
Mk0627 And immediately the king sent an executioner with orders to bring John’s head. He went and beheaded him in the prison  
Mk0628 and brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.  
Mk0629 When his disciples heard of it, they came and took his body and laid it in a tomb.  
Mk0630 The apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught.  
Mk0631 And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.  
Mk0632 And they went away in the boat to a desolate place by themselves.  
Mk0633 Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them.  
Mk0634 When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.  
Mk0635 And when it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is now late.  
Mk0636 Send them away to go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”  
Mk0637 But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said to him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?”  
Mk0638 And he said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.”  
Mk0639 Then he commanded them all to sit down in groups on the green grass.  
Mk0640 So they sat down in groups, by hundreds and by fifties.  
Mk0641 And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the people. And he divided the two fish among them all.  
Mk0642 And they all ate and were satisfied.  
Mk0643 And they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish.  
Mk0644 And those who ate the loaves were five thousand men.  
Mk0645 Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd.  
Mk0646 And after he had taken leave of them, he went up on the mountain to pray.  
Mk0647 And when evening came, the boat was out on the sea, and he was alone on the land.  
Mk0648 And he saw that they were making headway painfully, for the wind was against them. And about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. He meant to pass by them,  
Mk0649 but when they saw him walking on the sea they thought it was a ghost, and cried out,  
Mk0650 for they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, “Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid.”  
Mk0651 And he got into the boat with them, and the wind ceased. And they were utterly astounded,  
Mk0652 for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.  
Mk0653 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored to the shore.  
Mk0654 And when they got out of the boat, the people immediately recognized him  
Mk0655 and ran about the whole region and began to bring the sick people on their beds to wherever they heard he was.  
Mk0656 And wherever he came, in villages, cities, or countryside, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and implored him that they might touch even the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made well.  
Mk0701 Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem,  
Mk0702 they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.  
Mk0703 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders,  
Mk0704 and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.)  
Mk0705 And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?”  
Mk0706 And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;  
Mk0707 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’  
Mk0708 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”  
Mk0709 And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!  
Mk0710 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’  
Mk0711 But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)—  
Mk0712 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,  
Mk0713 thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”  
Mk0714 And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand:  
Mk0715 There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”  
Mk0716  
Mk0717 And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable.  
Mk0718 And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,  
Mk0719 since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)  
Mk0720 And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him.  
Mk0721 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,  
Mk0722 coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.  
Mk0723 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”  
Mk0724 And from there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know, yet he could not be hidden.  
Mk0725 But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.  
Mk0726 Now the woman was a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter.  
Mk0727 And he said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”  
Mk0728 But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”  
Mk0729 And he said to her, “For this statement you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter.”  
Mk0730 And she went home and found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.  
Mk0731 Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis.  
Mk0732 And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and they begged him to lay his hand on him.  
Mk0733 And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue.  
Mk0734 And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.”  
Mk0735 And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.  
Mk0736 And Jesus charged them to tell no one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it.  
Mk0737 And they were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”  
Mk0801 In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them,  
Mk0802 “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat.  
Mk0803 And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way. And some of them have come from far away.”  
Mk0804 And his disciples answered him, “How can one feed these people with bread here in this desolate place?”  
Mk0805 And he asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven.”  
Mk0806 And he directed the crowd to sit down on the ground. And he took the seven loaves, and having given thanks, he broke them and gave them to his disciples to set before the people; and they set them before the crowd.  
Mk0807 And they had a few small fish. And having blessed them, he said that these also should be set before them.  
Mk0808 And they ate and were satisfied. And they took up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.  
Mk0809 And there were about four thousand people. And he sent them away.  
Mk0810 And immediately he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha.  
Mk0811 The Pharisees came and began to argue with him, seeking from him a sign from heaven to test him.  
Mk0812 And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, “Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation.”  
Mk0813 And he left them, got into the boat again, and went to the other side.  
Mk0814 Now they had forgotten to bring bread, and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.  
Mk0815 And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”  
Mk0816 And they began discussing with one another the fact that they had no bread.  
Mk0817 And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?  
Mk0818 Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?  
Mk0819 When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They said to him, “Twelve.”  
Mk0820 “And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” And they said to him, “Seven.”  
Mk0821 And he said to them, “Do you not yet understand?”  
Mk0822 And they came to Bethsaida. And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him.  
Mk0823 And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?”  
Mk0824 And he looked up and said, “I see people, but they look like trees, walking.”  
Mk0825 Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.  
Mk0826 And he sent him to his home, saying, “Do not even enter the village.”  
Mk0827 And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?”  
Mk0828 And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.”  
Mk0829 And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.”  
Mk0830 And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.  
Mk0831 And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.  
Mk0832 And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.  
Mk0833 But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”  
Mk0834 And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.  
Mk0835 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.  
Mk0836 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?  
Mk0837 For what can a man give in return for his soul?  
Mk0838 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”  
Mk0901 And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.”  
Mk0902 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them,  
Mk0903 and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them.  
Mk0904 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.  
Mk0905 And Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.”  
Mk0906 For he did not know what to say, for they were terrified.  
Mk0907 And a cloud overshadowed them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son; listen to him.”  
Mk0908 And suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them but Jesus only.  
Mk0909 And as they were coming down the mountain, he charged them to tell no one what they had seen, until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.  
Mk0910 So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what this rising from the dead might mean.  
Mk0911 And they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?”  
Mk0912 And he said to them, “Elijah does come first to restore all things. And how is it written of the Son of Man that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt?  
Mk0913 But I tell you that Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him.”  
Mk0914 And when they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them.  
Mk0915 And immediately all the crowd, when they saw him, were greatly amazed and ran up to him and greeted him.  
Mk0916 And he asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?”  
Mk0917 And someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a spirit that makes him mute.  
Mk0918 And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able.”  
Mk0919 And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.”  
Mk0920 And they brought the boy to him. And when the spirit saw him, immediately it convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth.  
Mk0921 And Jesus asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.  
Mk0922 And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”  
Mk0923 And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”  
Mk0924 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”  
Mk0925 And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”  
Mk0926 And after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most of them said, “He is dead.”  
Mk0927 But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.  
Mk0928 And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”  
Mk0929 And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.”  
Mk0930 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know,  
Mk0931 for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.”  
Mk0932 But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.  
Mk0933 And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?”  
Mk0934 But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.  
Mk0935 And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”  
Mk0936 And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them,  
Mk0937 “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”  
Mk0938 John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.”  
Mk0939 But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me.  
Mk0940 For the one who is not against us is for us.  
Mk0941 For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will by no means lose his reward.  
Mk0942 “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.  
Mk0943 And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.  
Mk0944  
Mk0945 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.  
Mk0946  
Mk0947 And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,  
Mk0948 ‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’  
Mk0949 For everyone will be salted with fire.  
Mk0950 Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”  
Mk1001 And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.  
Mk1002 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”  
Mk1003 He answered them, “What did Moses command you?”  
Mk1004 They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”  
Mk1005 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.  
Mk1006 But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’  
Mk1007 ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,  
Mk1008 and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.  
Mk1009 What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”  
Mk1010 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.  
Mk1011 And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,  
Mk1012 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”  
Mk1013 And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them.  
Mk1014 But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.  
Mk1015 Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”  
Mk1016 And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.  
Mk1017 And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”  
Mk1018 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.  
Mk1019 You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’”  
Mk1020 And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.”  
Mk1021 And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”  
Mk1022 Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.  
Mk1023 And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”  
Mk1024 And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God!  
Mk1025 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”  
Mk1026 And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, “Then who can be saved?”  
Mk1027 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”  
Mk1028 Peter began to say to him, “See, we have left everything and followed you.”  
Mk1029 Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,  
Mk1030 who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.  
Mk1031 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”  
Mk1032 And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. And they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve again, he began to tell them what was to happen to him,  
Mk1033 saying, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles.  
Mk1034 And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise.”  
Mk1035 And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.”  
Mk1036 And he said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”  
Mk1037 And they said to him, “Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.”  
Mk1038 Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”  
Mk1039 And they said to him, “We are able.” And Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized,  
Mk1040 but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”  
Mk1041 And when the ten heard it, they began to be indignant at James and John.  
Mk1042 And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.  
Mk1043 But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,  
Mk1044 and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.  
Mk1045 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”  
Mk1046 And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside.  
Mk1047 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”  
Mk1048 And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”  
Mk1049 And Jesus stopped and said, “Call him.” And they called the blind man, saying to him, “Take heart. Get up; he is calling you.”  
Mk1050 And throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus.  
Mk1051 And Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” And the blind man said to him, “Rabbi, let me recover my sight.”  
Mk1052 And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way.  
Mk1101 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples  
Mk1102 and said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it.  
Mk1103 If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.’”  
Mk1104 And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it.  
Mk1105 And some of those standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?”  
Mk1106 And they told them what Jesus had said, and they let them go.  
Mk1107 And they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it.  
Mk1108 And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields.  
Mk1109 And those who went before and those who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!  
Mk1110 Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!”  
Mk1111 And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.  
Mk1112 On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry.  
Mk1113 And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.  
Mk1114 And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it.  
Mk1115 And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money- changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.  
Mk1116 And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple.  
Mk1117 And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”  
Mk1118 And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching.  
Mk1119 And when evening came they went out of the city.  
Mk1120 As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots.  
Mk1121 And Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.”  
Mk1122 And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.  
Mk1123 Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.  
Mk1124 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.  
Mk1125 And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”  
Mk1126  
Mk1127 And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him,  
Mk1128 and they said to him, “By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?”  
Mk1129 Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.  
Mk1130 Was the baptism of John from heaven or from man? Answer me.”  
Mk1131 And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’  
Mk1132 But shall we say, ‘From man’?”—they were afraid of the people, for they all held that John really was a prophet.  
Mk1133 So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”  
Mk1201 And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country.  
Mk1202 When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.  
Mk1203 And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.  
Mk1204 Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully.  
Mk1205 And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed.  
Mk1206 He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’  
Mk1207 But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’  
Mk1208 And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.  
Mk1209 What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others.  
Mk1210 Have you not read this Scripture: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;  
Mk1211 this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”  
Mk1212 And they were seeking to arrest him but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away.  
Mk1213 And they sent to him some of the Pharisees and some of the Herodians, to trap him in his talk.  
Mk1214 And they came and said to him, “Teacher, we know that you are true and do not care about anyone’s opinion. For you are not swayed by appearances, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?”  
Mk1215 But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why put me to the test? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.”  
Mk1216 And they brought one. And he said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said to him, “Caesar’s.”  
Mk1217 Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they marveled at him.  
Mk1218 And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying,  
Mk1219 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.  
Mk1220 There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring.  
Mk1221 And the second took her, and died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise.  
Mk1222 And the seven left no offspring. Last of all the woman also died.  
Mk1223 In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.”  
Mk1224 Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?  
Mk1225 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.  
Mk1226 And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?  
Mk1227 He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.”  
Mk1228 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”  
Mk1229 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.  
Mk1230 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’  
Mk1231 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”  
Mk1232 And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him.  
Mk1233 And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”  
Mk1234 And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And after that no one dared to ask him any more questions.  
Mk1235 And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, “How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?  
Mk1236 David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet.”’  
Mk1237 David himself calls him Lord. So how is he his son?” And the great throng heard him gladly.  
Mk1238 And in his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces  
Mk1239 and have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,  
Mk1240 who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”  
Mk1241 And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums.  
Mk1242 And a poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which make a penny.  
Mk1243 And he called his disciples to him and said to them, “Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box.  
Mk1244 For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on.”  
Mk1301 And as he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings!”  
Mk1302 And Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”  
Mk1303 And as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately,  
Mk1304 “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when all these things are about to be accomplished?”  
Mk1305 And Jesus began to say to them, “See that no one leads you astray.  
Mk1306 Many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and they will lead many astray.  
Mk1307 And when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. This must take place, but the end is not yet.  
Mk1308 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These are but the beginning of the birth pains.  
Mk1309 “But be on your guard. For they will deliver you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them.  
Mk1310 And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all nations.  
Mk1311 And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.  
Mk1312 And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death.  
Mk1313 And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.  
Mk1314 “But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.  
Mk1315 Let the one who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter his house, to take anything out,  
Mk1316 and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak.  
Mk1317 And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!  
Mk1318 Pray that it may not happen in winter.  
Mk1319 For in those days there will be such tribulation as has not been from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will be.  
Mk1320 And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days.  
Mk1321 And then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it.  
Mk1322 For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect.  
Mk1323 But be on guard; I have told you all things beforehand.  
Mk1324 “But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light,  
Mk1325 and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.  
Mk1326 And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.  
Mk1327 And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.  
Mk1328 “From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.  
Mk1329 So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that he is near, at the very gates.  
Mk1330 Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.  
Mk1331 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.  
Mk1332 “But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.  
Mk1333 Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come.  
Mk1334 It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake.  
Mk1335 Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—  
Mk1336 lest he come suddenly and find you asleep.  
Mk1337 And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake.”  
Mk1401 It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him,  
Mk1402 for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.”  
Mk1403 And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.  
Mk1404 There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that?  
Mk1405 For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they scolded her.  
Mk1406 But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.  
Mk1407 For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me.  
Mk1408 She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial.  
Mk1409 And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”  
Mk1410 Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them.  
Mk1411 And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him.  
Mk1412 And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?”  
Mk1413 And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him,  
Mk1414 and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’  
Mk1415 And he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; there prepare for us.”  
Mk1416 And the disciples set out and went to the city and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.  
Mk1417 And when it was evening, he came with the twelve.  
Mk1418 And as they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me.”  
Mk1419 They began to be sorrowful and to say to him one after another, “Is it I?”  
Mk1420 He said to them, “It is one of the twelve, one who is dipping bread into the dish with me.  
Mk1421 For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”  
Mk1422 And as they were eating, he took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to them, and said, “Take; this is my body.”  
Mk1423 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it.  
Mk1424 And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.  
Mk1425 Truly, I say to you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”  
Mk1426 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.  
Mk1427 And Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’  
Mk1428 But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.”  
Mk1429 Peter said to him, “Even though they all fall away, I will not.”  
Mk1430 And Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”  
Mk1431 But he said emphatically, “If I must die with you, I will not deny you.” And they all said the same.  
Mk1432 And they went to a place called Gethsemane. And he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”  
Mk1433 And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled.  
Mk1434 And he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch.”  
Mk1435 And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.  
Mk1436 And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”  
Mk1437 And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour?  
Mk1438 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”  
Mk1439 And again he went away and prayed, saying the same words.  
Mk1440 And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they did not know what to answer him.  
Mk1441 And he came the third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough; the hour has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.  
Mk1442 Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”  
Mk1443 And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.  
Mk1444 Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man. Seize him and lead him away under guard.”  
Mk1445 And when he came, he went up to him at once and said, “Rabbi!” And he kissed him.  
Mk1446 And they laid hands on him and seized him.  
Mk1447 But one of those who stood by drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear.  
Mk1448 And Jesus said to them, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me?  
Mk1449 Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the Scriptures be fulfilled.”  
Mk1450 And they all left him and fled.  
Mk1451 And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body. And they seized him,  
Mk1452 but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked.  
Mk1453 And they led Jesus to the high priest. And all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes came together.  
Mk1454 And Peter had followed him at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest. And he was sitting with the guards and warming himself at the fire.  
Mk1455 Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking testimony against Jesus to put him to death, but they found none.  
Mk1456 For many bore false witness against him, but their testimony did not agree.  
Mk1457 And some stood up and bore false witness against him, saying,  
Mk1458 “We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another, not made with hands.’”  
Mk1459 Yet even about this their testimony did not agree.  
Mk1460 And the high priest stood up in the midst and asked Jesus, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?”  
Mk1461 But he remained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”  
Mk1462 And Jesus said, “I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.”  
Mk1463 And the high priest tore his garments and said, “What further witnesses do we need?  
Mk1464 You have heard his blasphemy. What is your decision?” And they all condemned him as deserving death.  
Mk1465 And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to strike him, saying to him, “Prophesy!” And the guards received him with blows.  
Mk1466 And as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came,  
Mk1467 and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, “You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus.”  
Mk1468 But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you mean.” And he went out into the gateway and the rooster crowed.  
Mk1469 And the servant girl saw him and began again to say to the bystanders, “This man is one of them.”  
Mk1470 But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders again said to Peter, “Certainly you are one of them, for you are a Galilean.”  
Mk1471 But he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know this man of whom you speak.”  
Mk1472 And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept.  
Mk1501 And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate.  
Mk1502 And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.”  
Mk1503 And the chief priests accused him of many things.  
Mk1504 And Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.”  
Mk1505 But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed.  
Mk1506 Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked.  
Mk1507 And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas.  
Mk1508 And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them.  
Mk1509 And he answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?”  
Mk1510 For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up.  
Mk1511 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead.  
Mk1512 And Pilate again said to them, “Then what shall I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?”  
Mk1513 And they cried out again, “Crucify him.”  
Mk1514 And Pilate said to them, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify him.”  
Mk1515 So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.  
Mk1516 And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor’s headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion.  
Mk1517 And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him.  
Mk1518 And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”  
Mk1519 And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him.  
Mk1520 And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him.  
Mk1521 And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.  
Mk1522 And they brought him to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull).  
Mk1523 And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it.  
Mk1524 And they crucified him and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take.  
Mk1525 And it was the third hour when they crucified him.  
Mk1526 And the inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.”  
Mk1527 And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left.  
Mk1528  
Mk1529 And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,  
Mk1530 save yourself, and come down from the cross!”  
Mk1531 So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked him to one another, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself.  
Mk1532 Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.  
Mk1533 And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.  
Mk1534 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”  
Mk1535 And some of the bystanders hearing it said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.”  
Mk1536 And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.”  
Mk1537 And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last.  
Mk1538 And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.  
Mk1539 And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”  
Mk1540 There were also women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.  
Mk1541 When he was in Galilee, they followed him and ministered to him, and there were also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.  
Mk1542 And when evening had come, since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath,  
Mk1543 Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself looking for the kingdom of God, took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.  
Mk1544 Pilate was surprised to hear that he should have already died. And summoning the centurion, he asked him whether he was already dead.  
Mk1545 And when he learned from the centurion that he was dead, he granted the corpse to Joseph.  
Mk1546 And Joseph bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud and laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. And he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.  
Mk1547 Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was laid.  
Mk1601 When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.  
Mk1602 And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb.  
Mk1603 And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?”  
Mk1604 And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back—it was very large.  
Mk1605 And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed.  
Mk1606 And he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him.  
Mk1607 But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.”  
Mk1608 And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had seized them, and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.  
Mk1609 [[Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.  
Mk1610 She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.  
Mk1611 But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.  
Mk1612 After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country.  
Mk1613 And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.  
Mk1614 Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.  
Mk1615 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.  
Mk1616 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.  
Mk1617 And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;  
Mk1618 they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”  
Mk1619 So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.  
Mk1620 And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]]  
Lk0101 Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us,  
Lk0102 just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us,  
Lk0103 it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,  
Lk0104 that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.  
Lk0105 In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.  
Lk0106 And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.  
Lk0107 But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years.  
Lk0108 Now while he was serving as priest before God when his division was on duty,  
Lk0109 according to the custom of the priesthood, he was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.  
Lk0110 And the whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.  
Lk0111 And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.  
Lk0112 And Zechariah was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him.  
Lk0113 But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.  
Lk0114 And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth,  
Lk0115 for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.  
Lk0116 And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God,  
Lk0117 and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”  
Lk0118 And Zechariah said to the angel, “How shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.”  
Lk0119 And the angel answered him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.  
Lk0120 And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.”  
Lk0121 And the people were waiting for Zechariah, and they were wondering at his delay in the temple.  
Lk0122 And when he came out, he was unable to speak to them, and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he kept making signs to them and remained mute.  
Lk0123 And when his time of service was ended, he went to his home.  
Lk0124 After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and for five months she kept herself hidden, saying,  
Lk0125 “Thus the Lord has done for me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people.”  
Lk0126 In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,  
Lk0127 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary.  
Lk0128 And he came to her and said, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!”  
Lk0129 But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be.  
Lk0130 And the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.  
Lk0131 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.  
Lk0132 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David,  
Lk0133 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”  
Lk0134 And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?”  
Lk0135 And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.  
Lk0136 And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.  
Lk0137 For nothing will be impossible with God.”  
Lk0138 And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.  
Lk0139 In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah,  
Lk0140 and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.  
Lk0141 And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,  
Lk0142 and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!  
Lk0143 And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?  
Lk0144 For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.  
Lk0145 And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”  
Lk0146 And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord,  
Lk0147 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,  
Lk0148 for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed;  
Lk0149 for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.  
Lk0150 And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.  
Lk0151 He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts;  
Lk0152 he has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate;  
Lk0153 he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.  
Lk0154 He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy,  
Lk0155 as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever.”  
Lk0156 And Mary remained with her about three months and returned to her home.  
Lk0157 Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son.  
Lk0158 And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.  
Lk0159 And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father,  
Lk0160 but his mother answered, “No; he shall be called John.”  
Lk0161 And they said to her, “None of your relatives is called by this name.”  
Lk0162 And they made signs to his father, inquiring what he wanted him to be called.  
Lk0163 And he asked for a writing tablet and wrote, “His name is John.” And they all wondered.  
Lk0164 And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing God.  
Lk0165 And fear came on all their neighbors. And all these things were talked about through all the hill country of Judea,  
Lk0166 and all who heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, “What then will this child be?” For the hand of the Lord was with him.  
Lk0167 And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying,  
Lk0168 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people  
Lk0169 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,  
Lk0170 as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,  
Lk0171 that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us;  
Lk0172 to show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant,  
Lk0173 the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us  
Lk0174 that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear,  
Lk0175 in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.  
Lk0176 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,  
Lk0177 to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins,  
Lk0178 because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high  
Lk0179 to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”  
Lk0180 And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.  
Lk0201 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.  
Lk0202 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria.  
Lk0203 And all went to be registered, each to his own town.  
Lk0204 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David,  
Lk0205 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.  
Lk0206 And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth.  
Lk0207 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.  
Lk0208 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.  
Lk0209 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear.  
Lk0210 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.  
Lk0211 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.  
Lk0212 And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”  
Lk0213 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,  
Lk0214 “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”  
Lk0215 When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”  
Lk0216 And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger.  
Lk0217 And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child.  
Lk0218 And all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them.  
Lk0219 But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.  
Lk0220 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.  
Lk0221 And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.  
Lk0222 And when the time came for their purification according to the Law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord  
Lk0223 (as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”)  
Lk0224 and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”  
Lk0225 Now there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.  
Lk0226 And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.  
Lk0227 And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law,  
Lk0228 he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said,  
Lk0229 “Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word;  
Lk0230 for my eyes have seen your salvation  
Lk0231 that you have prepared in the presence of all peoples,  
Lk0232 a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.”  
Lk0233 And his father and his mother marveled at what was said about him.  
Lk0234 And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed  
Lk0235 (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.”  
Lk0236 And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin,  
Lk0237 and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.  
Lk0238 And coming up at that very hour she began to give thanks to God and to speak of him to all who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem.  
Lk0239 And when they had performed everything according to the Law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.  
Lk0240 And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him.  
Lk0241 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.  
Lk0242 And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom.  
Lk0243 And when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it,  
Lk0244 but supposing him to be in the group they went a day’s journey, but then they began to search for him among their relatives and acquaintances,  
Lk0245 and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching for him.  
Lk0246 After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.  
Lk0247 And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.  
Lk0248 And when his parents saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been searching for you in great distress.”  
Lk0249 And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”  
Lk0250 And they did not understand the saying that he spoke to them.  
Lk0251 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.  
Lk0252 And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.  
Lk0301 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,  
Lk0302 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.  
Lk0303 And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.  
Lk0304 As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.  
Lk0305 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places shall become level ways,  
Lk0306 and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”  
Lk0307 He said therefore to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?  
Lk0308 Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.  
Lk0309 Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”  
Lk0310 And the crowds asked him, “What then shall we do?”  
Lk0311 And he answered them, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.”  
Lk0312 Tax collectors also came to be baptized and said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?”  
Lk0313 And he said to them, “Collect no more than you are authorized to do.”  
Lk0314 Soldiers also asked him, “And we, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusation, and be content with your wages.”  
Lk0315 As the people were in expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Christ,  
Lk0316 John answered them all, saying, “I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.  
Lk0317 His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”  
Lk0318 So with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people.  
Lk0319 But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done,  
Lk0320 added this to them all, that he locked up John in prison.  
Lk0321 Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heavens were opened,  
Lk0322 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.”  
Lk0323 Jesus, when he began his ministry, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,  
Lk0324 the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,  
Lk0325 the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,  
Lk0326 the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda,  
Lk0327 the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,  
Lk0328 the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,  
Lk0329 the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,  
Lk0330 the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,  
Lk0331 the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,  
Lk0332 the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Sala, the son of Nahshon,  
Lk0333 the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,  
Lk0334 the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,  
Lk0335 the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,  
Lk0336 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,  
Lk0337 the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,  
Lk0338 the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.  
Lk0401 And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness  
Lk0402 for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.  
Lk0403 The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”  
Lk0404 And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’”  
Lk0405 And the devil took him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,  
Lk0406 and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will.  
Lk0407 If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.”  
Lk0408 And Jesus answered him, “It is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’”  
Lk0409 And he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here,  
Lk0410 for it is written, “‘He will command his angels concerning you, to guard you,’  
Lk0411 and “‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”  
Lk0412 And Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”  
Lk0413 And when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from him until an opportune time.  
Lk0414 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country.  
Lk0415 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.  
Lk0416 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read.  
Lk0417 And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written,  
Lk0418 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,  
Lk0419 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”  
Lk0420 And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him.  
Lk0421 And he began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”  
Lk0422 And all spoke well of him and marveled at the gracious words that were coming from his mouth. And they said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?”  
Lk0423 And he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘“Physician, heal yourself.” What we have heard you did at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.’”  
Lk0424 And he said, “Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.  
Lk0425 But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,  
Lk0426 and Elijah was sent to none of them but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.  
Lk0427 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”  
Lk0428 When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath.  
Lk0429 And they rose up and drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.  
Lk0430 But passing through their midst, he went away.  
Lk0431 And he went down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the Sabbath,  
Lk0432 and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word possessed authority.  
Lk0433 And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice,  
Lk0434 “Ha! What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God.”  
Lk0435 But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm.  
Lk0436 And they were all amazed and said to one another, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”  
Lk0437 And reports about him went out into every place in the surrounding region.  
Lk0438 And he arose and left the synagogue and entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was ill with a high fever, and they appealed to him on her behalf.  
Lk0439 And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her, and immediately she rose and began to serve them.  
Lk0440 Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.  
Lk0441 And demons also came out of many, crying, “You are the Son of God!” But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.  
Lk0442 And when it was day, he departed and went into a desolate place. And the people sought him and came to him, and would have kept him from leaving them,  
Lk0443 but he said to them, “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was sent for this purpose.”  
Lk0444 And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea.  
Lk0501 On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret,  
Lk0502 and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.  
Lk0503 Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat.  
Lk0504 And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”  
Lk0505 And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.”  
Lk0506 And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking.  
Lk0507 They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.  
Lk0508 But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.”  
Lk0509 For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken,  
Lk0510 and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.”  
Lk0511 And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.  
Lk0512 While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.”  
Lk0513 And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him.  
Lk0514 And he charged him to tell no one, but “go and show yourself to the priest, and make an offering for your cleansing, as Moses commanded, for a proof to them.”  
Lk0515 But now even more the report about him went abroad, and great crowds gathered to hear him and to be healed of their infirmities.  
Lk0516 But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray.  
Lk0517 On one of those days, as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with him to heal.  
Lk0518 And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus,  
Lk0519 but finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus.  
Lk0520 And when he saw their faith, he said, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”  
Lk0521 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, “Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”  
Lk0522 When Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered them, “Why do you question in your hearts?  
Lk0523 Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’?  
Lk0524 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the man who was paralyzed— “I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home.”  
Lk0525 And immediately he rose up before them and picked up what he had been lying on and went home, glorifying God.  
Lk0526 And amazement seized them all, and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, “We have seen extraordinary things today.”  
Lk0527 After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, “Follow me.”  
Lk0528 And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.  
Lk0529 And Levi made him a great feast in his house, and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them.  
Lk0530 And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”  
Lk0531 And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.  
Lk0532 I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”  
Lk0533 And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.”  
Lk0534 And Jesus said to them, “Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?  
Lk0535 The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.”  
Lk0536 He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.  
Lk0537 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.  
Lk0538 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.  
Lk0539 And no one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’”  
Lk0601 On a Sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands.  
Lk0602 But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?”  
Lk0603 And Jesus answered them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him:  
Lk0604 how he entered the house of God and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?”  
Lk0605 And he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”  
Lk0606 On another Sabbath, he entered the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was withered.  
Lk0607 And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might find a reason to accuse him.  
Lk0608 But he knew their thoughts, and he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come and stand here.” And he rose and stood there.  
Lk0609 And Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it?”  
Lk0610 And after looking around at them all he said to him, “Stretch out your hand.” And he did so, and his hand was restored.  
Lk0611 But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.  
Lk0612 In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.  
Lk0613 And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles:  
Lk0614 Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew,  
Lk0615 and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot,  
Lk0616 and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.  
Lk0617 And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon,  
Lk0618 who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured.  
Lk0619 And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came out from him and healed them all.  
Lk0620 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.  
Lk0621 “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.  
Lk0622 “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!  
Lk0623 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.  
Lk0624 “But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.  
Lk0625 “Woe to you who are full now, for you shall be hungry. “Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.  
Lk0626 “Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.  
Lk0627 “But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,  
Lk0628 bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.  
Lk0629 To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either.  
Lk0630 Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back.  
Lk0631 And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.  
Lk0632 “If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.  
Lk0633 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.  
Lk0634 And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back the same amount.  
Lk0635 But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.  
Lk0636 Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.  
Lk0637 “Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;  
Lk0638 give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”  
Lk0639 He also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?  
Lk0640 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.  
Lk0641 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?  
Lk0642 How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.  
Lk0643 “For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit,  
Lk0644 for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.  
Lk0645 The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.  
Lk0646 “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?  
Lk0647 Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like:  
Lk0648 he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.  
Lk0649 But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”  
Lk0701 After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum.  
Lk0702 Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him.  
Lk0703 When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant.  
Lk0704 And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him,  
Lk0705 for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue.”  
Lk0706 And Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to him, “Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof.  
Lk0707 Therefore I did not presume to come to you. But say the word, and let my servant be healed.  
Lk0708 For I too am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me: and I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”  
Lk0709 When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, said, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.”  
Lk0710 And when those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the servant well.  
Lk0711 Soon afterward he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him.  
Lk0712 As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her.  
Lk0713 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.”  
Lk0714 Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.”  
Lk0715 And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother.  
Lk0716 Fear seized them all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and “God has visited his people!”  
Lk0717 And this report about him spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country.  
Lk0718 The disciples of John reported all these things to him. And John,  
Lk0719 calling two of his disciples to him, sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?”  
Lk0720 And when the men had come to him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to you, saying, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?’”  
Lk0721 In that hour he healed many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and on many who were blind he bestowed sight.  
Lk0722 And he answered them, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them.  
Lk0723 And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.”  
Lk0724 When John’s messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?  
Lk0725 What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are dressed in splendid clothing and live in luxury are in kings’ courts.  
Lk0726 What then did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.  
Lk0727 This is he of whom it is written, “‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’  
Lk0728 I tell you, among those born of women none is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.”  
Lk0729 (When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just, having been baptized with the baptism of John,  
Lk0730 but the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)  
Lk0731 “To what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?  
Lk0732 They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’  
Lk0733 For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’  
Lk0734 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’  
Lk0735 Yet wisdom is justified by all her children.”  
Lk0736 One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and reclined at table.  
Lk0737 And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment,  
Lk0738 and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.  
Lk0739 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.”  
Lk0740 And Jesus answering said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he answered, “Say it, Teacher.”  
Lk0741 “A certain moneylender had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.  
Lk0742 When they could not pay, he cancelled the debt of both. Now which of them will love him more?”  
Lk0743 Simon answered, “The one, I suppose, for whom he cancelled the larger debt.” And he said to him, “You have judged rightly.”  
Lk0744 Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.  
Lk0745 You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not ceased to kiss my feet.  
Lk0746 You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.  
Lk0747 Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little.”  
Lk0748 And he said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”  
Lk0749 Then those who were at table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?”  
Lk0750 And he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”  
Lk0801 Soon afterward he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him,  
Lk0802 and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,  
Lk0803 and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod’s household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.  
Lk0804 And when a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, he said in a parable,  
Lk0805 “A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled underfoot, and the birds of the air devoured it.  
Lk0806 And some fell on the rock, and as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.  
Lk0807 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.  
Lk0808 And some fell into good soil and grew and yielded a hundredfold.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”  
Lk0809 And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant,  
Lk0810 he said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’  
Lk0811 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.  
Lk0812 The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.  
Lk0813 And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of testing fall away.  
Lk0814 And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.  
Lk0815 As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.  
Lk0816 “No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light.  
Lk0817 For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.  
Lk0818 Take care then how you hear, for to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away.”  
Lk0819 Then his mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not reach him because of the crowd.  
Lk0820 And he was told, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, desiring to see you.”  
Lk0821 But he answered them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it.”  
Lk0822 One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” So they set out,  
Lk0823 and as they sailed he fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water and were in danger.  
Lk0824 And they went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ceased, and there was a calm.  
Lk0825 He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?”  
Lk0826 Then they sailed to the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee.  
Lk0827 When Jesus had stepped out on land, there met him a man from the city who had demons. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he had not lived in a house but among the tombs.  
Lk0828 When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him and said with a loud voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me.”  
Lk0829 For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many a time it had seized him. He was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.)  
Lk0830 Jesus then asked him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Legion,” for many demons had entered him.  
Lk0831 And they begged him not to command them to depart into the abyss.  
Lk0832 Now a large herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and they begged him to let them enter these. So he gave them permission.  
Lk0833 Then the demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.  
Lk0834 When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country.  
Lk0835 Then people went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind, and they were afraid.  
Lk0836 And those who had seen it told them how the demon-possessed man had been healed.  
Lk0837 Then all the people of the surrounding country of the Gerasenes asked him to depart from them, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned.  
Lk0838 The man from whom the demons had gone begged that he might be with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,  
Lk0839 “Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you.” And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.  
Lk0840 Now when Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.  
Lk0841 And there came a man named Jairus, who was a ruler of the synagogue. And falling at Jesus’ feet, he implored him to come to his house,  
Lk0842 for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying. As Jesus went, the people pressed around him.  
Lk0843 And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone.  
Lk0844 She came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment, and immediately her discharge of blood ceased.  
Lk0845 And Jesus said, “Who was it that touched me?” When all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the crowds surround you and are pressing in on you!”  
Lk0846 But Jesus said, “Someone touched me, for I perceive that power has gone out from me.”  
Lk0847 And when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed.  
Lk0848 And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”  
Lk0849 While he was still speaking, someone from the ruler’s house came and said, “Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the Teacher any more.”  
Lk0850 But Jesus on hearing this answered him, “Do not fear; only believe, and she will be well.”  
Lk0851 And when he came to the house, he allowed no one to enter with him, except Peter and John and James, and the father and mother of the child.  
Lk0852 And all were weeping and mourning for her, but he said, “Do not weep, for she is not dead but sleeping.”  
Lk0853 And they laughed at him, knowing that she was dead.  
Lk0854 But taking her by the hand he called, saying, “Child, arise.”  
Lk0855 And her spirit returned, and she got up at once. And he directed that something should be given her to eat.  
Lk0856 And her parents were amazed, but he charged them to tell no one what had happened.  
Lk0901 And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases,  
Lk0902 and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal.  
Lk0903 And he said to them, “Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics.  
Lk0904 And whatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart.  
Lk0905 And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”  
Lk0906 And they departed and went through the villages, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere.  
Lk0907 Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, and he was perplexed, because it was said by some that John had been raised from the dead,  
Lk0908 by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the prophets of old had risen.  
Lk0909 Herod said, “John I beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” And he sought to see him.  
Lk0910 On their return the apostles told him all that they had done. And he took them and withdrew apart to a town called Bethsaida.  
Lk0911 When the crowds learned it, they followed him, and he welcomed them and spoke to them of the kingdom of God and cured those who had need of healing.  
Lk0912 Now the day began to wear away, and the twelve came and said to him, “Send the crowd away to go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find lodging and get provisions, for we are here in a desolate place.”  
Lk0913 But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish—unless we are to go and buy food for all these people.”  
Lk0914 For there were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”  
Lk0915 And they did so, and had them all sit down.  
Lk0916 And taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing over them. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.  
Lk0917 And they all ate and were satisfied. And what was left over was picked up, twelve baskets of broken pieces.  
Lk0918 Now it happened that as he was praying alone, the disciples were with him. And he asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”  
Lk0919 And they answered, “John the Baptist. But others say, Elijah, and others, that one of the prophets of old has risen.”  
Lk0920 Then he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”  
Lk0921 And he strictly charged and commanded them to tell this to no one,  
Lk0922 saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.”  
Lk0923 And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.  
Lk0924 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.  
Lk0925 For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?  
Lk0926 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.  
Lk0927 But I tell you truly, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.”  
Lk0928 Now about eight days after these sayings he took with him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray.  
Lk0929 And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became dazzling white.  
Lk0930 And behold, two men were talking with him, Moses and Elijah,  
Lk0931 who appeared in glory and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.  
Lk0932 Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they became fully awake they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him.  
Lk0933 And as the men were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah”—not knowing what he said.  
Lk0934 As he was saying these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud.  
Lk0935 And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, my Chosen One; listen to him!”  
Lk0936 And when the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent and told no one in those days anything of what they had seen.  
Lk0937 On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met him.  
Lk0938 And behold, a man from the crowd cried out, “Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.  
Lk0939 And behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out. It convulses him so that he foams at the mouth, and shatters him, and will hardly leave him.  
Lk0940 And I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not.”  
Lk0941 Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”  
Lk0942 While he was coming, the demon threw him to the ground and convulsed him. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.  
Lk0943 And all were astonished at the majesty of God. But while they were all marveling at everything he was doing, Jesus said to his disciples,  
Lk0944 “Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”  
Lk0945 But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them, so that they might not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask him about this saying.  
Lk0946 An argument arose among them as to which of them was the greatest.  
Lk0947 But Jesus, knowing the reasoning of their hearts, took a child and put him by his side  
Lk0948 and said to them, “Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For he who is least among you all is the one who is great.”  
Lk0949 John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not follow with us.”  
Lk0950 But Jesus said to him, “Do not stop him, for the one who is not against you is for you.”  
Lk0951 When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem.  
Lk0952 And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans, to make preparations for him.  
Lk0953 But the people did not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem.  
Lk0954 And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”  
Lk0955 But he turned and rebuked them.  
Lk0956 And they went on to another village.  
Lk0957 As they were going along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”  
Lk0958 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”  
Lk0959 To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”  
Lk0960 And Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”  
Lk0961 Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.”  
Lk0962 Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”  
Lk1001 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.  
Lk1002 And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.  
Lk1003 Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves.  
Lk1004 Carry no moneybag, no knapsack, no sandals, and greet no one on the road.  
Lk1005 Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house!’  
Lk1006 And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if not, it will return to you.  
Lk1007 And remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they provide, for the laborer deserves his wages. Do not go from house to house.  
Lk1008 Whenever you enter a town and they receive you, eat what is set before you.  
Lk1009 Heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’  
Lk1010 But whenever you enter a town and they do not receive you, go into its streets and say,  
Lk1011 ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near.’  
Lk1012 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.  
Lk1013 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.  
Lk1014 But it will be more bearable in the judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you.  
Lk1015 And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades.  
Lk1016 “The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.”  
Lk1017 The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”  
Lk1018 And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.  
Lk1019 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.  
Lk1020 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”  
Lk1021 In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.  
Lk1022 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”  
Lk1023 Then turning to the disciples he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!  
Lk1024 For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”  
Lk1025 And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”  
Lk1026 He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?”  
Lk1027 And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”  
Lk1028 And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”  
Lk1029 But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”  
Lk1030 Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead.  
Lk1031 Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side.  
Lk1032 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.  
Lk1033 But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion.  
Lk1034 He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him.  
Lk1035 And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.’  
Lk1036 Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?”  
Lk1037 He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” And Jesus said to him, “You go, and do likewise.”  
Lk1038 Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house.  
Lk1039 And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching.  
Lk1040 But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.”  
Lk1041 But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,  
Lk1042 but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”  
Lk1101 Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”  
Lk1102 And he said to them, “When you pray, say: “Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come.  
Lk1103 Give us each day our daily bread,  
Lk1104 and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.”  
Lk1105 And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,  
Lk1106 for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’;  
Lk1107 and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’?  
Lk1108 I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs.  
Lk1109 And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.  
Lk1110 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.  
Lk1111 What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent;  
Lk1112 or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?  
Lk1113 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”  
Lk1114 Now he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke, and the people marveled.  
Lk1115 But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of demons,”  
Lk1116 while others, to test him, kept seeking from him a sign from heaven.  
Lk1117 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls.  
Lk1118 And if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.  
Lk1119 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.  
Lk1120 But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.  
Lk1121 When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are safe;  
Lk1122 but when one stronger than he attacks him and overcomes him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted and divides his spoil.  
Lk1123 Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.  
Lk1124 “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and finding none it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’  
Lk1125 And when it comes, it finds the house swept and put in order.  
Lk1126 Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last state of that person is worse than the first.”  
Lk1127 As he said these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!”  
Lk1128 But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”  
Lk1129 When the crowds were increasing, he began to say, “This generation is an evil generation. It seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.  
Lk1130 For as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.  
Lk1131 The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.  
Lk1132 The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.  
Lk1133 “No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light.  
Lk1134 Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.  
Lk1135 Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness.  
Lk1136 If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light.”  
Lk1137 While Jesus was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him, so he went in and reclined at table.  
Lk1138 The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner.  
Lk1139 And the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.  
Lk1140 You fools! Did not he who made the outside make the inside also?  
Lk1141 But give as alms those things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you.  
Lk1142 “But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.  
Lk1143 Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.  
Lk1144 Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.”  
Lk1145 One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also.”  
Lk1146 And he said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.  
Lk1147 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed.  
Lk1148 So you are witnesses and you consent to the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs.  
Lk1149 Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’  
Lk1150 so that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,  
Lk1151 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.  
Lk1152 Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”  
Lk1153 As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak about many things,  
Lk1154 lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say.  
Lk1201 In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.  
Lk1202 Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.  
Lk1203 Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.  
Lk1204 “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.  
Lk1205 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!  
Lk1206 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God.  
Lk1207 Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.  
Lk1208 “And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God,  
Lk1209 but the one who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God.  
Lk1210 And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.  
Lk1211 And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say,  
Lk1212 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”  
Lk1213 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”  
Lk1214 But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?”  
Lk1215 And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”  
Lk1216 And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully,  
Lk1217 and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’  
Lk1218 And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.  
Lk1219 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’  
Lk1220 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’  
Lk1221 So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”  
Lk1222 And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on.  
Lk1223 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.  
Lk1224 Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!  
Lk1225 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?  
Lk1226 If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest?  
Lk1227 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  
Lk1228 But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!  
Lk1229 And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried.  
Lk1230 For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.  
Lk1231 Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.  
Lk1232 “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.  
Lk1233 Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.  
Lk1234 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.  
Lk1235 “Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning,  
Lk1236 and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks.  
Lk1237 Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them.  
Lk1238 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants!  
Lk1239 But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.  
Lk1240 You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”  
Lk1241 Peter said, “Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for all?”  
Lk1242 And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time?  
Lk1243 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.  
Lk1244 Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions.  
Lk1245 But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,  
Lk1246 the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.  
Lk1247 And that servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating.  
Lk1248 But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.  
Lk1249 “I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled!  
Lk1250 I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished!  
Lk1251 Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.  
Lk1252 For from now on in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three.  
Lk1253 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”  
Lk1254 He also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, ‘A shower is coming.’ And so it happens.  
Lk1255 And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, ‘There will be scorching heat,’ and it happens.  
Lk1256 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?  
Lk1257 “And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?  
Lk1258 As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison.  
Lk1259 I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the very last penny.”  
Lk1301 There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.  
Lk1302 And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way?  
Lk1303 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.  
Lk1304 Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem?  
Lk1305 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”  
Lk1306 And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.  
Lk1307 And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’  
Lk1308 And he answered him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure.  
Lk1309 Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’”  
Lk1310 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.  
Lk1311 And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself.  
Lk1312 When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.”  
Lk1313 And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God.  
Lk1314 But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, “There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.”  
Lk1315 Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it?  
Lk1316 And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?”  
Lk1317 As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.  
Lk1318 He said therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like? And to what shall I compare it?  
Lk1319 It is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches.”  
Lk1320 And again he said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God?  
Lk1321 It is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”  
Lk1322 He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem.  
Lk1323 And someone said to him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” And he said to them,  
Lk1324 “Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.  
Lk1325 When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’  
Lk1326 Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’  
Lk1327 But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’  
Lk1328 In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out.  
Lk1329 And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God.  
Lk1330 And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”  
Lk1331 At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.”  
Lk1332 And he said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course.  
Lk1333 Nevertheless, I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.’  
Lk1334 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!  
Lk1335 Behold, your house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’”  
Lk1401 One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully.  
Lk1402 And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy.  
Lk1403 And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?”  
Lk1404 But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away.  
Lk1405 And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?”  
Lk1406 And they could not reply to these things.  
Lk1407 Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the places of honor, saying to them,  
Lk1408 “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him,  
Lk1409 and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.  
Lk1410 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.  
Lk1411 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”  
Lk1412 He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.  
Lk1413 But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,  
Lk1414 and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”  
Lk1415 When one of those who reclined at table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!”  
Lk1416 But he said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet and invited many.  
Lk1417 And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’  
Lk1418 But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please have me excused.’  
Lk1419 And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to examine them. Please have me excused.’  
Lk1420 And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’  
Lk1421 So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’  
Lk1422 And the servant said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’  
Lk1423 And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.  
Lk1424 For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.’”  
Lk1425 Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them,  
Lk1426 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.  
Lk1427 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.  
Lk1428 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?  
Lk1429 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,  
Lk1430 saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’  
Lk1431 Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?  
Lk1432 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.  
Lk1433 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.  
Lk1434 “Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?  
Lk1435 It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”  
Lk1501 Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.  
Lk1502 And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.”  
Lk1503 So he told them this parable:  
Lk1504 “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?  
Lk1505 And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.  
Lk1506 And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’  
Lk1507 Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.  
Lk1508 “Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?  
Lk1509 And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’  
Lk1510 Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”  
Lk1511 And he said, “There was a man who had two sons.  
Lk1512 And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them.  
Lk1513 Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.  
Lk1514 And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need.  
Lk1515 So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.  
Lk1516 And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.  
Lk1517 “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!  
Lk1518 I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.  
Lk1519 I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.”’  
Lk1520 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.  
Lk1521 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’  
Lk1522 But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.  
Lk1523 And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate.  
Lk1524 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.  
Lk1525 “Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.  
Lk1526 And he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant.  
Lk1527 And he said to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and sound.’  
Lk1528 But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him,  
Lk1529 but he answered his father, ‘Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.  
Lk1530 But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’  
Lk1531 And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.  
Lk1532 It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.’”  
Lk1601 He also said to the disciples, “There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions.  
Lk1602 And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’  
Lk1603 And the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.  
Lk1604 I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from management, people may receive me into their houses.’  
Lk1605 So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’  
Lk1606 He said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’  
Lk1607 Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’  
Lk1608 The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.  
Lk1609 And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings.  
Lk1610 “One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.  
Lk1611 If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?  
Lk1612 And if you have not been faithful in that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?  
Lk1613 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”  
Lk1614 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him.  
Lk1615 And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.  
Lk1616 “The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God is preached, and everyone forces his way into it.  
Lk1617 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one dot of the Law to become void.  
Lk1618 “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.  
Lk1619 “There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.  
Lk1620 And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,  
Lk1621 who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.  
Lk1622 The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried,  
Lk1623 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.  
Lk1624 And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’  
Lk1625 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.  
Lk1626 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’  
Lk1627 And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father’s house—  
Lk1628 for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’  
Lk1629 But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’  
Lk1630 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’  
Lk1631 He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’”  
Lk1701 And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come!  
Lk1702 It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.  
Lk1703 Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,  
Lk1704 and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”  
Lk1705 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”  
Lk1706 And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.  
Lk1707 “Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’?  
Lk1708 Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me, and dress properly, and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink’?  
Lk1709 Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded?  
Lk1710 So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’”  
Lk1711 On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee.  
Lk1712 And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance  
Lk1713 and lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.”  
Lk1714 When he saw them he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went they were cleansed.  
Lk1715 Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice;  
Lk1716 and he fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan.  
Lk1717 Then Jesus answered, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine?  
Lk1718 Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?”  
Lk1719 And he said to him, “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.”  
Lk1720 Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed,  
Lk1721 nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”  
Lk1722 And he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.  
Lk1723 And they will say to you, ‘Look, there!’ or ‘Look, here!’ Do not go out or follow them.  
Lk1724 For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.  
Lk1725 But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.  
Lk1726 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.  
Lk1727 They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.  
Lk1728 Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,  
Lk1729 but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—  
Lk1730 so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.  
Lk1731 On that day, let the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back.  
Lk1732 Remember Lot’s wife.  
Lk1733 Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it.  
Lk1734 I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left.  
Lk1735 There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left.”  
Lk1736  
Lk1737 And they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.”  
Lk1801 And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.  
Lk1802 He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.  
Lk1803 And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’  
Lk1804 For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,  
Lk1805 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’”  
Lk1806 And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says.  
Lk1807 And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?  
Lk1808 I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”  
Lk1809 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt:  
Lk1810 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.  
Lk1811 The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.  
Lk1812 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’  
Lk1813 But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’  
Lk1814 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”  
Lk1815 Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.  
Lk1816 But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.  
Lk1817 Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”  
Lk1818 And a ruler asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”  
Lk1819 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.  
Lk1820 You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, Do not murder, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother.’”  
Lk1821 And he said, “All these I have kept from my youth.”  
Lk1822 When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”  
Lk1823 But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was extremely rich.  
Lk1824 Jesus, seeing that he had become sad, said, “How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!  
Lk1825 For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”  
Lk1826 Those who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”  
Lk1827 But he said, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”  
Lk1828 And Peter said, “See, we have left our homes and followed you.”  
Lk1829 And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,  
Lk1830 who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the age to come eternal life.”  
Lk1831 And taking the twelve, he said to them, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished.  
Lk1832 For he will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon.  
Lk1833 And after flogging him, they will kill him, and on the third day he will rise.”  
Lk1834 But they understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what was said.  
Lk1835 As he drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging.  
Lk1836 And hearing a crowd going by, he inquired what this meant.  
Lk1837 They told him, “Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.”  
Lk1838 And he cried out, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”  
Lk1839 And those who were in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”  
Lk1840 And Jesus stopped and commanded him to be brought to him. And when he came near, he asked him,  
Lk1841 “What do you want me to do for you?” He said, “Lord, let me recover my sight.”  
Lk1842 And Jesus said to him, “Recover your sight; your faith has made you well.”  
Lk1843 And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him, glorifying God. And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God.  
Lk1901 He entered Jericho and was passing through.  
Lk1902 And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich.  
Lk1903 And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small in stature.  
Lk1904 So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way.  
Lk1905 And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.”  
Lk1906 So he hurried and came down and received him joyfully.  
Lk1907 And when they saw it, they all grumbled, “He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”  
Lk1908 And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.”  
Lk1909 And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham.  
Lk1910 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”  
Lk1911 As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately.  
Lk1912 He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.  
Lk1913 Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’  
Lk1914 But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’  
Lk1915 When he returned, having received the kingdom, he ordered these servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by doing business.  
Lk1916 The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.’  
Lk1917 And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’  
Lk1918 And the second came, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made five minas.’  
Lk1919 And he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’  
Lk1920 Then another came, saying, ‘Lord, here is your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief;  
Lk1921 for I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You take what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’  
Lk1922 He said to him, ‘I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?  
Lk1923 Why then did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’  
Lk1924 And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’  
Lk1925 And they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’  
Lk1926 ‘I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.  
Lk1927 But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me.’”  
Lk1928 And when he had said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.  
Lk1929 When he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples,  
Lk1930 saying, “Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here.  
Lk1931 If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say this: ‘The Lord has need of it.’”  
Lk1932 So those who were sent went away and found it just as he had told them.  
Lk1933 And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”  
Lk1934 And they said, “The Lord has need of it.”  
Lk1935 And they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it.  
Lk1936 And as he rode along, they spread their cloaks on the road.  
Lk1937 As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen,  
Lk1938 saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”  
Lk1939 And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.”  
Lk1940 He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”  
Lk1941 And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it,  
Lk1942 saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.  
Lk1943 For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side  
Lk1944 and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”  
Lk1945 And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold,  
Lk1946 saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”  
Lk1947 And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him,  
Lk1948 but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.  
Lk2001 One day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up  
Lk2002 and said to him, “Tell us by what authority you do these things, or who it is that gave you this authority.”  
Lk2003 He answered them, “I also will ask you a question. Now tell me,  
Lk2004 was the baptism of John from heaven or from man?”  
Lk2005 And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’  
Lk2006 But if we say, ‘From man,’ all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”  
Lk2007 So they answered that they did not know where it came from.  
Lk2008 And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”  
Lk2009 And he began to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while.  
Lk2010 When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.  
Lk2011 And he sent another servant. But they also beat and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.  
Lk2012 And he sent yet a third. This one also they wounded and cast out.  
Lk2013 Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’  
Lk2014 But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.’  
Lk2015 And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?  
Lk2016 He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Surely not!”  
Lk2017 But he looked directly at them and said, “What then is this that is written: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?  
Lk2018 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”  
Lk2019 The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.  
Lk2020 So they watched him and sent spies, who pretended to be sincere, that they might catch him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the authority and jurisdiction of the governor.  
Lk2021 So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God.  
Lk2022 Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?”  
Lk2023 But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them,  
Lk2024 “Show me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have?” They said, “Caesar’s.”  
Lk2025 He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”  
Lk2026 And they were not able in the presence of the people to catch him in what he said, but marveling at his answer they became silent.  
Lk2027 There came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection,  
Lk2028 and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.  
Lk2029 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children.  
Lk2030 And the second  
Lk2031 and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died.  
Lk2032 Afterward the woman also died.  
Lk2033 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.”  
Lk2034 And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,  
Lk2035 but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,  
Lk2036 for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.  
Lk2037 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.  
Lk2038 Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.”  
Lk2039 Then some of the scribes answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well.”  
Lk2040 For they no longer dared to ask him any question.  
Lk2041 But he said to them, “How can they say that the Christ is David’s son?  
Lk2042 For David himself says in the Book of Psalms, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,  
Lk2043 until I make your enemies your footstool.”’  
Lk2044 David thus calls him Lord, so how is he his son?”  
Lk2045 And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples,  
Lk2046 “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,  
Lk2047 who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”  
Lk2101 Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box,  
Lk2102 and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.  
Lk2103 And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them.  
Lk2104 For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”  
Lk2105 And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said,  
Lk2106 “As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”  
Lk2107 And they asked him, “Teacher, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when these things are about to take place?”  
Lk2108 And he said, “See that you are not led astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time is at hand!’ Do not go after them.  
Lk2109 And when you hear of wars and tumults, do not be terrified, for these things must first take place, but the end will not be at once.”  
Lk2110 Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.  
Lk2111 There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.  
Lk2112 But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake.  
Lk2113 This will be your opportunity to bear witness.  
Lk2114 Settle it therefore in your minds not to meditate beforehand how to answer,  
Lk2115 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.  
Lk2116 You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.  
Lk2117 You will be hated by all for my name’s sake.  
Lk2118 But not a hair of your head will perish.  
Lk2119 By your endurance you will gain your lives.  
Lk2120 “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.  
Lk2121 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it,  
Lk2122 for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.  
Lk2123 Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people.  
Lk2124 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.  
Lk2125 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves,  
Lk2126 people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.  
Lk2127 And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.  
Lk2128 Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”  
Lk2129 And he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree, and all the trees.  
Lk2130 As soon as they come out in leaf, you see for yourselves and know that the summer is already near.  
Lk2131 So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near.  
Lk2132 Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all has taken place.  
Lk2133 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.  
Lk2134 “But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.  
Lk2135 For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth.  
Lk2136 But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.”  
Lk2137 And every day he was teaching in the temple, but at night he went out and lodged on the mount called Olivet.  
Lk2138 And early in the morning all the people came to him in the temple to hear him.  
Lk2201 Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread drew near, which is called the Passover.  
Lk2202 And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to put him to death, for they feared the people.  
Lk2203 Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve.  
Lk2204 He went away and conferred with the chief priests and officers how he might betray him to them.  
Lk2205 And they were glad, and agreed to give him money.  
Lk2206 So he consented and sought an opportunity to betray him to them in the absence of a crowd.  
Lk2207 Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.  
Lk2208 So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat it.”  
Lk2209 They said to him, “Where will you have us prepare it?”  
Lk2210 He said to them, “Behold, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house that he enters  
Lk2211 and tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’  
Lk2212 And he will show you a large upper room furnished; prepare it there.”  
Lk2213 And they went and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.  
Lk2214 And when the hour came, he reclined at table, and the apostles with him.  
Lk2215 And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.  
Lk2216 For I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”  
Lk2217 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he said, “Take this, and divide it among yourselves.  
Lk2218 For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”  
Lk2219 And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”  
Lk2220 And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.  
Lk2221 But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table.  
Lk2222 For the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”  
Lk2223 And they began to question one another, which of them it could be who was going to do this.  
Lk2224 A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.  
Lk2225 And he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors.  
Lk2226 But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves.  
Lk2227 For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves.  
Lk2228 “You are those who have stayed with me in my trials,  
Lk2229 and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom,  
Lk2230 that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.  
Lk2231 “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat,  
Lk2232 but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”  
Lk2233 Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death.”  
Lk2234 Jesus said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow this day, until you deny three times that you know me.”  
Lk2235 And he said to them, “When I sent you out with no moneybag or knapsack or sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “Nothing.”  
Lk2236 He said to them, “But now let the one who has a moneybag take it, and likewise a knapsack. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.  
Lk2237 For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in me: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors.’ For what is written about me has its fulfillment.”  
Lk2238 And they said, “Look, Lord, here are two swords.” And he said to them, “It is enough.”  
Lk2239 And he came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him.  
Lk2240 And when he came to the place, he said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”  
Lk2241 And he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and knelt down and prayed,  
Lk2242 saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”  
Lk2243 And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him.  
Lk2244 And being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.  
Lk2245 And when he rose from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping for sorrow,  
Lk2246 and he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”  
Lk2247 While he was still speaking, there came a crowd, and the man called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He drew near to Jesus to kiss him,  
Lk2248 but Jesus said to him, “Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?”  
Lk2249 And when those who were around him saw what would follow, they said, “Lord, shall we strike with the sword?”  
Lk2250 And one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear.  
Lk2251 But Jesus said, “No more of this!” And he touched his ear and healed him.  
Lk2252 Then Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders, who had come out against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?  
Lk2253 When I was with you day after day in the temple, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”  
Lk2254 Then they seized him and led him away, bringing him into the high priest’s house, and Peter was following at a distance.  
Lk2255 And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.  
Lk2256 Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the light and looking closely at him, said, “This man also was with him.”  
Lk2257 But he denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know him.”  
Lk2258 And a little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not.”  
Lk2259 And after an interval of about an hour still another insisted, saying, “Certainly this man also was with him, for he too is a Galilean.”  
Lk2260 But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about.” And immediately, while he was still speaking, the rooster crowed.  
Lk2261 And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the saying of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”  
Lk2262 And he went out and wept bitterly.  
Lk2263 Now the men who were holding Jesus in custody were mocking him as they beat him.  
Lk2264 They also blindfolded him and kept asking him, “Prophesy! Who is it that struck you?”  
Lk2265 And they said many other things against him, blaspheming him.  
Lk2266 When day came, the assembly of the elders of the people gathered together, both chief priests and scribes. And they led him away to their council, and they said,  
Lk2267 “If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe,  
Lk2268 and if I ask you, you will not answer.  
Lk2269 But from now on the Son of Man shall be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”  
Lk2270 So they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” And he said to them, “You say that I am.”  
Lk2271 Then they said, “What further testimony do we need? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips.”  
Lk2301 Then the whole company of them arose and brought him before Pilate.  
Lk2302 And they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”  
Lk2303 And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.”  
Lk2304 Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no guilt in this man.”  
Lk2305 But they were urgent, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee even to this place.”  
Lk2306 When Pilate heard this, he asked whether the man was a Galilean.  
Lk2307 And when he learned that he belonged to Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him over to Herod, who was himself in Jerusalem at that time.  
Lk2308 When Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had long desired to see him, because he had heard about him, and he was hoping to see some sign done by him.  
Lk2309 So he questioned him at some length, but he made no answer.  
Lk2310 The chief priests and the scribes stood by, vehemently accusing him.  
Lk2311 And Herod with his soldiers treated him with contempt and mocked him. Then, arraying him in splendid clothing, he sent him back to Pilate.  
Lk2312 And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before this they had been at enmity with each other.  
Lk2313 Pilate then called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,  
Lk2314 and said to them, “You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. And after examining him before you, behold, I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him.  
Lk2315 Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, nothing deserving death has been done by him.  
Lk2316 I will therefore punish and release him.”  
Lk2317  
Lk2318 But they all cried out together, “Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas”—  
Lk2319 a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder.  
Lk2320 Pilate addressed them once more, desiring to release Jesus,  
Lk2321 but they kept shouting, “Crucify, crucify him!”  
Lk2322 A third time he said to them, “Why? What evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and release him.”  
Lk2323 But they were urgent, demanding with loud cries that he should be crucified. And their voices prevailed.  
Lk2324 So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted.  
Lk2325 He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus over to their will.  
Lk2326 And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.  
Lk2327 And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him.  
Lk2328 But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.  
Lk2329 For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’  
Lk2330 Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’  
Lk2331 For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”  
Lk2332 Two others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him.  
Lk2333 And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.  
Lk2334 And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.  
Lk2335 And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!”  
Lk2336 The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine  
Lk2337 and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”  
Lk2338 There was also an inscription over him, “This is the King of the Jews.”  
Lk2339 One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!”  
Lk2340 But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?  
Lk2341 And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.”  
Lk2342 And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”  
Lk2343 And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”  
Lk2344 It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour,  
Lk2345 while the sun’s light failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two.  
Lk2346 Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.  
Lk2347 Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God, saying, “Certainly this man was innocent!”  
Lk2348 And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.  
Lk2349 And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance watching these things.  
Lk2350 Now there was a man named Joseph, from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man,  
Lk2351 who had not consented to their decision and action; and he was looking for the kingdom of God.  
Lk2352 This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.  
Lk2353 Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud and laid him in a tomb cut in stone, where no one had ever yet been laid.  
Lk2354 It was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning.  
Lk2355 The women who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid.  
Lk2356 Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.  
Lk2401 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.  
Lk2402 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,  
Lk2403 but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.  
Lk2404 While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel.  
Lk2405 And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead?  
Lk2406 He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee,  
Lk2407 that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.”  
Lk2408 And they remembered his words,  
Lk2409 and returning from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.  
Lk2410 Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles,  
Lk2411 but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.  
Lk2412 But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened.  
Lk2413 That very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem,  
Lk2414 and they were talking with each other about all these things that had happened.  
Lk2415 While they were talking and discussing together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them.  
Lk2416 But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.  
Lk2417 And he said to them, “What is this conversation that you are holding with each other as you walk?” And they stood still, looking sad.  
Lk2418 Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things that have happened there in these days?”  
Lk2419 And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,  
Lk2420 and how our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.  
Lk2421 But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things happened.  
Lk2422 Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the tomb early in the morning,  
Lk2423 and when they did not find his body, they came back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.  
Lk2424 Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women had said, but him they did not see.”  
Lk2425 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!  
Lk2426 Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?”  
Lk2427 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.  
Lk2428 So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He acted as if he were going farther,  
Lk2429 but they urged him strongly, saying, “Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent.” So he went in to stay with them.  
Lk2430 When he was at table with them, he took the bread and blessed and broke it and gave it to them.  
Lk2431 And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. And he vanished from their sight.  
Lk2432 They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?”  
Lk2433 And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem. And they found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together,  
Lk2434 saying, “The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!”  
Lk2435 Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of the bread.  
Lk2436 As they were talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace to you!”  
Lk2437 But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit.  
Lk2438 And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts?  
Lk2439 See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”  
Lk2440 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.  
Lk2441 And while they still disbelieved for joy and were marveling, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?”  
Lk2442 They gave him a piece of broiled fish,  
Lk2443 and he took it and ate before them.  
Lk2444 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”  
Lk2445 Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,  
Lk2446 and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,  
Lk2447 and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.  
Lk2448 You are witnesses of these things.  
Lk2449 And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”  
Lk2450 And he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them.  
Lk2451 While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven.  
Lk2452 And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,  
Lk2453 and were continually in the temple blessing God.  
Jn0101 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  
Jn0102 He was in the beginning with God.  
Jn0103 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.  
Jn0104 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.  
Jn0105 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.  
Jn0106 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.  
Jn0107 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.  
Jn0108 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.  
Jn0109 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.  
Jn0110 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.  
Jn0111 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.  
Jn0112 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,  
Jn0113 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.  
Jn0114 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.  
Jn0115 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”)  
Jn0116 For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.  
Jn0117 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.  
Jn0118 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.  
Jn0119 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”  
Jn0120 He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.”  
Jn0121 And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”  
Jn0122 So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”  
Jn0123 He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”  
Jn0124 (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)  
Jn0125 They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”  
Jn0126 John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know,  
Jn0127 even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.”  
Jn0128 These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.  
Jn0129 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!  
Jn0130 This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.’  
Jn0131 I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.”  
Jn0132 And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.  
Jn0133 I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’  
Jn0134 And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.”  
Jn0135 The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples,  
Jn0136 and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”  
Jn0137 The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus.  
Jn0138 Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, “What are you seeking?” And they said to him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?”  
Jn0139 He said to them, “Come and you will see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.  
Jn0140 One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother.  
Jn0141 He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ).  
Jn0142 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas” (which means Peter).  
Jn0143 The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.”  
Jn0144 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.  
Jn0145 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”  
Jn0146 Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”  
Jn0147 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”  
Jn0148 Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”  
Jn0149 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”  
Jn0150 Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”  
Jn0151 And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”  
Jn0201 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.  
Jn0202 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.  
Jn0203 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”  
Jn0204 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.”  
Jn0205 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”  
Jn0206 Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.  
Jn0207 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.  
Jn0208 And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it.  
Jn0209 When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom  
Jn0210 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”  
Jn0211 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.  
Jn0212 After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.  
Jn0213 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.  
Jn0214 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there.  
Jn0215 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.  
Jn0216 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.”  
Jn0217 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”  
Jn0218 So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?”  
Jn0219 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”  
Jn0220 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?”  
Jn0221 But he was speaking about the temple of his body.  
Jn0222 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.  
Jn0223 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.  
Jn0224 But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people  
Jn0225 and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.  
Jn0301 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.  
Jn0302 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”  
Jn0303 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”  
Jn0304 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”  
Jn0305 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.  
Jn0306 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.  
Jn0307 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’  
Jn0308 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”  
Jn0309 Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?”  
Jn0310 Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?  
Jn0311 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.  
Jn0312 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?  
Jn0313 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.  
Jn0314 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,  
Jn0315 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.  
Jn0316 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.  
Jn0317 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.  
Jn0318 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.  
Jn0319 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.  
Jn0320 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.  
Jn0321 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”  
Jn0322 After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing.  
Jn0323 John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized  
Jn0324 (for John had not yet been put in prison).  
Jn0325 Now a discussion arose between some of John’s disciples and a Jew over purification.  
Jn0326 And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.”  
Jn0327 John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.  
Jn0328 You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’  
Jn0329 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.  
Jn0330 He must increase, but I must decrease.”  
Jn0331 He who comes from above is above all. He who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks in an earthly way. He who comes from heaven is above all.  
Jn0332 He bears witness to what he has seen and heard, yet no one receives his testimony.  
Jn0333 Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.  
Jn0334 For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.  
Jn0335 The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.  
Jn0336 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.  
Jn0401 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John  
Jn0402 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples),  
Jn0403 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.  
Jn0404 And he had to pass through Samaria.  
Jn0405 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.  
Jn0406 Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.  
Jn0407 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”  
Jn0408 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)  
Jn0409 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)  
Jn0410 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”  
Jn0411 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?  
Jn0412 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”  
Jn0413 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,  
Jn0414 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”  
Jn0415 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”  
Jn0416 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”  
Jn0417 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’;  
Jn0418 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”  
Jn0419 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.  
Jn0420 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”  
Jn0421 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.  
Jn0422 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.  
Jn0423 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.  
Jn0424 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”  
Jn0425 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.”  
Jn0426 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”  
Jn0427 Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”  
Jn0428 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people,  
Jn0429 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”  
Jn0430 They went out of the town and were coming to him.  
Jn0431 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”  
Jn0432 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”  
Jn0433 So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”  
Jn0434 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.  
Jn0435 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.  
Jn0436 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.  
Jn0437 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’  
Jn0438 I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”  
Jn0439 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”  
Jn0440 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.  
Jn0441 And many more believed because of his word.  
Jn0442 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”  
Jn0443 After the two days he departed for Galilee.  
Jn0444 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)  
Jn0445 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast.  
Jn0446 So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill.  
Jn0447 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.  
Jn0448 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.”  
Jn0449 The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”  
Jn0450 Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.  
Jn0451 As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering.  
Jn0452 So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”  
Jn0453 The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household.  
Jn0454 This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.  
Jn0501 After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.  
Jn0502 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades.  
Jn0503 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed.  
Jn0504  
Jn0505 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.  
Jn0506 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?”  
Jn0507 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.”  
Jn0508 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.”  
Jn0509 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath.  
Jn0510 So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.”  
Jn0511 But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’”  
Jn0512 They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?”  
Jn0513 Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place.  
Jn0514 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.”  
Jn0515 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him.  
Jn0516 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.  
Jn0517 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”  
Jn0518 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.  
Jn0519 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.  
Jn0520 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel.  
Jn0521 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.  
Jn0522 For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,  
Jn0523 that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.  
Jn0524 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.  
Jn0525 “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.  
Jn0526 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.  
Jn0527 And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.  
Jn0528 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice  
Jn0529 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.  
Jn0530 “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.  
Jn0531 If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true.  
Jn0532 There is another who bears witness about me, and I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true.  
Jn0533 You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth.  
Jn0534 Not that the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.  
Jn0535 He was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.  
Jn0536 But the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.  
Jn0537 And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen,  
Jn0538 and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.  
Jn0539 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,  
Jn0540 yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.  
Jn0541 I do not receive glory from people.  
Jn0542 But I know that you do not have the love of God within you.  
Jn0543 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.  
Jn0544 How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?  
Jn0545 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope.  
Jn0546 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.  
Jn0547 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”  
Jn0601 After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.  
Jn0602 And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.  
Jn0603 Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples.  
Jn0604 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.  
Jn0605 Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?”  
Jn0606 He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.  
Jn0607 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.”  
Jn0608 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him,  
Jn0609 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?”  
Jn0610 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.  
Jn0611 Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted.  
Jn0612 And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.”  
Jn0613 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten.  
Jn0614 When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”  
Jn0615 Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.  
Jn0616 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,  
Jn0617 got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.  
Jn0618 The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing.  
Jn0619 When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened.  
Jn0620 But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.”  
Jn0621 Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.  
Jn0622 On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.  
Jn0623 Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.  
Jn0624 So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.  
Jn0625 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”  
Jn0626 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.  
Jn0627 Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”  
Jn0628 Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?”  
Jn0629 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”  
Jn0630 So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?  
Jn0631 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”  
Jn0632 Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.  
Jn0633 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”  
Jn0634 They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”  
Jn0635 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.  
Jn0636 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.  
Jn0637 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.  
Jn0638 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.  
Jn0639 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.  
Jn0640 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”  
Jn0641 So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”  
Jn0642 They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”  
Jn0643 Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.  
Jn0644 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.  
Jn0645 It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—  
Jn0646 not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.  
Jn0647 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.  
Jn0648 I am the bread of life.  
Jn0649 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.  
Jn0650 This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.  
Jn0651 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”  
Jn0652 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”  
Jn0653 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.  
Jn0654 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.  
Jn0655 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.  
Jn0656 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.  
Jn0657 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.  
Jn0658 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”  
Jn0659 Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.  
Jn0660 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”  
Jn0661 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this?  
Jn0662 Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?  
Jn0663 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.  
Jn0664 But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)  
Jn0665 And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”  
Jn0666 After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.  
Jn0667 So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?”  
Jn0668 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life,  
Jn0669 and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”  
Jn0670 Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.”  
Jn0671 He spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.  
Jn0701 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.  
Jn0702 Now the Jews’ Feast of Booths was at hand.  
Jn0703 So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.  
Jn0704 For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”  
Jn0705 For not even his brothers believed in him.  
Jn0706 Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.  
Jn0707 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.  
Jn0708 You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.”  
Jn0709 After saying this, he remained in Galilee.  
Jn0710 But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.  
Jn0711 The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?”  
Jn0712 And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, he is leading the people astray.”  
Jn0713 Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.  
Jn0714 About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching.  
Jn0715 The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?”  
Jn0716 So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.  
Jn0717 If anyone’s will is to do God’s will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.  
Jn0718 The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.  
Jn0719 Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”  
Jn0720 The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?”  
Jn0721 Jesus answered them, “I did one work, and you all marvel at it.  
Jn0722 Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.  
Jn0723 If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man’s whole body well?  
Jn0724 Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”  
Jn0725 Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom they seek to kill?  
Jn0726 And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?  
Jn0727 But we know where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from.”  
Jn0728 So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.  
Jn0729 I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”  
Jn0730 So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.  
Jn0731 Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”  
Jn0732 The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.  
Jn0733 Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.  
Jn0734 You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.”  
Jn0735 The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?  
Jn0736 What does he mean by saying, ‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”  
Jn0737 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.  
Jn0738 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”  
Jn0739 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.  
Jn0740 When they heard these words, some of the people said, “This really is the Prophet.”  
Jn0741 Others said, “This is the Christ.” But some said, “Is the Christ to come from Galilee?  
Jn0742 Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”  
Jn0743 So there was a division among the people over him.  
Jn0744 Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.  
Jn0745 The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?”  
Jn0746 The officers answered, “No one ever spoke like this man!”  
Jn0747 The Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived?  
Jn0748 Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?  
Jn0749 But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”  
Jn0750 Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them,  
Jn0751 “Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”  
Jn0752 They replied, “Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”  
Jn0753 [[They went each to his own house,  
Jn0801 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.  
Jn0802 Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.  
Jn0803 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst  
Jn0804 they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.  
Jn0805 Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?”  
Jn0806 This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.  
Jn0807 And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”  
Jn0808 And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground.  
Jn0809 But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.  
Jn0810 Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”  
Jn0811 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.” ]]  
Jn0812 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”  
Jn0813 So the Pharisees said to him, “You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.”  
Jn0814 Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.  
Jn0815 You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.  
Jn0816 Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.  
Jn0817 In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true.  
Jn0818 I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”  
Jn0819 They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”  
Jn0820 These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.  
Jn0821 So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”  
Jn0822 So the Jews said, “Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”  
Jn0823 He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.  
Jn0824 I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”  
Jn0825 So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.  
Jn0826 I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”  
Jn0827 They did not understand that he had been speaking to them about the Father.  
Jn0828 So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.  
Jn0829 And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”  
Jn0830 As he was saying these things, many believed in him.  
Jn0831 So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,  
Jn0832 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”  
Jn0833 They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”  
Jn0834 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.  
Jn0835 The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever.  
Jn0836 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.  
Jn0837 I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.  
Jn0838 I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”  
Jn0839 They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works Abraham did,  
Jn0840 but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.  
Jn0841 You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father—even God.”  
Jn0842 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.  
Jn0843 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.  
Jn0844 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.  
Jn0845 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.  
Jn0846 Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?  
Jn0847 Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”  
Jn0848 The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?”  
Jn0849 Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.  
Jn0850 Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge.  
Jn0851 Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.”  
Jn0852 The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’  
Jn0853 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?”  
Jn0854 Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’  
Jn0855 But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.  
Jn0856 Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.”  
Jn0857 So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”  
Jn0858 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”  
Jn0859 So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.  
Jn0901 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.  
Jn0902 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”  
Jn0903 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.  
Jn0904 We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.  
Jn0905 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”  
Jn0906 Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man’s eyes with the mud  
Jn0907 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.  
Jn0908 The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”  
Jn0909 Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.”  
Jn0910 So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”  
Jn0911 He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.”  
Jn0912 They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”  
Jn0913 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.  
Jn0914 Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.  
Jn0915 So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”  
Jn0916 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them.  
Jn0917 So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”  
Jn0918 The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight  
Jn0919 and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”  
Jn0920 His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.  
Jn0921 But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.”  
Jn0922 (His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.)  
Jn0923 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”  
Jn0924 So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”  
Jn0925 He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”  
Jn0926 They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”  
Jn0927 He answered them, “I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?”  
Jn0928 And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.  
Jn0929 We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.”  
Jn0930 The man answered, “Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.  
Jn0931 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.  
Jn0932 Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.  
Jn0933 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”  
Jn0934 They answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out.  
Jn0935 Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”  
Jn0936 He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”  
Jn0937 Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you.”  
Jn0938 He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.  
Jn0939 Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”  
Jn0940 Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”  
Jn0941 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.  
Jn1001 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.  
Jn1002 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.  
Jn1003 To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.  
Jn1004 When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.  
Jn1005 A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”  
Jn1006 This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.  
Jn1007 So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.  
Jn1008 All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.  
Jn1009 I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.  
Jn1010 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.  
Jn1011 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.  
Jn1012 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.  
Jn1013 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.  
Jn1014 I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,  
Jn1015 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.  
Jn1016 And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.  
Jn1017 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.  
Jn1018 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”  
Jn1019 There was again a division among the Jews because of these words.  
Jn1020 Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?”  
Jn1021 Others said, “These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”  
Jn1022 At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter,  
Jn1023 and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the colonnade of Solomon.  
Jn1024 So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”  
Jn1025 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness about me,  
Jn1026 but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep.  
Jn1027 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.  
Jn1028 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.  
Jn1029 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.  
Jn1030 I and the Father are one.”  
Jn1031 The Jews picked up stones again to stone him.  
Jn1032 Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?”  
Jn1033 The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”  
Jn1034 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?  
Jn1035 If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—  
Jn1036 do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?  
Jn1037 If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me;  
Jn1038 but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”  
Jn1039 Again they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.  
Jn1040 He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.  
Jn1041 And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”  
Jn1042 And many believed in him there.  
Jn1101 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.  
Jn1102 It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.  
Jn1103 So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.”  
Jn1104 But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”  
Jn1105 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.  
Jn1106 So, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.  
Jn1107 Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”  
Jn1108 The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?”  
Jn1109 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.  
Jn1110 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”  
Jn1111 After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.”  
Jn1112 The disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”  
Jn1113 Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep.  
Jn1114 Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died,  
Jn1115 and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”  
Jn1116 So Thomas, called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with him.”  
Jn1117 Now when Jesus came, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days.  
Jn1118 Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles off,  
Jn1119 and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.  
Jn1120 So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house.  
Jn1121 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.  
Jn1122 But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.”  
Jn1123 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”  
Jn1124 Martha said to him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”  
Jn1125 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,  
Jn1126 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”  
Jn1127 She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”  
Jn1128 When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”  
Jn1129 And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him.  
Jn1130 Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him.  
Jn1131 When the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.  
Jn1132 Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”  
Jn1133 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled.  
Jn1134 And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.”  
Jn1135 Jesus wept.  
Jn1136 So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”  
Jn1137 But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?”  
Jn1138 Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.  
Jn1139 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.”  
Jn1140 Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”  
Jn1141 So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me.  
Jn1142 I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”  
Jn1143 When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.”  
Jn1144 The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”  
Jn1145 Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,  
Jn1146 but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.  
Jn1147 So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.  
Jn1148 If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”  
Jn1149 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all.  
Jn1150 Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish.”  
Jn1151 He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,  
Jn1152 and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.  
Jn1153 So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.  
Jn1154 Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.  
Jn1155 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.  
Jn1156 They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think? That he will not come to the feast at all?”  
Jn1157 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest him.  
Jn1201 Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.  
Jn1202 So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.  
Jn1203 Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.  
Jn1204 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said,  
Jn1205 “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”  
Jn1206 He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.  
Jn1207 Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial.  
Jn1208 For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”  
Jn1209 When the large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came, not only on account of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.  
Jn1210 So the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well,  
Jn1211 because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.  
Jn1212 The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.  
Jn1213 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!”  
Jn1214 And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,  
Jn1215 “Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt!”  
Jn1216 His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him.  
Jn1217 The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness.  
Jn1218 The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign.  
Jn1219 So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”  
Jn1220 Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks.  
Jn1221 So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”  
Jn1222 Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.  
Jn1223 And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.  
Jn1224 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.  
Jn1225 Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.  
Jn1226 If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.  
Jn1227 “Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.  
Jn1228 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”  
Jn1229 The crowd that stood there and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”  
Jn1230 Jesus answered, “This voice has come for your sake, not mine.  
Jn1231 Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.  
Jn1232 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”  
Jn1233 He said this to show by what kind of death he was going to die.  
Jn1234 So the crowd answered him, “We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”  
Jn1235 So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.  
Jn1236 While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.  
Jn1237 Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,  
Jn1238 so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”  
Jn1239 Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said,  
Jn1240 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.”  
Jn1241 Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him.  
Jn1242 Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;  
Jn1243 for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.  
Jn1244 And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.  
Jn1245 And whoever sees me sees him who sent me.  
Jn1246 I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.  
Jn1247 If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.  
Jn1248 The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.  
Jn1249 For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak.  
Jn1250 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”  
Jn1301 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.  
Jn1302 During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,  
Jn1303 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,  
Jn1304 rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist.  
Jn1305 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.  
Jn1306 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?”  
Jn1307 Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.”  
Jn1308 Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”  
Jn1309 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!”  
Jn1310 Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.”  
Jn1311 For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”  
Jn1312 When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you?  
Jn1313 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.  
Jn1314 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.  
Jn1315 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.  
Jn1316 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.  
Jn1317 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.  
Jn1318 I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’  
Jn1319 I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he.  
Jn1320 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”  
Jn1321 After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”  
Jn1322 The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke.  
Jn1323 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table at Jesus’ side,  
Jn1324 so Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus of whom he was speaking.  
Jn1325 So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus, said to him, “Lord, who is it?”  
Jn1326 Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.  
Jn1327 Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.”  
Jn1328 Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him.  
Jn1329 Some thought that, because Judas had the moneybag, Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.  
Jn1330 So, after receiving the morsel of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night.  
Jn1331 When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.  
Jn1332 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once.  
Jn1333 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’  
Jn1334 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.  
Jn1335 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”  
Jn1336 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.”  
Jn1337 Peter said to him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”  
Jn1338 Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.  
Jn1401 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.  
Jn1402 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?  
Jn1403 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.  
Jn1404 And you know the way to where I am going.”  
Jn1405 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”  
Jn1406 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.  
Jn1407 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”  
Jn1408 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.”  
Jn1409 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?  
Jn1410 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.  
Jn1411 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.  
Jn1412 “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.  
Jn1413 Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  
Jn1414 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.  
Jn1415 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.  
Jn1416 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,  
Jn1417 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.  
Jn1418 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.  
Jn1419 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.  
Jn1420 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.  
Jn1421 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”  
Jn1422 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?”  
Jn1423 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.  
Jn1424 Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.  
Jn1425 “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you.  
Jn1426 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.  
Jn1427 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.  
Jn1428 You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.  
Jn1429 And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe.  
Jn1430 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me,  
Jn1431 but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.  
Jn1501 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.  
Jn1502 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.  
Jn1503 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.  
Jn1504 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.  
Jn1505 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.  
Jn1506 If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.  
Jn1507 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.  
Jn1508 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.  
Jn1509 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.  
Jn1510 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.  
Jn1511 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.  
Jn1512 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.  
Jn1513 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.  
Jn1514 You are my friends if you do what I command you.  
Jn1515 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.  
Jn1516 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.  
Jn1517 These things I command you, so that you will love one another.  
Jn1518 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.  
Jn1519 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.  
Jn1520 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.  
Jn1521 But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.  
Jn1522 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.  
Jn1523 Whoever hates me hates my Father also.  
Jn1524 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.  
Jn1525 But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’  
Jn1526 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.  
Jn1527 And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.  
Jn1601 “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away.  
Jn1602 They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.  
Jn1603 And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.  
Jn1604 But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.  
Jn1605 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’  
Jn1606 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart.  
Jn1607 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.  
Jn1608 And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:  
Jn1609 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;  
Jn1610 concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer;  
Jn1611 concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.  
Jn1612 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.  
Jn1613 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.  
Jn1614 He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you.  
Jn1615 All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.  
Jn1616 “A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me.”  
Jn1617 So some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?”  
Jn1618 So they were saying, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? We do not know what he is talking about.”  
Jn1619 Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’?  
Jn1620 Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.  
Jn1621 When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.  
Jn1622 So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.  
Jn1623 In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.  
Jn1624 Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.  
Jn1625 “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.  
Jn1626 In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf;  
Jn1627 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.  
Jn1628 I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”  
Jn1629 His disciples said, “Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not using figurative speech!  
Jn1630 Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God.”  
Jn1631 Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe?  
Jn1632 Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.  
Jn1633 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”  
Jn1701 When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,  
Jn1702 since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.  
Jn1703 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.  
Jn1704 I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.  
Jn1705 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.  
Jn1706 “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.  
Jn1707 Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.  
Jn1708 For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.  
Jn1709 I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.  
Jn1710 All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.  
Jn1711 And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.  
Jn1712 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.  
Jn1713 But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.  
Jn1714 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.  
Jn1715 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.  
Jn1716 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.  
Jn1717 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.  
Jn1718 As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.  
Jn1719 And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.  
Jn1720 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,  
Jn1721 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.  
Jn1722 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,  
Jn1723 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.  
Jn1724 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.  
Jn1725 O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.  
Jn1726 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”  
Jn1801 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples across the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered.  
Jn1802 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.  
Jn1803 So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons.  
Jn1804 Then Jesus, knowing all that would happen to him, came forward and said to them, “Whom do you seek?”  
Jn1805 They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.  
Jn1806 When Jesus said to them, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground.  
Jn1807 So he asked them again, “Whom do you seek?” And they said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”  
Jn1808 Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. So, if you seek me, let these men go.”  
Jn1809 This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken: “Of those whom you gave me I have lost not one.”  
Jn1810 Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant and cut off his right ear. (The servant’s name was Malchus.)  
Jn1811 So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?”  
Jn1812 So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound him.  
Jn1813 First they led him to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.  
Jn1814 It was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it would be expedient that one man should die for the people.  
Jn1815 Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Since that disciple was known to the high priest, he entered with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest,  
Jn1816 but Peter stood outside at the door. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the servant girl who kept watch at the door, and brought Peter in.  
Jn1817 The servant girl at the door said to Peter, “You also are not one of this man’s disciples, are you?” He said, “I am not.”  
Jn1818 Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold, and they were standing and warming themselves. Peter also was with them, standing and warming himself.  
Jn1819 The high priest then questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.  
Jn1820 Jesus answered him, “I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret.  
Jn1821 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them; they know what I said.”  
Jn1822 When he had said these things, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, “Is that how you answer the high priest?”  
Jn1823 Jesus answered him, “If what I said is wrong, bear witness about the wrong; but if what I said is right, why do you strike me?”  
Jn1824 Annas then sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.  
Jn1825 Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, “You also are not one of his disciples, are you?” He denied it and said, “I am not.”  
Jn1826 One of the servants of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Did I not see you in the garden with him?”  
Jn1827 Peter again denied it, and at once a rooster crowed.  
Jn1828 Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor’s headquarters. It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor’s headquarters, so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover.  
Jn1829 So Pilate went outside to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this man?”  
Jn1830 They answered him, “If this man were not doing evil, we would not have delivered him over to you.”  
Jn1831 Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.” The Jews said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death.”  
Jn1832 This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken to show by what kind of death he was going to die.  
Jn1833 So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”  
Jn1834 Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?”  
Jn1835 Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?”  
Jn1836 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”  
Jn1837 Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”  
Jn1838 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.  
Jn1839 But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”  
Jn1840 They cried out again, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.  
Jn1901 Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him.  
Jn1902 And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe.  
Jn1903 They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands.  
Jn1904 Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.”  
Jn1905 So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!”  
Jn1906 When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.”  
Jn1907 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.”  
Jn1908 When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid.  
Jn1909 He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.  
Jn1910 So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?”  
Jn1911 Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”  
Jn1912 From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”  
Jn1913 So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic Gabbatha.  
Jn1914 Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”  
Jn1915 They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.”  
Jn1916 So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,  
Jn1917 and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.  
Jn1918 There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.  
Jn1919 Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”  
Jn1920 Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek.  
Jn1921 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’”  
Jn1922 Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”  
Jn1923 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom,  
Jn1924 so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” This was to fulfill the Scripture which says, “They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.” So the soldiers did these things,  
Jn1925 but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.  
Jn1926 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”  
Jn1927 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.  
Jn1928 After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.”  
Jn1929 A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth.  
Jn1930 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.  
Jn1931 Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.  
Jn1932 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him.  
Jn1933 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.  
Jn1934 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.  
Jn1935 He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe.  
Jn1936 For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.”  
Jn1937 And again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they have pierced.”  
Jn1938 After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body.  
Jn1939 Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight.  
Jn1940 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.  
Jn1941 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.  
Jn1942 So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.  
Jn2001 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.  
Jn2002 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”  
Jn2003 So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb.  
Jn2004 Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.  
Jn2005 And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in.  
Jn2006 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there,  
Jn2007 and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus’ head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself.  
Jn2008 Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed;  
Jn2009 for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.  
Jn2010 Then the disciples went back to their homes.  
Jn2011 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb.  
Jn2012 And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.  
Jn2013 They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.”  
Jn2014 Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus.  
Jn2015 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”  
Jn2016 Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher).  
Jn2017 Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”  
Jn2018 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”—and that he had said these things to her.  
Jn2019 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”  
Jn2020 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.  
Jn2021 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”  
Jn2022 And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.  
Jn2023 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”  
Jn2024 Now Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came.  
Jn2025 So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”  
Jn2026 Eight days later, his disciples were inside again, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”  
Jn2027 Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.”  
Jn2028 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”  
Jn2029 Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”  
Jn2030 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;  
Jn2031 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.  
Jn2101 After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias, and he revealed himself in this way.  
Jn2102 Simon Peter, Thomas (called the Twin), Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.  
Jn2103 Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said to him, “We will go with you.” They went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.  
Jn2104 Just as day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.  
Jn2105 Jesus said to them, “Children, do you have any fish?” They answered him, “No.”  
Jn2106 He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, because of the quantity of fish.  
Jn2107 That disciple whom Jesus loved therefore said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment, for he was stripped for work, and threw himself into the sea.  
Jn2108 The other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish, for they were not far from the land, but about a hundred yards off.  
Jn2109 When they got out on land, they saw a charcoal fire in place, with fish laid out on it, and bread.  
Jn2110 Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish that you have just caught.”  
Jn2111 So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, 153 of them. And although there were so many, the net was not torn.  
Jn2112 Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” Now none of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord.  
Jn2113 Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish.  
Jn2114 This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.  
Jn2115 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”  
Jn2116 He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”  
Jn2117 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.  
Jn2118 Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go.”  
Jn2119 (This he said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.) And after saying this he said to him, “Follow me.”  
Jn2120 Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them, the one who also had leaned back against him during the supper and had said, “Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?”  
Jn2121 When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about this man?”  
Jn2122 Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!”  
Jn2123 So the saying spread abroad among the brothers that this disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?”  
Jn2124 This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true.  
Jn2125 Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.  
Ac0101 In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach,  
Ac0102 until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.  
Ac0103 He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.  
Ac0104 And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me;  
Ac0105 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”  
Ac0106 So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”  
Ac0107 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.  
Ac0108 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”  
Ac0109 And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.  
Ac0110 And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes,  
Ac0111 and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”  
Ac0112 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.  
Ac0113 And when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James.  
Ac0114 All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.  
Ac0115 In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (the company of persons was in all about 120) and said,  
Ac0116 “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.  
Ac0117 For he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry.”  
Ac0118 (Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out.  
Ac0119 And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field was called in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)  
Ac0120 “For it is written in the Book of Psalms, “‘May his camp become desolate, and let there be no one to dwell in it’; and “‘Let another take his office.’  
Ac0121 So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,  
Ac0122 beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection.”  
Ac0123 And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also called Justus, and Matthias.  
Ac0124 And they prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen  
Ac0125 to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”  
Ac0126 And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.  
Ac0201 When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.  
Ac0202 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.  
Ac0203 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.  
Ac0204 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.  
Ac0205 Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.  
Ac0206 And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language.  
Ac0207 And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?  
Ac0208 And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?  
Ac0209 Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,  
Ac0210 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,  
Ac0211 both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.”  
Ac0212 And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”  
Ac0213 But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”  
Ac0214 But Peter, standing with the eleven, lifted up his voice and addressed them: “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give ear to my words.  
Ac0215 For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day.  
Ac0216 But this is what was uttered through the prophet Joel:  
Ac0217 “‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;  
Ac0218 even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.  
Ac0219 And I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke;  
Ac0220 the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day.  
Ac0221 And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’  
Ac0222 “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know—  
Ac0223 this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.  
Ac0224 God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.  
Ac0225 For David says concerning him, “‘I saw the Lord always before me, for he is at my right hand that I may not be shaken;  
Ac0226 therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; my flesh also will dwell in hope.  
Ac0227 For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption.  
Ac0228 You have made known to me the paths of life; you will make me full of gladness with your presence.’  
Ac0229 “Brothers, I may say to you with confidence about the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.  
Ac0230 Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne,  
Ac0231 he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.  
Ac0232 This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.  
Ac0233 Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.  
Ac0234 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,  
Ac0235 until I make your enemies your footstool.”’  
Ac0236 Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”  
Ac0237 Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”  
Ac0238 And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.  
Ac0239 For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”  
Ac0240 And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”  
Ac0241 So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.  
Ac0242 And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.  
Ac0243 And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles.  
Ac0244 And all who believed were together and had all things in common.  
Ac0245 And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.  
Ac0246 And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,  
Ac0247 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.  
Ac0301 Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.  
Ac0302 And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple.  
Ac0303 Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms.  
Ac0304 And Peter directed his gaze at him, as did John, and said, “Look at us.”  
Ac0305 And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them.  
Ac0306 But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!”  
Ac0307 And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong.  
Ac0308 And leaping up, he stood and began to walk, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.  
Ac0309 And all the people saw him walking and praising God,  
Ac0310 and recognized him as the one who sat at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, asking for alms. And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.  
Ac0311 While he clung to Peter and John, all the people, utterly astounded, ran together to them in the portico called Solomon’s.  
Ac0312 And when Peter saw it he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk?  
Ac0313 The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.  
Ac0314 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,  
Ac0315 and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.  
Ac0316 And his name—by faith in his name—has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.  
Ac0317 “And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.  
Ac0318 But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.  
Ac0319 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,  
Ac0320 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,  
Ac0321 whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.  
Ac0322 Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you.  
Ac0323 And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.’  
Ac0324 And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days.  
Ac0325 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’  
Ac0326 God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”  
Ac0401 And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,  
Ac0402 greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.  
Ac0403 And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.  
Ac0404 But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.  
Ac0405 On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem,  
Ac0406 with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family.  
Ac0407 And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?”  
Ac0408 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders,  
Ac0409 if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,  
Ac0410 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well.  
Ac0411 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.  
Ac0412 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”  
Ac0413 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.  
Ac0414 But seeing the man who was healed standing beside them, they had nothing to say in opposition.  
Ac0415 But when they had commanded them to leave the council, they conferred with one another,  
Ac0416 saying, “What shall we do with these men? For that a notable sign has been performed through them is evident to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.  
Ac0417 But in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.”  
Ac0418 So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.  
Ac0419 But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge,  
Ac0420 for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.”  
Ac0421 And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people, for all were praising God for what had happened.  
Ac0422 For the man on whom this sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old.  
Ac0423 When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.  
Ac0424 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,  
Ac0425 who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, “‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain?  
Ac0426 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed’—  
Ac0427 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,  
Ac0428 to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.  
Ac0429 And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness,  
Ac0430 while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”  
Ac0431 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.  
Ac0432 Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common.  
Ac0433 And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.  
Ac0434 There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold  
Ac0435 and laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.  
Ac0436 Thus Joseph, who was also called by the apostles Barnabas (which means son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus,  
Ac0437 sold a field that belonged to him and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.  
Ac0501 But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,  
Ac0502 and with his wife’s knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles’ feet.  
Ac0503 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?  
Ac0504 While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.”  
Ac0505 When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it.  
Ac0506 The young men rose and wrapped him up and carried him out and buried him.  
Ac0507 After an interval of about three hours his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.  
Ac0508 And Peter said to her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” And she said, “Yes, for so much.”  
Ac0509 But Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”  
Ac0510 Immediately she fell down at his feet and breathed her last. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.  
Ac0511 And great fear came upon the whole church and upon all who heard of these things.  
Ac0512 Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico.  
Ac0513 None of the rest dared join them, but the people held them in high esteem.  
Ac0514 And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,  
Ac0515 so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.  
Ac0516 The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed.  
Ac0517 But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy  
Ac0518 they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison.  
Ac0519 But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said,  
Ac0520 “Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.”  
Ac0521 And when they heard this, they entered the temple at daybreak and began to teach. Now when the high priest came, and those who were with him, they called together the council, all the senate of the people of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.  
Ac0522 But when the officers came, they did not find them in the prison, so they returned and reported,  
Ac0523 “We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them we found no one inside.”  
Ac0524 Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them, wondering what this would come to.  
Ac0525 And someone came and told them, “Look! The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.”  
Ac0526 Then the captain with the officers went and brought them, but not by force, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people.  
Ac0527 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them,  
Ac0528 saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.”  
Ac0529 But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.  
Ac0530 The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.  
Ac0531 God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.  
Ac0532 And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”  
Ac0533 When they heard this, they were enraged and wanted to kill them.  
Ac0534 But a Pharisee in the council named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law held in honor by all the people, stood up and gave orders to put the men outside for a little while.  
Ac0535 And he said to them, “Men of Israel, take care what you are about to do with these men.  
Ac0536 For before these days Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.  
Ac0537 After him Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the census and drew away some of the people after him. He too perished, and all who followed him were scattered.  
Ac0538 So in the present case I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or this undertaking is of man, it will fail;  
Ac0539 but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You might even be found opposing God!” So they took his advice,  
Ac0540 and when they had called in the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.  
Ac0541 Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.  
Ac0542 And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus.  
Ac0601 Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution.  
Ac0602 And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables.  
Ac0603 Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty.  
Ac0604 But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”  
Ac0605 And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch.  
Ac0606 These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands on them.  
Ac0607 And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.  
Ac0608 And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people.  
Ac0609 Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen.  
Ac0610 But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.  
Ac0611 Then they secretly instigated men who said, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”  
Ac0612 And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council,  
Ac0613 and they set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law,  
Ac0614 for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses delivered to us.”  
Ac0615 And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel.  
Ac0701 And the high priest said, “Are these things so?”  
Ac0702 And Stephen said: “Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,  
Ac0703 and said to him, ‘Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.’  
Ac0704 Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And after his father died, God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living.  
Ac0705 Yet he gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot’s length, but promised to give it to him as a possession and to his offspring after him, though he had no child.  
Ac0706 And God spoke to this effect—that his offspring would be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who would enslave them and afflict them four hundred years.  
Ac0707 ‘But I will judge the nation that they serve,’ said God, ‘and after that they shall come out and worship me in this place.’  
Ac0708 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.  
Ac0709 “And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him  
Ac0710 and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.  
Ac0711 Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food.  
Ac0712 But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit.  
Ac0713 And on the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph’s family became known to Pharaoh.  
Ac0714 And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all.  
Ac0715 And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers,  
Ac0716 and they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.  
Ac0717 “But as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt  
Ac0718 until there arose over Egypt another king who did not know Joseph.  
Ac0719 He dealt shrewdly with our race and forced our fathers to expose their infants, so that they would not be kept alive.  
Ac0720 At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God’s sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father’s house,  
Ac0721 and when he was exposed, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.  
Ac0722 And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.  
Ac0723 “When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.  
Ac0724 And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian.  
Ac0725 He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand.  
Ac0726 And on the following day he appeared to them as they were quarreling and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why do you wrong each other?’  
Ac0727 But the man who was wronging his neighbor thrust him aside, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?  
Ac0728 Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’  
Ac0729 At this retort Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.  
Ac0730 “Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.  
Ac0731 When Moses saw it, he was amazed at the sight, and as he drew near to look, there came the voice of the Lord:  
Ac0732 ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.’ And Moses trembled and did not dare to look.  
Ac0733 Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.  
Ac0734 I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.’  
Ac0735 “This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.  
Ac0736 This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.  
Ac0737 This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers.’  
Ac0738 This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us.  
Ac0739 Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt,  
Ac0740 saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’  
Ac0741 And they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and were rejoicing in the works of their hands.  
Ac0742 But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: “‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?  
Ac0743 You took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship; and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’  
Ac0744 “Our fathers had the tent of witness in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it, according to the pattern that he had seen.  
Ac0745 Our fathers in turn brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers. So it was until the days of David,  
Ac0746 who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.  
Ac0747 But it was Solomon who built a house for him.  
Ac0748 Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands, as the prophet says,  
Ac0749 “‘Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest?  
Ac0750 Did not my hand make all these things?’  
Ac0751 “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.  
Ac0752 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,  
Ac0753 you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it.”  
Ac0754 Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him.  
Ac0755 But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.  
Ac0756 And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”  
Ac0757 But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together at him.  
Ac0758 Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.  
Ac0759 And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”  
Ac0760 And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.  
Ac0801 And Saul approved of his execution. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.  
Ac0802 Devout men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him.  
Ac0803 But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.  
Ac0804 Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word.  
Ac0805 Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ.  
Ac0806 And the crowds with one accord paid attention to what was being said by Philip, when they heard him and saw the signs that he did.  
Ac0807 For unclean spirits, crying out with a loud voice, came out of many who had them, and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed.  
Ac0808 So there was much joy in that city.  
Ac0809 But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great.  
Ac0810 They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called Great.”  
Ac0811 And they paid attention to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic.  
Ac0812 But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.  
Ac0813 Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles performed, he was amazed.  
Ac0814 Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John,  
Ac0815 who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit,  
Ac0816 for he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.  
Ac0817 Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.  
Ac0818 Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,  
Ac0819 saying, “Give me this power also, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”  
Ac0820 But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!  
Ac0821 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.  
Ac0822 Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.  
Ac0823 For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.”  
Ac0824 And Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that nothing of what you have said may come upon me.”  
Ac0825 Now when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.  
Ac0826 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place.  
Ac0827 And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship  
Ac0828 and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah.  
Ac0829 And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.”  
Ac0830 So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”  
Ac0831 And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.  
Ac0832 Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: “Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opens not his mouth.  
Ac0833 In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth.”  
Ac0834 And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?”  
Ac0835 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus.  
Ac0836 And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?”  
Ac0837  
Ac0838 And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.  
Ac0839 And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing.  
Ac0840 But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he preached the gospel to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.  
Ac0901 But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest  
Ac0902 and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.  
Ac0903 Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven shone around him.  
Ac0904 And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”  
Ac0905 And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.  
Ac0906 But rise and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do.”  
Ac0907 The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one.  
Ac0908 Saul rose from the ground, and although his eyes were opened, he saw nothing. So they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus.  
Ac0909 And for three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.  
Ac0910 Now there was a disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias.” And he said, “Here I am, Lord.”  
Ac0911 And the Lord said to him, “Rise and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying,  
Ac0912 and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight.”  
Ac0913 But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem.  
Ac0914 And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”  
Ac0915 But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.  
Ac0916 For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”  
Ac0917 So Ananias departed and entered the house. And laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”  
Ac0918 And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized;  
Ac0919 and taking food, he was strengthened. For some days he was with the disciples at Damascus.  
Ac0920 And immediately he proclaimed Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.”  
Ac0921 And all who heard him were amazed and said, “Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem of those who called upon this name? And has he not come here for this purpose, to bring them bound before the chief priests?”  
Ac0922 But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ.  
Ac0923 When many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him,  
Ac0924 but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night in order to kill him,  
Ac0925 but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.  
Ac0926 And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple.  
Ac0927 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.  
Ac0928 So he went in and out among them at Jerusalem, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord.  
Ac0929 And he spoke and disputed against the Hellenists. But they were seeking to kill him.  
Ac0930 And when the brothers learned this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.  
Ac0931 So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.  
Ac0932 Now as Peter went here and there among them all, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.  
Ac0933 There he found a man named Aeneas, bedridden for eight years, who was paralyzed.  
Ac0934 And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed.” And immediately he rose.  
Ac0935 And all the residents of Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.  
Ac0936 Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.  
Ac0937 In those days she became ill and died, and when they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.  
Ac0938 Since Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him, urging him, “Please come to us without delay.”  
Ac0939 So Peter rose and went with them. And when he arrived, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping and showing tunics and other garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.  
Ac0940 But Peter put them all outside, and knelt down and prayed; and turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.  
Ac0941 And he gave her his hand and raised her up. Then, calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.  
Ac0942 And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.  
Ac0943 And he stayed in Joppa for many days with one Simon, a tanner.  
Ac1001 At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort,  
Ac1002 a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God.  
Ac1003 About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.”  
Ac1004 And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.  
Ac1005 And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter.  
Ac1006 He is lodging with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.”  
Ac1007 When the angel who spoke to him had departed, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among those who attended him,  
Ac1008 and having related everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.  
Ac1009 The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray.  
Ac1010 And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance  
Ac1011 and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth.  
Ac1012 In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air.  
Ac1013 And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.”  
Ac1014 But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”  
Ac1015 And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.”  
Ac1016 This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.  
Ac1017 Now while Peter was inwardly perplexed as to what the vision that he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon’s house, stood at the gate  
Ac1018 and called out to ask whether Simon who was called Peter was lodging there.  
Ac1019 And while Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men are looking for you.  
Ac1020 Rise and go down and accompany them without hesitation, for I have sent them.”  
Ac1021 And Peter went down to the men and said, “I am the one you are looking for. What is the reason for your coming?”  
Ac1022 And they said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear what you have to say.”  
Ac1023 So he invited them in to be his guests. The next day he rose and went away with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.  
Ac1024 And on the following day they entered Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.  
Ac1025 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him.  
Ac1026 But Peter lifted him up, saying, “Stand up; I too am a man.”  
Ac1027 And as he talked with him, he went in and found many persons gathered.  
Ac1028 And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean.  
Ac1029 So when I was sent for, I came without objection. I ask then why you sent for me.”  
Ac1030 And Cornelius said, “Four days ago, about this hour, I was praying in my house at the ninth hour, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing  
Ac1031 and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.  
Ac1032 Send therefore to Joppa and ask for Simon who is called Peter. He is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea.’  
Ac1033 So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here in the presence of God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord.”  
Ac1034 So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,  
Ac1035 but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.  
Ac1036 As for the word that he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all),  
Ac1037 you yourselves know what happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism that John proclaimed:  
Ac1038 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.  
Ac1039 And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree,  
Ac1040 but God raised him on the third day and made him to appear,  
Ac1041 not to all the people but to us who had been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.  
Ac1042 And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.  
Ac1043 To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”  
Ac1044 While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.  
Ac1045 And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.  
Ac1046 For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared,  
Ac1047 “Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”  
Ac1048 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.  
Ac1101 Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.  
Ac1102 So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying,  
Ac1103 “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.”  
Ac1104 But Peter began and explained it to them in order:  
Ac1105 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, something like a great sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to me.  
Ac1106 Looking at it closely, I observed animals and beasts of prey and reptiles and birds of the air.  
Ac1107 And I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Rise, Peter; kill and eat.’  
Ac1108 But I said, ‘By no means, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’  
Ac1109 But the voice answered a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, do not call common.’  
Ac1110 This happened three times, and all was drawn up again into heaven.  
Ac1111 And behold, at that very moment three men arrived at the house in which we were, sent to me from Caesarea.  
Ac1112 And the Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered the man’s house.  
Ac1113 And he told us how he had seen the angel stand in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa and bring Simon who is called Peter;  
Ac1114 he will declare to you a message by which you will be saved, you and all your household.’  
Ac1115 As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning.  
Ac1116 And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’  
Ac1117 If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?”  
Ac1118 When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.”  
Ac1119 Now those who were scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews.  
Ac1120 But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who on coming to Antioch spoke to the Hellenists also, preaching the Lord Jesus.  
Ac1121 And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.  
Ac1122 The report of this came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.  
Ac1123 When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose,  
Ac1124 for he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a great many people were added to the Lord.  
Ac1125 So Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul,  
Ac1126 and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a great many people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians.  
Ac1127 Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.  
Ac1128 And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world (this took place in the days of Claudius).  
Ac1129 So the disciples determined, every one according to his ability, to send relief to the brothers living in Judea.  
Ac1130 And they did so, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.  
Ac1201 About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church.  
Ac1202 He killed James the brother of John with the sword,  
Ac1203 and when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. This was during the days of Unleavened Bread.  
Ac1204 And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.  
Ac1205 So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.  
Ac1206 Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison.  
Ac1207 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands.  
Ac1208 And the angel said to him, “Dress yourself and put on your sandals.” And he did so. And he said to him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.”  
Ac1209 And he went out and followed him. He did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.  
Ac1210 When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened for them of its own accord, and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel left him.  
Ac1211 When Peter came to himself, he said, “Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.”  
Ac1212 When he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John whose other name was Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.  
Ac1213 And when he knocked at the door of the gateway, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer.  
Ac1214 Recognizing Peter’s voice, in her joy she did not open the gate but ran in and reported that Peter was standing at the gate.  
Ac1215 They said to her, “You are out of your mind.” But she kept insisting that it was so, and they kept saying, “It is his angel!”  
Ac1216 But Peter continued knocking, and when they opened, they saw him and were amazed.  
Ac1217 But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, “Tell these things to James and to the brothers.” Then he departed and went to another place.  
Ac1218 Now when day came, there was no little disturbance among the soldiers over what had become of Peter.  
Ac1219 And after Herod searched for him and did not find him, he examined the sentries and ordered that they should be put to death. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent time there.  
Ac1220 Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they came to him with one accord, and having persuaded Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.  
Ac1221 On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and delivered an oration to them.  
Ac1222 And the people were shouting, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”  
Ac1223 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.  
Ac1224 But the word of God increased and multiplied.  
Ac1225 And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had completed their service, bringing with them John, whose other name was Mark.  
Ac1301 Now there were in the church at Antioch prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen a lifelong friend of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.  
Ac1302 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”  
Ac1303 Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.  
Ac1304 So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus.  
Ac1305 When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they had John to assist them.  
Ac1306 When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.  
Ac1307 He was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.  
Ac1308 But Elymas the magician (for that is the meaning of his name) opposed them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.  
Ac1309 But Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him  
Ac1310 and said, “You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?  
Ac1311 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time.” Immediately mist and darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking people to lead him by the hand.  
Ac1312 Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had occurred, for he was astonished at the teaching of the Lord.  
Ac1313 Now Paul and his companions set sail from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia. And John left them and returned to Jerusalem,  
Ac1314 but they went on from Perga and came to Antioch in Pisidia. And on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.  
Ac1315 After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent a message to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of encouragement for the people, say it.”  
Ac1316 So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said: “Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen.  
Ac1317 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.  
Ac1318 And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.  
Ac1319 And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.  
Ac1320 All this took about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.  
Ac1321 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.  
Ac1322 And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’  
Ac1323 Of this man’s offspring God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised.  
Ac1324 Before his coming, John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.  
Ac1325 And as John was finishing his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. No, but behold, after me one is coming, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’  
Ac1326 “Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, to us has been sent the message of this salvation.  
Ac1327 For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize him nor understand the utterances of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.  
Ac1328 And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.  
Ac1329 And when they had carried out all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.  
Ac1330 But God raised him from the dead,  
Ac1331 and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are now his witnesses to the people.  
Ac1332 And we bring you the good news that what God promised to the fathers,  
Ac1333 this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm, “‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you.’  
Ac1334 And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way, “‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’  
Ac1335 Therefore he says also in another psalm, “‘You will not let your Holy One see corruption.’  
Ac1336 For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,  
Ac1337 but he whom God raised up did not see corruption.  
Ac1338 Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,  
Ac1339 and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.  
Ac1340 Beware, therefore, lest what is said in the Prophets should come about:  
Ac1341 “‘Look, you scoffers, be astounded and perish; for I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.’”  
Ac1342 As they went out, the people begged that these things might be told them the next Sabbath.  
Ac1343 And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who, as they spoke with them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.  
Ac1344 The next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord.  
Ac1345 But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him.  
Ac1346 And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.  
Ac1347 For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, “‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”  
Ac1348 And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.  
Ac1349 And the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the whole region.  
Ac1350 But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.  
Ac1351 But they shook off the dust from their feet against them and went to Iconium.  
Ac1352 And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.  
Ac1401 Now at Iconium they entered together into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.  
Ac1402 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.  
Ac1403 So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.  
Ac1404 But the people of the city were divided; some sided with the Jews and some with the apostles.  
Ac1405 When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to mistreat them and to stone them,  
Ac1406 they learned of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding country,  
Ac1407 and there they continued to preach the gospel.  
Ac1408 Now at Lystra there was a man sitting who could not use his feet. He was crippled from birth and had never walked.  
Ac1409 He listened to Paul speaking. And Paul, looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be made well,  
Ac1410 said in a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.” And he sprang up and began walking.  
Ac1411 And when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in Lycaonian, “The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men!”  
Ac1412 Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.  
Ac1413 And the priest of Zeus, whose temple was at the entrance to the city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates and wanted to offer sacrifice with the crowds.  
Ac1414 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their garments and rushed out into the crowd, crying out,  
Ac1415 “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.  
Ac1416 In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.  
Ac1417 Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”  
Ac1418 Even with these words they scarcely restrained the people from offering sacrifice to them.  
Ac1419 But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.  
Ac1420 But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.  
Ac1421 When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,  
Ac1422 strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.  
Ac1423 And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.  
Ac1424 Then they passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia.  
Ac1425 And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia,  
Ac1426 and from there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled.  
Ac1427 And when they arrived and gathered the church together, they declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.  
Ac1428 And they remained no little time with the disciples.  
Ac1501 But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”  
Ac1502 And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question.  
Ac1503 So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers.  
Ac1504 When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them.  
Ac1505 But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.”  
Ac1506 The apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider this matter.  
Ac1507 And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.  
Ac1508 And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,  
Ac1509 and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.  
Ac1510 Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?  
Ac1511 But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.”  
Ac1512 And all the assembly fell silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.  
Ac1513 After they finished speaking, James replied, “Brothers, listen to me.  
Ac1514 Simeon has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for his name.  
Ac1515 And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written,  
Ac1516 “‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it,  
Ac1517 that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things  
Ac1518 known from of old.’  
Ac1519 Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God,  
Ac1520 but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.  
Ac1521 For from ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.”  
Ac1522 Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They sent Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brothers,  
Ac1523 with the following letter: “The brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings.  
Ac1524 Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions,  
Ac1525 it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,  
Ac1526 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.  
Ac1527 We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth.  
Ac1528 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements:  
Ac1529 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”  
Ac1530 So when they were sent off, they went down to Antioch, and having gathered the congregation together, they delivered the letter.  
Ac1531 And when they had read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement.  
Ac1532 And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many words.  
Ac1533 And after they had spent some time, they were sent off in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.  
Ac1534  
Ac1535 But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.  
Ac1536 And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.”  
Ac1537 Now Barnabas wanted to take with them John called Mark.  
Ac1538 But Paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.  
Ac1539 And there arose a sharp disagreement, so that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,  
Ac1540 but Paul chose Silas and departed, having been commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord.  
Ac1541 And he went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.  
Ac1601 Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek.  
Ac1602 He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium.  
Ac1603 Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.  
Ac1604 As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem.  
Ac1605 So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily.  
Ac1606 And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.  
Ac1607 And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.  
Ac1608 So, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas.  
Ac1609 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”  
Ac1610 And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.  
Ac1611 So, setting sail from Troas, we made a direct voyage to Samothrace, and the following day to Neapolis,  
Ac1612 and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of the district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We remained in this city some days.  
Ac1613 And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to the riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women who had come together.  
Ac1614 One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.  
Ac1615 And after she was baptized, and her household as well, she urged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.” And she prevailed upon us.  
Ac1616 As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling.  
Ac1617 She followed Paul and us, crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.”  
Ac1618 And this she kept doing for many days. Paul, having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour.  
Ac1619 But when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.  
Ac1620 And when they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men are Jews, and they are disturbing our city.  
Ac1621 They advocate customs that are not lawful for us as Romans to accept or practice.”  
Ac1622 The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates tore the garments off them and gave orders to beat them with rods.  
Ac1623 And when they had inflicted many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, ordering the jailer to keep them safely.  
Ac1624 Having received this order, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.  
Ac1625 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,  
Ac1626 and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were unfastened.  
Ac1627 When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.  
Ac1628 But Paul cried with a loud voice, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.”  
Ac1629 And the jailer called for lights and rushed in, and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas.  
Ac1630 Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”  
Ac1631 And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”  
Ac1632 And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.  
Ac1633 And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.  
Ac1634 Then he brought them up into his house and set food before them. And he rejoiced along with his entire household that he had believed in God.  
Ac1635 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the police, saying, “Let those men go.”  
Ac1636 And the jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The magistrates have sent to let you go. Therefore come out now and go in peace.”  
Ac1637 But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men who are Roman citizens, and have thrown us into prison; and do they now throw us out secretly? No! Let them come themselves and take us out.”  
Ac1638 The police reported these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Roman citizens.  
Ac1639 So they came and apologized to them. And they took them out and asked them to leave the city.  
Ac1640 So they went out of the prison and visited Lydia. And when they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them and departed.  
Ac1701 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews.  
Ac1702 And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,  
Ac1703 explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”  
Ac1704 And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women.  
Ac1705 But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd.  
Ac1706 And when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some of the brothers before the city authorities, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also,  
Ac1707 and Jason has received them, and they are all acting against the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.”  
Ac1708 And the people and the city authorities were disturbed when they heard these things.  
Ac1709 And when they had taken money as security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.  
Ac1710 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue.  
Ac1711 Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.  
Ac1712 Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek women of high standing as well as men.  
Ac1713 But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too, agitating and stirring up the crowds.  
Ac1714 Then the brothers immediately sent Paul off on his way to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained there.  
Ac1715 Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and after receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed.  
Ac1716 Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.  
Ac1717 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.  
Ac1718 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, “What does this babbler wish to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.  
Ac1719 And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting?  
Ac1720 For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.”  
Ac1721 Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.  
Ac1722 So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.  
Ac1723 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.  
Ac1724 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,  
Ac1725 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.  
Ac1726 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,  
Ac1727 that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,  
Ac1728 for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’  
Ac1729 Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.  
Ac1730 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,  
Ac1731 because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”  
Ac1732 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said, “We will hear you again about this.”  
Ac1733 So Paul went out from their midst.  
Ac1734 But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.  
Ac1801 After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.  
Ac1802 And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them,  
Ac1803 and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade.  
Ac1804 And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.  
Ac1805 When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.  
Ac1806 And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”  
Ac1807 And he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God. His house was next door to the synagogue.  
Ac1808 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.  
Ac1809 And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent,  
Ac1810 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many in this city who are my people.”  
Ac1811 And he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.  
Ac1812 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal,  
Ac1813 saying, “This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the law.”  
Ac1814 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious crime, O Jews, I would have reason to accept your complaint.  
Ac1815 But since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things.”  
Ac1816 And he drove them from the tribunal.  
Ac1817 And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.  
Ac1818 After this, Paul stayed many days longer and then took leave of the brothers and set sail for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchreae he had cut his hair, for he was under a vow.  
Ac1819 And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there, but he himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.  
Ac1820 When they asked him to stay for a longer period, he declined.  
Ac1821 But on taking leave of them he said, “I will return to you if God wills,” and he set sail from Ephesus.  
Ac1822 When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and then went down to Antioch.  
Ac1823 After spending some time there, he departed and went from one place to the next through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.  
Ac1824 Now a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was an eloquent man, competent in the Scriptures.  
Ac1825 He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. And being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, though he knew only the baptism of John.  
Ac1826 He began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.  
Ac1827 And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed,  
Ac1828 for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.  
Ac1901 And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples.  
Ac1902 And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”  
Ac1903 And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”  
Ac1904 And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.”  
Ac1905 On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.  
Ac1906 And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.  
Ac1907 There were about twelve men in all.  
Ac1908 And he entered the synagogue and for three months spoke boldly, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.  
Ac1909 But when some became stubborn and continued in unbelief, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus.  
Ac1910 This continued for two years, so that all the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.  
Ac1911 And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,  
Ac1912 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.  
Ac1913 Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.”  
Ac1914 Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this.  
Ac1915 But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?”  
Ac1916 And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.  
Ac1917 And this became known to all the residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. And fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was extolled.  
Ac1918 Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.  
Ac1919 And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.  
Ac1920 So the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily.  
Ac1921 Now after these events Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”  
Ac1922 And having sent into Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.  
Ac1923 About that time there arose no little disturbance concerning the Way.  
Ac1924 For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen.  
Ac1925 These he gathered together, with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth.  
Ac1926 And you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great many people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods.  
Ac1927 And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may be counted as nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship.”  
Ac1928 When they heard this they were enraged and were crying out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”  
Ac1929 So the city was filled with the confusion, and they rushed together into the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul’s companions in travel.  
Ac1930 But when Paul wished to go in among the crowd, the disciples would not let him.  
Ac1931 And even some of the Asiarchs, who were friends of his, sent to him and were urging him not to venture into the theater.  
Ac1932 Now some cried out one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together.  
Ac1933 Some of the crowd prompted Alexander, whom the Jews had put forward. And Alexander, motioning with his hand, wanted to make a defense to the crowd.  
Ac1934 But when they recognized that he was a Jew, for about two hours they all cried out with one voice, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”  
Ac1935 And when the town clerk had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, who is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the sacred stone that fell from the sky?  
Ac1936 Seeing then that these things cannot be denied, you ought to be quiet and do nothing rash.  
Ac1937 For you have brought these men here who are neither sacrilegious nor blasphemers of our goddess.  
Ac1938 If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen with him have a complaint against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them bring charges against one another.  
Ac1939 But if you seek anything further, it shall be settled in the regular assembly.  
Ac1940 For we really are in danger of being charged with rioting today, since there is no cause that we can give to justify this commotion.”  
Ac1941 And when he had said these things, he dismissed the assembly.  
Ac2001 After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed for Macedonia.  
Ac2002 When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece.  
Ac2003 There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.  
Ac2004 Sopater the Berean, son of Pyrrhus, accompanied him; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and the Asians, Tychicus and Trophimus.  
Ac2005 These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas,  
Ac2006 but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we came to them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days.  
Ac2007 On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.  
Ac2008 There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered.  
Ac2009 And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead.  
Ac2010 But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.”  
Ac2011 And when Paul had gone up and had broken bread and eaten, he conversed with them a long while, until daybreak, and so departed.  
Ac2012 And they took the youth away alive, and were not a little comforted.  
Ac2013 But going ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land.  
Ac2014 And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene.  
Ac2015 And sailing from there we came the following day opposite Chios; the next day we touched at Samos; and the day after that we went to Miletus.  
Ac2016 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he might not have to spend time in Asia, for he was hastening to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.  
Ac2017 Now from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church to come to him.  
Ac2018 And when they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you the whole time from the first day that I set foot in Asia,  
Ac2019 serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews;  
Ac2020 how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,  
Ac2021 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.  
Ac2022 And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there,  
Ac2023 except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.  
Ac2024 But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.  
Ac2025 And now, behold, I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom will see my face again.  
Ac2026 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all,  
Ac2027 for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.  
Ac2028 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.  
Ac2029 I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;  
Ac2030 and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them.  
Ac2031 Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears.  
Ac2032 And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.  
Ac2033 I coveted no one’s silver or gold or apparel.  
Ac2034 You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities and to those who were with me.  
Ac2035 In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”  
Ac2036 And when he had said these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.  
Ac2037 And there was much weeping on the part of all; they embraced Paul and kissed him,  
Ac2038 being sorrowful most of all because of the word he had spoken, that they would not see his face again. And they accompanied him to the ship.  
Ac2101 And when we had parted from them and set sail, we came by a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.  
Ac2102 And having found a ship crossing to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.  
Ac2103 When we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, for there the ship was to unload its cargo.  
Ac2104 And having sought out the disciples, we stayed there for seven days. And through the Spirit they were telling Paul not to go on to Jerusalem.  
Ac2105 When our days there were ended, we departed and went on our journey, and they all, with wives and children, accompanied us until we were outside the city. And kneeling down on the beach, we prayed  
Ac2106 and said farewell to one another. Then we went on board the ship, and they returned home.  
Ac2107 When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais, and we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for one day.  
Ac2108 On the next day we departed and came to Caesarea, and we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.  
Ac2109 He had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied.  
Ac2110 While we were staying for many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.  
Ac2111 And coming to us, he took Paul’s belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”  
Ac2112 When we heard this, we and the people there urged him not to go up to Jerusalem.  
Ac2113 Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be imprisoned but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”  
Ac2114 And since he would not be persuaded, we ceased and said, “Let the will of the Lord be done.”  
Ac2115 After these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem.  
Ac2116 And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing us to the house of Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we should lodge.  
Ac2117 When we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly.  
Ac2118 On the following day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present.  
Ac2119 After greeting them, he related one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.  
Ac2120 And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed. They are all zealous for the law,  
Ac2121 and they have been told about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or walk according to our customs.  
Ac2122 What then is to be done? They will certainly hear that you have come.  
Ac2123 Do therefore what we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow;  
Ac2124 take these men and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself also live in observance of the law.  
Ac2125 But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality.”  
Ac2126 Then Paul took the men, and the next day he purified himself along with them and went into the temple, giving notice when the days of purification would be fulfilled and the offering presented for each one of them.  
Ac2127 When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, seeing him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd and laid hands on him,  
Ac2128 crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against the people and the law and this place. Moreover, he even brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.”  
Ac2129 For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.  
Ac2130 Then all the city was stirred up, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.  
Ac2131 And as they were seeking to kill him, word came to the tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.  
Ac2132 He at once took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. And when they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.  
Ac2133 Then the tribune came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He inquired who he was and what he had done.  
Ac2134 Some in the crowd were shouting one thing, some another. And as he could not learn the facts because of the uproar, he ordered him to be brought into the barracks.  
Ac2135 And when he came to the steps, he was actually carried by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd,  
Ac2136 for the mob of the people followed, crying out, “Away with him!”  
Ac2137 As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the tribune, “May I say something to you?” And he said, “Do you know Greek?  
Ac2138 Are you not the Egyptian, then, who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?”  
Ac2139 Paul replied, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no obscure city. I beg you, permit me to speak to the people.”  
Ac2140 And when he had given him permission, Paul, standing on the steps, motioned with his hand to the people. And when there was a great hush, he addressed them in the Hebrew language, saying:  
Ac2201 “Brothers and fathers, hear the defense that I now make before you.”  
Ac2202 And when they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew language, they became even more quiet. And he said:  
Ac2203 “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as all of you are this day.  
Ac2204 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering to prison both men and women,  
Ac2205 as the high priest and the whole council of elders can bear me witness. From them I received letters to the brothers, and I journeyed toward Damascus to take those also who were there and bring them in bonds to Jerusalem to be punished.  
Ac2206 “As I was on my way and drew near to Damascus, about noon a great light from heaven suddenly shone around me.  
Ac2207 And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’  
Ac2208 And I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And he said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting.’  
Ac2209 Now those who were with me saw the light but did not understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me.  
Ac2210 And I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ And the Lord said to me, ‘Rise, and go into Damascus, and there you will be told all that is appointed for you to do.’  
Ac2211 And since I could not see because of the brightness of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me, and came into Damascus.  
Ac2212 “And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there,  
Ac2213 came to me, and standing by me said to me, ‘Brother Saul, receive your sight.’ And at that very hour I received my sight and saw him.  
Ac2214 And he said, ‘The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth;  
Ac2215 for you will be a witness for him to everyone of what you have seen and heard.  
Ac2216 And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’  
Ac2217 “When I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance  
Ac2218 and saw him saying to me, ‘Make haste and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’  
Ac2219 And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you.  
Ac2220 And when the blood of Stephen your witness was being shed, I myself was standing by and approving and watching over the garments of those who killed him.’  
Ac2221 And he said to me, ‘Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”  
Ac2222 Up to this word they listened to him. Then they raised their voices and said, “Away with such a fellow from the earth! For he should not be allowed to live.”  
Ac2223 And as they were shouting and throwing off their cloaks and flinging dust into the air,  
Ac2224 the tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, saying that he should be examined by flogging, to find out why they were shouting against him like this.  
Ac2225 But when they had stretched him out for the whips, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, “Is it lawful for you to flog a man who is a Roman citizen and uncondemned?”  
Ac2226 When the centurion heard this, he went to the tribune and said to him, “What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.”  
Ac2227 So the tribune came and said to him, “Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?” And he said, “Yes.”  
Ac2228 The tribune answered, “I bought this citizenship for a large sum.” Paul said, “But I am a citizen by birth.”  
Ac2229 So those who were about to examine him withdrew from him immediately, and the tribune also was afraid, for he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had bound him.  
Ac2230 But on the next day, desiring to know the real reason why he was being accused by the Jews, he unbound him and commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and he brought Paul down and set him before them.  
Ac2301 And looking intently at the council, Paul said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience up to this day.”  
Ac2302 And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.  
Ac2303 Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?”  
Ac2304 Those who stood by said, “Would you revile God’s high priest?”  
Ac2305 And Paul said, “I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”  
Ac2306 Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”  
Ac2307 And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.  
Ac2308 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.  
Ac2309 Then a great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ party stood up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong in this man. What if a spirit or an angel spoke to him?”  
Ac2310 And when the dissension became violent, the tribune, afraid that Paul would be torn to pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him away from among them by force and bring him into the barracks.  
Ac2311 The following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage, for as you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so you must testify also in Rome.”  
Ac2312 When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.  
Ac2313 There were more than forty who made this conspiracy.  
Ac2314 They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul.  
Ac2315 Now therefore you, along with the council, give notice to the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”  
Ac2316 Now the son of Paul’s sister heard of their ambush, so he went and entered the barracks and told Paul.  
Ac2317 Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the tribune, for he has something to tell him.”  
Ac2318 So he took him and brought him to the tribune and said, “Paul the prisoner called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, as he has something to say to you.”  
Ac2319 The tribune took him by the hand, and going aside asked him privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”  
Ac2320 And he said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more closely about him.  
Ac2321 But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him, who have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for your consent.”  
Ac2322 So the tribune dismissed the young man, charging him, “Tell no one that you have informed me of these things.”  
Ac2323 Then he called two of the centurions and said, “Get ready two hundred soldiers, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go as far as Caesarea at the third hour of the night.  
Ac2324 Also provide mounts for Paul to ride and bring him safely to Felix the governor.”  
Ac2325 And he wrote a letter to this effect:  
Ac2326 “Claudius Lysias, to his Excellency the governor Felix, greetings.  
Ac2327 This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman citizen.  
Ac2328 And desiring to know the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their council.  
Ac2329 I found that he was being accused about questions of their law, but charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment.  
Ac2330 And when it was disclosed to me that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, ordering his accusers also to state before you what they have against him.”  
Ac2331 So the soldiers, according to their instructions, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.  
Ac2332 And on the next day they returned to the barracks, letting the horsemen go on with him.  
Ac2333 When they had come to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they presented Paul also before him.  
Ac2334 On reading the letter, he asked what province he was from. And when he learned that he was from Cilicia,  
Ac2335 he said, “I will give you a hearing when your accusers arrive.” And he commanded him to be guarded in Herod’s praetorium.  
Ac2401 And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a spokesman, one Tertullus. They laid before the governor their case against Paul.  
Ac2402 And when he had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying: “Since through you we enjoy much peace, and since by your foresight, most excellent Felix, reforms are being made for this nation,  
Ac2403 in every way and everywhere we accept this with all gratitude.  
Ac2404 But, to detain you no further, I beg you in your kindness to hear us briefly.  
Ac2405 For we have found this man a plague, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.  
Ac2406 He even tried to profane the temple, but we seized him.  
Ac2407  
Ac2408 By examining him yourself you will be able to find out from him about everything of which we accuse him.”  
Ac2409 The Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that all these things were so.  
Ac2410 And when the governor had nodded to him to speak, Paul replied: “Knowing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation, I cheerfully make my defense.  
Ac2411 You can verify that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,  
Ac2412 and they did not find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogues or in the city.  
Ac2413 Neither can they prove to you what they now bring up against me.  
Ac2414 But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,  
Ac2415 having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.  
Ac2416 So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.  
Ac2417 Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.  
Ac2418 While I was doing this, they found me purified in the temple, without any crowd or tumult. But some Jews from Asia—  
Ac2419 they ought to be here before you and to make an accusation, should they have anything against me.  
Ac2420 Or else let these men themselves say what wrongdoing they found when I stood before the council,  
Ac2421 other than this one thing that I cried out while standing among them: ‘It is with respect to the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you this day.’”  
Ac2422 But Felix, having a rather accurate knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, “When Lysias the tribune comes down, I will decide your case.”  
Ac2423 Then he gave orders to the centurion that he should be kept in custody but have some liberty, and that none of his friends should be prevented from attending to his needs.  
Ac2424 After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.  
Ac2425 And as he reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, “Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity I will summon you.”  
Ac2426 At the same time he hoped that money would be given him by Paul. So he sent for him often and conversed with him.  
Ac2427 When two years had elapsed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. And desiring to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison.  
Ac2501 Now three days after Festus had arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.  
Ac2502 And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews laid out their case against Paul, and they urged him,  
Ac2503 asking as a favor against Paul that he summon him to Jerusalem—because they were planning an ambush to kill him on the way.  
Ac2504 Festus replied that Paul was being kept at Caesarea and that he himself intended to go there shortly.  
Ac2505 “So,” said he, “let the men of authority among you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong about the man, let them bring charges against him.”  
Ac2506 After he stayed among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea. And the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought.  
Ac2507 When he had arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him that they could not prove.  
Ac2508 Paul argued in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I committed any offense.”  
Ac2509 But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, “Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?”  
Ac2510 But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s tribunal, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you yourself know very well.  
Ac2511 If then I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything for which I deserve to die, I do not seek to escape death. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.”  
Ac2512 Then Festus, when he had conferred with his council, answered, “To Caesar you have appealed; to Caesar you shall go.”  
Ac2513 Now when some days had passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea and greeted Festus.  
Ac2514 And as they stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a man left prisoner by Felix,  
Ac2515 and when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid out their case against him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him.  
Ac2516 I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to give up anyone before the accused met the accusers face to face and had opportunity to make his defense concerning the charge laid against him.  
Ac2517 So when they came together here, I made no delay, but on the next day took my seat on the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought.  
Ac2518 When the accusers stood up, they brought no charge in his case of such evils as I supposed.  
Ac2519 Rather they had certain points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul asserted to be alive.  
Ac2520 Being at a loss how to investigate these questions, I asked whether he wanted to go to Jerusalem and be tried there regarding them.  
Ac2521 But when Paul had appealed to be kept in custody for the decision of the emperor, I ordered him to be held until I could send him to Caesar.”  
Ac2522 Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” said he, “you will hear him.”  
Ac2523 So on the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and they entered the audience hall with the military tribunes and the prominent men of the city. Then, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.  
Ac2524 And Festus said, “King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish people petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he ought not to live any longer.  
Ac2525 But I found that he had done nothing deserving death. And as he himself appealed to the emperor, I decided to go ahead and send him.  
Ac2526 But I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that, after we have examined him, I may have something to write.  
Ac2527 For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to indicate the charges against him.”  
Ac2601 So Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense:  
Ac2602 “I consider myself fortunate that it is before you, King Agrippa, I am going to make my defense today against all the accusations of the Jews,  
Ac2603 especially because you are familiar with all the customs and controversies of the Jews. Therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.  
Ac2604 “My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.  
Ac2605 They have known for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I have lived as a Pharisee.  
Ac2606 And now I stand here on trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,  
Ac2607 to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am accused by Jews, O king!  
Ac2608 Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?  
Ac2609 “I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of Jesus of Nazareth.  
Ac2610 And I did so in Jerusalem. I not only locked up many of the saints in prison after receiving authority from the chief priests, but when they were put to death I cast my vote against them.  
Ac2611 And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme, and in raging fury against them I persecuted them even to foreign cities.  
Ac2612 “In this connection I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.  
Ac2613 At midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, that shone around me and those who journeyed with me.  
Ac2614 And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’  
Ac2615 And I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And the Lord said, ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.  
Ac2616 But rise and stand upon your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen me and to those in which I will appear to you,  
Ac2617 delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles—to whom I am sending you  
Ac2618 to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’  
Ac2619 “Therefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,  
Ac2620 but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds in keeping with their repentance.  
Ac2621 For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.  
Ac2622 To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass:  
Ac2623 that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.”  
Ac2624 And as he was saying these things in his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are out of your mind; your great learning is driving you out of your mind.”  
Ac2625 But Paul said, “I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I am speaking true and rational words.  
Ac2626 For the king knows about these things, and to him I speak boldly. For I am persuaded that none of these things has escaped his notice, for this has not been done in a corner.  
Ac2627 King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”  
Ac2628 And Agrippa said to Paul, “In a short time would you persuade me to be a Christian?”  
Ac2629 And Paul said, “Whether short or long, I would to God that not only you but also all who hear me this day might become such as I am—except for these chains.”  
Ac2630 Then the king rose, and the governor and Bernice and those who were sitting with them.  
Ac2631 And when they had withdrawn, they said to one another, “This man is doing nothing to deserve death or imprisonment.”  
Ac2632 And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”  
Ac2701 And when it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan Cohort named Julius.  
Ac2702 And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we put to sea, accompanied by Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica.  
Ac2703 The next day we put in at Sidon. And Julius treated Paul kindly and gave him leave to go to his friends and be cared for.  
Ac2704 And putting out to sea from there we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us.  
Ac2705 And when we had sailed across the open sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia.  
Ac2706 There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy and put us on board.  
Ac2707 We sailed slowly for a number of days and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus, and as the wind did not allow us to go farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone.  
Ac2708 Coasting along it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.  
Ac2709 Since much time had passed, and the voyage was now dangerous because even the Fast was already over, Paul advised them,  
Ac2710 saying, “Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”  
Ac2711 But the centurion paid more attention to the pilot and to the owner of the ship than to what Paul said.  
Ac2712 And because the harbor was not suitable to spend the winter in, the majority decided to put out to sea from there, on the chance that somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing both southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.  
Ac2713 Now when the south wind blew gently, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to the shore.  
Ac2714 But soon a tempestuous wind, called the northeaster, struck down from the land.  
Ac2715 And when the ship was caught and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.  
Ac2716 Running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we managed with difficulty to secure the ship’s boat.  
Ac2717 After hoisting it up, they used supports to undergird the ship. Then, fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the gear, and thus they were driven along.  
Ac2718 Since we were violently storm-tossed, they began the next day to jettison the cargo.  
Ac2719 And on the third day they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.  
Ac2720 When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.  
Ac2721 Since they had been without food for a long time, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not have set sail from Crete and incurred this injury and loss.  
Ac2722 Yet now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.  
Ac2723 For this very night there stood before me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship,  
Ac2724 and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’  
Ac2725 So take heart, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told.  
Ac2726 But we must run aground on some island.”  
Ac2727 When the fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land.  
Ac2728 So they took a sounding and found twenty fathoms. A little farther on they took a sounding again and found fifteen fathoms.  
Ac2729 And fearing that we might run on the rocks, they let down four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come.  
Ac2730 And as the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship, and had lowered the ship’s boat into the sea under pretense of laying out anchors from the bow,  
Ac2731 Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.”  
Ac2732 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship’s boat and let it go.  
Ac2733 As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have continued in suspense and without food, having taken nothing.  
Ac2734 Therefore I urge you to take some food. For it will give you strength, for not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you.”  
Ac2735 And when he had said these things, he took bread, and giving thanks to God in the presence of all he broke it and began to eat.  
Ac2736 Then they all were encouraged and ate some food themselves.  
Ac2737 (We were in all 276 persons in the ship.)  
Ac2738 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.  
Ac2739 Now when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, on which they planned if possible to run the ship ashore.  
Ac2740 So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes that tied the rudders. Then hoisting the foresail to the wind they made for the beach.  
Ac2741 But striking a reef, they ran the vessel aground. The bow stuck and remained immovable, and the stern was being broken up by the surf.  
Ac2742 The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, lest any should swim away and escape.  
Ac2743 But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and make for the land,  
Ac2744 and the rest on planks or on pieces of the ship. And so it was that all were brought safely to land.  
Ac2801 After we were brought safely through, we then learned that the island was called Malta.  
Ac2802 The native people showed us unusual kindness, for they kindled a fire and welcomed us all, because it had begun to rain and was cold.  
Ac2803 When Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and put them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened on his hand.  
Ac2804 When the native people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer. Though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”  
Ac2805 He, however, shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no harm.  
Ac2806 They were waiting for him to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But when they had waited a long time and saw no misfortune come to him, they changed their minds and said that he was a god.  
Ac2807 Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us and entertained us hospitably for three days.  
Ac2808 It happened that the father of Publius lay sick with fever and dysentery. And Paul visited him and prayed, and putting his hands on him, healed him.  
Ac2809 And when this had taken place, the rest of the people on the island who had diseases also came and were cured.  
Ac2810 They also honored us greatly, and when we were about to sail, they put on board whatever we needed.  
Ac2811 After three months we set sail in a ship that had wintered in the island, a ship of Alexandria, with the twin gods as a figurehead.  
Ac2812 Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there for three days.  
Ac2813 And from there we made a circuit and arrived at Rhegium. And after one day a south wind sprang up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli.  
Ac2814 There we found brothers and were invited to stay with them for seven days. And so we came to Rome.  
Ac2815 And the brothers there, when they heard about us, came as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns to meet us. On seeing them, Paul thanked God and took courage.  
Ac2816 And when we came into Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself, with the soldier who guarded him.  
Ac2817 After three days he called together the local leaders of the Jews, and when they had gathered, he said to them, “Brothers, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.  
Ac2818 When they had examined me, they wished to set me at liberty, because there was no reason for the death penalty in my case.  
Ac2819 But because the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar—though I had no charge to bring against my nation.  
Ac2820 For this reason, therefore, I have asked to see you and speak with you, since it is because of the hope of Israel that I am wearing this chain.”  
Ac2821 And they said to him, “We have received no letters from Judea about you, and none of the brothers coming here has reported or spoken any evil about you.  
Ac2822 But we desire to hear from you what your views are, for with regard to this sect we know that everywhere it is spoken against.”  
Ac2823 When they had appointed a day for him, they came to him at his lodging in greater numbers. From morning till evening he expounded to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.  
Ac2824 And some were convinced by what he said, but others disbelieved.  
Ac2825 And disagreeing among themselves, they departed after Paul had made one statement: “The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:  
Ac2826 “‘Go to this people, and say, “You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.”  
Ac2827 For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’  
Ac2828 Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen.”  
Ac2829  
Ac2830 He lived there two whole years at his own expense, and welcomed all who came to him,  
Ac2831 proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance.  
Ro0101 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,  
Ro0102 which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,  
Ro0103 concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh  
Ro0104 and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,  
Ro0105 through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,  
Ro0106 including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ,  
Ro0107 To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  
Ro0108 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.  
Ro0109 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you  
Ro0110 always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God’s will I may now at last succeed in coming to you.  
Ro0111 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—  
Ro0112 that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.  
Ro0113 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.  
Ro0114 I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.  
Ro0115 So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.  
Ro0116 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.  
Ro0117 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”  
Ro0118 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.  
Ro0119 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.  
Ro0120 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.  
Ro0121 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.  
Ro0122 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,  
Ro0123 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.  
Ro0124 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,  
Ro0125 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.  
Ro0126 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;  
Ro0127 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.  
Ro0128 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.  
Ro0129 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,  
Ro0130 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,  
Ro0131 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.  
Ro0132 Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.  
Ro0201 Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.  
Ro0202 We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things.  
Ro0203 Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?  
Ro0204 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?  
Ro0205 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.  
Ro0206 He will render to each one according to his works:  
Ro0207 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;  
Ro0208 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.  
Ro0209 There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,  
Ro0210 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.  
Ro0211 For God shows no partiality.  
Ro0212 For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.  
Ro0213 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.  
Ro0214 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.  
Ro0215 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them  
Ro0216 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.  
Ro0217 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God  
Ro0218 and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law;  
Ro0219 and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,  
Ro0220 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—  
Ro0221 you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?  
Ro0222 You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?  
Ro0223 You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.  
Ro0224 For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”  
Ro0225 For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.  
Ro0226 So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?  
Ro0227 Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.  
Ro0228 For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical.  
Ro0229 But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.  
Ro0301 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?  
Ro0302 Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.  
Ro0303 What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?  
Ro0304 By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.”  
Ro0305 But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)  
Ro0306 By no means! For then how could God judge the world?  
Ro0307 But if through my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?  
Ro0308 And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.  
Ro0309 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin,  
Ro0310 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;  
Ro0311 no one understands; no one seeks for God.  
Ro0312 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”  
Ro0313 “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.”  
Ro0314 “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”  
Ro0315 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;  
Ro0316 in their paths are ruin and misery,  
Ro0317 and the way of peace they have not known.”  
Ro0318 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”  
Ro0319 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.  
Ro0320 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.  
Ro0321 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—  
Ro0322 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:  
Ro0323 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,  
Ro0324 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,  
Ro0325 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.  
Ro0326 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.  
Ro0327 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.  
Ro0328 For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.  
Ro0329 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,  
Ro0330 since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.  
Ro0331 Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.  
Ro0401 What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh?  
Ro0402 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.  
Ro0403 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”  
Ro0404 Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.  
Ro0405 And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,  
Ro0406 just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:  
Ro0407 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;  
Ro0408 blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”  
Ro0409 Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.  
Ro0410 How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.  
Ro0411 He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,  
Ro0412 and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.  
Ro0413 For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.  
Ro0414 For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.  
Ro0415 For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.  
Ro0416 That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,  
Ro0417 as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.  
Ro0418 In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”  
Ro0419 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.  
Ro0420 No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,  
Ro0421 fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.  
Ro0422 That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.”  
Ro0423 But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone,  
Ro0424 but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,  
Ro0425 who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.  
Ro0501 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.  
Ro0502 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.  
Ro0503 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,  
Ro0504 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,  
Ro0505 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.  
Ro0506 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.  
Ro0507 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—  
Ro0508 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.  
Ro0509 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.  
Ro0510 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.  
Ro0511 More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.  
Ro0512 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—  
Ro0513 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.  
Ro0514 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.  
Ro0515 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.  
Ro0516 And the free gift is not like the result of that one man’s sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.  
Ro0517 For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.  
Ro0518 Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.  
Ro0519 For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.  
Ro0520 Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,  
Ro0521 so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.  
Ro0601 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?  
Ro0602 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?  
Ro0603 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?  
Ro0604 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.  
Ro0605 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.  
Ro0606 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.  
Ro0607 For one who has died has been set free from sin.  
Ro0608 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.  
Ro0609 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.  
Ro0610 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.  
Ro0611 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.  
Ro0612 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.  
Ro0613 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.  
Ro0614 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.  
Ro0615 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!  
Ro0616 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?  
Ro0617 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,  
Ro0618 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.  
Ro0619 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.  
Ro0620 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.  
Ro0621 But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.  
Ro0622 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.  
Ro0623 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.  
Ro0701 Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives?  
Ro0702 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.  
Ro0703 Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.  
Ro0704 Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.  
Ro0705 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.  
Ro0706 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.  
Ro0707 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”  
Ro0708 But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.  
Ro0709 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.  
Ro0710 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.  
Ro0711 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.  
Ro0712 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.  
Ro0713 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.  
Ro0714 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.  
Ro0715 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.  
Ro0716 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.  
Ro0717 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.  
Ro0718 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.  
Ro0719 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.  
Ro0720 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.  
Ro0721 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.  
Ro0722 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,  
Ro0723 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.  
Ro0724 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?  
Ro0725 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.  
Ro0801 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.  
Ro0802 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.  
Ro0803 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,  
Ro0804 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.  
Ro0805 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.  
Ro0806 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.  
Ro0807 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.  
Ro0808 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.  
Ro0809 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.  
Ro0810 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.  
Ro0811 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.  
Ro0812 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.  
Ro0813 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.  
Ro0814 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.  
Ro0815 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”  
Ro0816 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,  
Ro0817 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.  
Ro0818 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.  
Ro0819 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.  
Ro0820 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope  
Ro0821 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.  
Ro0822 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.  
Ro0823 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.  
Ro0824 For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?  
Ro0825 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.  
Ro0826 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.  
Ro0827 And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.  
Ro0828 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.  
Ro0829 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.  
Ro0830 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.  
Ro0831 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?  
Ro0832 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?  
Ro0833 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.  
Ro0834 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.  
Ro0835 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?  
Ro0836 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”  
Ro0837 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.  
Ro0838 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,  
Ro0839 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.  
Ro0901 I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit—  
Ro0902 that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.  
Ro0903 For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.  
Ro0904 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.  
Ro0905 To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.  
Ro0906 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,  
Ro0907 and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”  
Ro0908 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.  
Ro0909 For this is what the promise said: “About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.”  
Ro0910 And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,  
Ro0911 though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls—  
Ro0912 she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”  
Ro0913 As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”  
Ro0914 What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means!  
Ro0915 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”  
Ro0916 So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.  
Ro0917 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”  
Ro0918 So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.  
Ro0919 You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”  
Ro0920 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”  
Ro0921 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?  
Ro0922 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,  
Ro0923 in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—  
Ro0924 even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?  
Ro0925 As indeed he says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’”  
Ro0926 “And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”  
Ro0927 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved,  
Ro0928 for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.”  
Ro0929 And as Isaiah predicted, “If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring, we would have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah.”  
Ro0930 What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;  
Ro0931 but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.  
Ro0932 Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,  
Ro0933 as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”  
Ro1001 Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.  
Ro1002 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.  
Ro1003 For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.  
Ro1004 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.  
Ro1005 For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.  
Ro1006 But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down)  
Ro1007 “or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).  
Ro1008 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);  
Ro1009 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.  
Ro1010 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.  
Ro1011 For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”  
Ro1012 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.  
Ro1013 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”  
Ro1014 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?  
Ro1015 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”  
Ro1016 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?”  
Ro1017 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.  
Ro1018 But I ask, have they not heard? Indeed they have, for “Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.”  
Ro1019 But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, “I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you angry.”  
Ro1020 Then Isaiah is so bold as to say, “I have been found by those who did not seek me; I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me.”  
Ro1021 But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”  
Ro1101 I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.  
Ro1102 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?  
Ro1103 “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.”  
Ro1104 But what is God’s reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”  
Ro1105 So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.  
Ro1106 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.  
Ro1107 What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,  
Ro1108 as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.”  
Ro1109 And David says, “Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them;  
Ro1110 let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and bend their backs forever.”  
Ro1111 So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.  
Ro1112 Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean!  
Ro1113 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry  
Ro1114 in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.  
Ro1115 For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?  
Ro1116 If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.  
Ro1117 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree,  
Ro1118 do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.  
Ro1119 Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”  
Ro1120 That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear.  
Ro1121 For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.  
Ro1122 Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.  
Ro1123 And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.  
Ro1124 For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.  
Ro1125 Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.  
Ro1126 And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;  
Ro1127 “and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”  
Ro1128 As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.  
Ro1129 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.  
Ro1130 For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,  
Ro1131 so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now receive mercy.  
Ro1132 For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.  
Ro1133 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!  
Ro1134 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?”  
Ro1135 “Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?”  
Ro1136 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.  
Ro1201 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.  
Ro1202 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.  
Ro1203 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.  
Ro1204 For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function,  
Ro1205 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.  
Ro1206 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;  
Ro1207 if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching;  
Ro1208 the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.  
Ro1209 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.  
Ro1210 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.  
Ro1211 Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord.  
Ro1212 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.  
Ro1213 Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.  
Ro1214 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.  
Ro1215 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.  
Ro1216 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.  
Ro1217 Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.  
Ro1218 If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.  
Ro1219 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”  
Ro1220 To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”  
Ro1221 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.  
Ro1301 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.  
Ro1302 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.  
Ro1303 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,  
Ro1304 for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.  
Ro1305 Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience.  
Ro1306 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.  
Ro1307 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.  
Ro1308 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.  
Ro1309 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”  
Ro1310 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.  
Ro1311 Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.  
Ro1312 The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.  
Ro1313 Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.  
Ro1314 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.  
Ro1401 As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.  
Ro1402 One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.  
Ro1403 Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.  
Ro1404 Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.  
Ro1405 One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.  
Ro1406 The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God.  
Ro1407 For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.  
Ro1408 For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.  
Ro1409 For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.  
Ro1410 Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God;  
Ro1411 for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.”  
Ro1412 So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.  
Ro1413 Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.  
Ro1414 I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean.  
Ro1415 For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.  
Ro1416 So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil.  
Ro1417 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.  
Ro1418 Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.  
Ro1419 So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.  
Ro1420 Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to make another stumble by what he eats.  
Ro1421 It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.  
Ro1422 The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who has no reason to pass judgment on himself for what he approves.  
Ro1423 But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.  
Ro1501 We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.  
Ro1502 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.  
Ro1503 For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”  
Ro1504 For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.  
Ro1505 May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,  
Ro1506 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.  
Ro1507 Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.  
Ro1508 For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God’s truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,  
Ro1509 and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.”  
Ro1510 And again it is said, “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people.”  
Ro1511 And again, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and let all the peoples extol him.”  
Ro1512 And again Isaiah says, “The root of Jesse will come, even he who arises to rule the Gentiles; in him will the Gentiles hope.”  
Ro1513 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.  
Ro1514 I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.  
Ro1515 But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God  
Ro1516 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.  
Ro1517 In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God.  
Ro1518 For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed,  
Ro1519 by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ;  
Ro1520 and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else’s foundation,  
Ro1521 but as it is written, “Those who have never been told of him will see, and those who have never heard will understand.”  
Ro1522 This is the reason why I have so often been hindered from coming to you.  
Ro1523 But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to you,  
Ro1524 I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be helped on my journey there by you, once I have enjoyed your company for a while.  
Ro1525 At present, however, I am going to Jerusalem bringing aid to the saints.  
Ro1526 For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.  
Ro1527 For they were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.  
Ro1528 When therefore I have completed this and have delivered to them what has been collected, I will leave for Spain by way of you.  
Ro1529 I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.  
Ro1530 I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,  
Ro1531 that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,  
Ro1532 so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.  
Ro1533 May the God of peace be with you all. Amen.  
Ro1601 I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,  
Ro1602 that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well.  
Ro1603 Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,  
Ro1604 who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks but all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks as well.  
Ro1605 Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia.  
Ro1606 Greet Mary, who has worked hard for you.  
Ro1607 Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.  
Ro1608 Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord.  
Ro1609 Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys.  
Ro1610 Greet Apelles, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the family of Aristobulus.  
Ro1611 Greet my kinsman Herodion. Greet those in the Lord who belong to the family of Narcissus.  
Ro1612 Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Greet the beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.  
Ro1613 Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord; also his mother, who has been a mother to me as well.  
Ro1614 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them.  
Ro1615 Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.  
Ro1616 Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.  
Ro1617 I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.  
Ro1618 For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.  
Ro1619 For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.  
Ro1620 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.  
Ro1621 Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.  
Ro1622 I Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord.  
Ro1623 Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you.  
Ro1624  
Ro1625 Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages  
Ro1626 but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—  
Ro1627 to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.  
1C0101 Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,  
1C0102 To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:  
1C0103 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  
1C0104 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,  
1C0105 that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge—  
1C0106 even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you—  
1C0107 so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,  
1C0108 who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.  
1C0109 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.  
1C0110 I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.  
1C0111 For it has been reported to me by Chloe’s people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers.  
1C0112 What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”  
1C0113 Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?  
1C0114 I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,  
1C0115 so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name.  
1C0116 (I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.)  
1C0117 For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.  
1C0118 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.  
1C0119 For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”  
1C0120 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?  
1C0121 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.  
1C0122 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,  
1C0123 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,  
1C0124 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.  
1C0125 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.  
1C0126 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.  
1C0127 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;  
1C0128 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,  
1C0129 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.  
1C0130 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,  
1C0131 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”  
1C0201 And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.  
1C0202 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.  
1C0203 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling,  
1C0204 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,  
1C0205 so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.  
1C0206 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.  
1C0207 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.  
1C0208 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.  
1C0209 But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—  
1C0210 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.  
1C0211 For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.  
1C0212 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.  
1C0213 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.  
1C0214 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.  
1C0215 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.  
1C0216 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.  
1C0301 But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.  
1C0302 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,  
1C0303 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?  
1C0304 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human?  
1C0305 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.  
1C0306 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.  
1C0307 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.  
1C0308 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.  
1C0309 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.  
1C0310 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.  
1C0311 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.  
1C0312 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—  
1C0313 each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.  
1C0314 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.  
1C0315 If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.  
1C0316 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?  
1C0317 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.  
1C0318 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.  
1C0319 For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”  
1C0320 and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.”  
1C0321 So let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,  
1C0322 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours,  
1C0323 and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.  
1C0401 This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.  
1C0402 Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.  
1C0403 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.  
1C0404 For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.  
1C0405 Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.  
1C0406 I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.  
1C0407 For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?  
1C0408 Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!  
1C0409 For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.  
1C0410 We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.  
1C0411 To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless,  
1C0412 and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;  
1C0413 when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.  
1C0414 I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.  
1C0415 For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.  
1C0416 I urge you, then, be imitators of me.  
1C0417 That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.  
1C0418 Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.  
1C0419 But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power.  
1C0420 For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.  
1C0421 What do you wish? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?  
1C0501 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife.  
1C0502 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.  
1C0503 For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.  
1C0504 When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus,  
1C0505 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.  
1C0506 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?  
1C0507 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.  
1C0508 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.  
1C0509 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—  
1C0510 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.  
1C0511 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.  
1C0512 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge?  
1C0513 God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”  
1C0601 When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?  
1C0602 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?  
1C0603 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!  
1C0604 So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church?  
1C0605 I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers,  
1C0606 but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?  
1C0607 To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?  
1C0608 But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!  
1C0609 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,  
1C0610 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.  
1C0611 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.  
1C0612 “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.  
1C0613 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.  
1C0614 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us up by his power.  
1C0615 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!  
1C0616 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.”  
1C0617 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.  
1C0618 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.  
1C0619 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,  
1C0620 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.  
1C0701 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”  
1C0702 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.  
1C0703 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.  
1C0704 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.  
1C0705 Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.  
1C0706 Now as a concession, not a command, I say this.  
1C0707 I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.  
1C0708 To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am.  
1C0709 But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.  
1C0710 To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband  
1C0711 (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.  
1C0712 To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.  
1C0713 If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.  
1C0714 For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.  
1C0715 But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.  
1C0716 For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?  
1C0717 Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.  
1C0718 Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision.  
1C0719 For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God.  
1C0720 Each one should remain in the condition in which he was called.  
1C0721 Were you a bondservant when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)  
1C0722 For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ.  
1C0723 You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men.  
1C0724 So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God.  
1C0725 Now concerning the betrothed, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy.  
1C0726 I think that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is.  
1C0727 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.  
1C0728 But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.  
1C0729 This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,  
1C0730 and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods,  
1C0731 and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.  
1C0732 I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.  
1C0733 But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife,  
1C0734 and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband.  
1C0735 I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.  
1C0736 If anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry—it is no sin.  
1C0737 But whoever is firmly established in his heart, being under no necessity but having his desire under control, and has determined this in his heart, to keep her as his betrothed, he will do well.  
1C0738 So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better.  
1C0739 A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.  
1C0740 Yet in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God.  
1C0801 Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.  
1C0802 If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.  
1C0803 But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.  
1C0804 Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.”  
1C0805 For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”—  
1C0806 yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.  
1C0807 However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.  
1C0808 Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.  
1C0809 But take care that this right of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.  
1C0810 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?  
1C0811 And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.  
1C0812 Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.  
1C0813 Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will never eat meat, lest I make my brother stumble.  
1C0901 Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?  
1C0902 If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.  
1C0903 This is my defense to those who would examine me.  
1C0904 Do we not have the right to eat and drink?  
1C0905 Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?  
1C0906 Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working for a living?  
1C0907 Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?  
1C0908 Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same?  
1C0909 For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned?  
1C0910 Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.  
1C0911 If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you?  
1C0912 If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.  
1C0913 Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings?  
1C0914 In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.  
1C0915 But I have made no use of any of these rights, nor am I writing these things to secure any such provision. For I would rather die than have anyone deprive me of my ground for boasting.  
1C0916 For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!  
1C0917 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship.  
1C0918 What then is my reward? That in my preaching I may present the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.  
1C0919 For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.  
1C0920 To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law.  
1C0921 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.  
1C0922 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.  
1C0923 I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.  
1C0924 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.  
1C0925 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.  
1C0926 So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.  
1C0927 But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.  
1C1001 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,  
1C1002 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,  
1C1003 and all ate the same spiritual food,  
1C1004 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.  
1C1005 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.  
1C1006 Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.  
1C1007 Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”  
1C1008 We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.  
1C1009 We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents,  
1C1010 nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.  
1C1011 Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.  
1C1012 Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.  
1C1013 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.  
1C1014 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.  
1C1015 I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.  
1C1016 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?  
1C1017 Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.  
1C1018 Consider the people of Israel: are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?  
1C1019 What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?  
1C1020 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.  
1C1021 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.  
1C1022 Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?  
1C1023 “All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.  
1C1024 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.  
1C1025 Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.  
1C1026 For “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”  
1C1027 If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.  
1C1028 But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience—  
1C1029 I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else’s conscience?  
1C1030 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?  
1C1031 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.  
1C1032 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,  
1C1033 just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.  
1C1101 Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.  
1C1102 Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.  
1C1103 But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.  
1C1104 Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head,  
1C1105 but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven.  
1C1106 For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head.  
1C1107 For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.  
1C1108 For man was not made from woman, but woman from man.  
1C1109 Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.  
1C1110 That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.  
1C1111 Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;  
1C1112 for as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God.  
1C1113 Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered?  
1C1114 Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him,  
1C1115 but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.  
1C1116 If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God.  
1C1117 But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.  
1C1118 For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,  
1C1119 for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.  
1C1120 When you come together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.  
1C1121 For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk.  
1C1122 What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.  
1C1123 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread,  
1C1124 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”  
1C1125 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”  
1C1126 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.  
1C1127 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord.  
1C1128 Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.  
1C1129 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.  
1C1130 That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.  
1C1131 But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.  
1C1132 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world.  
1C1133 So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another—  
1C1134 if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home—so that when you come together it will not be for judgment. About the other things I will give directions when I come.  
1C1201 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.  
1C1202 You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led.  
1C1203 Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.  
1C1204 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;  
1C1205 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;  
1C1206 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.  
1C1207 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.  
1C1208 For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,  
1C1209 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,  
1C1210 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.  
1C1211 All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.  
1C1212 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.  
1C1213 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.  
1C1214 For the body does not consist of one member but of many.  
1C1215 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.  
1C1216 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.  
1C1217 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?  
1C1218 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.  
1C1219 If all were a single member, where would the body be?  
1C1220 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.  
1C1221 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”  
1C1222 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,  
1C1223 and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,  
1C1224 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,  
1C1225 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.  
1C1226 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.  
1C1227 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.  
1C1228 And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.  
1C1229 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?  
1C1230 Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?  
1C1231 But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.  
1C1301 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.  
1C1302 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.  
1C1303 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.  
1C1304 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant  
1C1305 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;  
1C1306 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.  
1C1307 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  
1C1308 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.  
1C1309 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,  
1C1310 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.  
1C1311 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.  
1C1312 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.  
1C1313 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.  
1C1401 Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.  
1C1402 For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.  
1C1403 On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.  
1C1404 The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.  
1C1405 Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.  
1C1406 Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?  
1C1407 If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played?  
1C1408 And if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle?  
1C1409 So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air.  
1C1410 There are doubtless many different languages in the world, and none is without meaning,  
1C1411 but if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker a foreigner to me.  
1C1412 So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.  
1C1413 Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.  
1C1414 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.  
1C1415 What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.  
1C1416 Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say “Amen” to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?  
1C1417 For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up.  
1C1418 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.  
1C1419 Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.  
1C1420 Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.  
1C1421 In the Law it is written, “By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.”  
1C1422 Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.  
1C1423 If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds?  
1C1424 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,  
1C1425 the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you.  
1C1426 What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.  
1C1427 If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret.  
1C1428 But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.  
1C1429 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.  
1C1430 If a revelation is made to another sitting there, let the first be silent.  
1C1431 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged,  
1C1432 and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.  
1C1433 For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,  
1C1434 the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.  
1C1435 If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.  
1C1436 Or was it from you that the word of God came? Or are you the only ones it has reached?  
1C1437 If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are a command of the Lord.  
1C1438 If anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.  
1C1439 So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.  
1C1440 But all things should be done decently and in order.  
1C1501 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand,  
1C1502 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.  
1C1503 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,  
1C1504 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,  
1C1505 and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.  
1C1506 Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.  
1C1507 Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.  
1C1508 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.  
1C1509 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.  
1C1510 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.  
1C1511 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.  
1C1512 Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?  
1C1513 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.  
1C1514 And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.  
1C1515 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.  
1C1516 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised.  
1C1517 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.  
1C1518 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.  
1C1519 If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.  
1C1520 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.  
1C1521 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.  
1C1522 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.  
1C1523 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.  
1C1524 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.  
1C1525 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.  
1C1526 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.  
1C1527 For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him.  
1C1528 When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.  
1C1529 Otherwise, what do people mean by being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?  
1C1530 Why are we in danger every hour?  
1C1531 I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!  
1C1532 What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”  
1C1533 Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”  
1C1534 Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.  
1C1535 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?”  
1C1536 You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.  
1C1537 And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.  
1C1538 But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.  
1C1539 For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.  
1C1540 There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another.  
1C1541 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.  
1C1542 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.  
1C1543 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.  
1C1544 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.  
1C1545 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.  
1C1546 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.  
1C1547 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.  
1C1548 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.  
1C1549 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.  
1C1550 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.  
1C1551 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,  
1C1552 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.  
1C1553 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.  
1C1554 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”  
1C1555 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”  
1C1556 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.  
1C1557 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  
1C1558 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.  
1C1601 Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.  
1C1602 On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.  
1C1603 And when I arrive, I will send those whom you accredit by letter to carry your gift to Jerusalem.  
1C1604 If it seems advisable that I should go also, they will accompany me.  
1C1605 I will visit you after passing through Macedonia, for I intend to pass through Macedonia,  
1C1606 and perhaps I will stay with you or even spend the winter, so that you may help me on my journey, wherever I go.  
1C1607 For I do not want to see you now just in passing. I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.  
1C1608 But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,  
1C1609 for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.  
1C1610 When Timothy comes, see that you put him at ease among you, for he is doing the work of the Lord, as I am.  
1C1611 So let no one despise him. Help him on his way in peace, that he may return to me, for I am expecting him with the brothers.  
1C1612 Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers, but it was not at all his will to come now. He will come when he has opportunity.  
1C1613 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.  
1C1614 Let all that you do be done in love.  
1C1615 Now I urge you, brothers—you know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of the saints—  
1C1616 be subject to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer.  
1C1617 I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because they have made up for your absence,  
1C1618 for they refreshed my spirit as well as yours. Give recognition to such people.  
1C1619 The churches of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Prisca, together with the church in their house, send you hearty greetings in the Lord.  
1C1620 All the brothers send you greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.  
1C1621 I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand.  
1C1622 If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!  
1C1623 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.  
1C1624 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.  
2C0101 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:  
2C0102 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  
2C0103 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,  
2C0104 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.  
2C0105 For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.  
2C0106 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.  
2C0107 Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.  
2C0108 For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.  
2C0109 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.  
2C0110 He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.  
2C0111 You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.  
2C0112 For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.  
2C0113 For we are not writing to you anything other than what you read and understand and I hope you will fully understand—  
2C0114 just as you did partially understand us—that on the day of our Lord Jesus you will boast of us as we will boast of you.  
2C0115 Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come to you first, so that you might have a second experience of grace.  
2C0116 I wanted to visit you on my way to Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia and have you send me on my way to Judea.  
2C0117 Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do I make my plans according to the flesh, ready to say “Yes, yes” and “No, no” at the same time?  
2C0118 As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No.  
2C0119 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes.  
2C0120 For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.  
2C0121 And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us,  
2C0122 and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.  
2C0123 But I call God to witness against me—it was to spare you that I refrained from coming again to Corinth.  
2C0124 Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.  
2C0201 For I made up my mind not to make another painful visit to you.  
2C0202 For if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained?  
2C0203 And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all.  
2C0204 For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.  
2C0205 Now if anyone has caused pain, he has caused it not to me, but in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you.  
2C0206 For such a one, this punishment by the majority is enough,  
2C0207 so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.  
2C0208 So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.  
2C0209 For this is why I wrote, that I might test you and know whether you are obedient in everything.  
2C0210 Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ,  
2C0211 so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.  
2C0212 When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord,  
2C0213 my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.  
2C0214 But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.  
2C0215 For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,  
2C0216 to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?  
2C0217 For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.  
2C0301 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you?  
2C0302 You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all.  
2C0303 And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.  
2C0304 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.  
2C0305 Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,  
2C0306 who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.  
2C0307 Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end,  
2C0308 will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory?  
2C0309 For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.  
2C0310 Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that surpasses it.  
2C0311 For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory.  
2C0312 Since we have such a hope, we are very bold,  
2C0313 not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end.  
2C0314 But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.  
2C0315 Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts.  
2C0316 But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.  
2C0317 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.  
2C0318 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.  
2C0401 Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.  
2C0402 But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.  
2C0403 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.  
2C0404 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.  
2C0405 For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.  
2C0406 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.  
2C0407 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.  
2C0408 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair;  
2C0409 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;  
2C0410 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.  
2C0411 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.  
2C0412 So death is at work in us, but life in you.  
2C0413 Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,  
2C0414 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.  
2C0415 For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.  
2C0416 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.  
2C0417 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,  
2C0418 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.  
2C0501 For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.  
2C0502 For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling,  
2C0503 if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked.  
2C0504 For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.  
2C0505 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.  
2C0506 So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,  
2C0507 for we walk by faith, not by sight.  
2C0508 Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.  
2C0509 So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.  
2C0510 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.  
2C0511 Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience.  
2C0512 We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart.  
2C0513 For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.  
2C0514 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;  
2C0515 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.  
2C0516 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.  
2C0517 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.  
2C0518 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;  
2C0519 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.  
2C0520 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.  
2C0521 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.  
2C0601 Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.  
2C0602 For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.  
2C0603 We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry,  
2C0604 but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities,  
2C0605 beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;  
2C0606 by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love;  
2C0607 by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;  
2C0608 through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true;  
2C0609 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed;  
2C0610 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.  
2C0611 We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians; our heart is wide open.  
2C0612 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections.  
2C0613 In return (I speak as to children) widen your hearts also.  
2C0614 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?  
2C0615 What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?  
2C0616 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  
2C0617 Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,  
2C0618 and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”  
2C0701 Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.  
2C0702 Make room in your hearts for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one.  
2C0703 I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together.  
2C0704 I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.  
2C0705 For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within.  
2C0706 But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,  
2C0707 and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.  
2C0708 For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it—though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while.  
2C0709 As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us.  
2C0710 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.  
2C0711 For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.  
2C0712 So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one who did the wrong, nor for the sake of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your earnestness for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God.  
2C0713 Therefore we are comforted. And besides our own comfort, we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.  
2C0714 For whatever boasts I made to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you was true, so also our boasting before Titus has proved true.  
2C0715 And his affection for you is even greater, as he remembers the obedience of you all, how you received him with fear and trembling.  
2C0716 I rejoice, because I have complete confidence in you.  
2C0801 We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia,  
2C0802 for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.  
2C0803 For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord,  
2C0804 begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints—  
2C0805 and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us.  
2C0806 Accordingly, we urged Titus that as he had started, so he should complete among you this act of grace.  
2C0807 But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.  
2C0808 I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.  
2C0809 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.  
2C0810 And in this matter I give my judgment: this benefits you, who a year ago started not only to do this work but also to desire to do it.  
2C0811 So now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have.  
2C0812 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.  
2C0813 For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness  
2C0814 your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness.  
2C0815 As it is written, “Whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack.”  
2C0816 But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same earnest care I have for you.  
2C0817 For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest he is going to you of his own accord.  
2C0818 With him we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel.  
2C0819 And not only that, but he has been appointed by the churches to travel with us as we carry out this act of grace that is being ministered by us, for the glory of the Lord himself and to show our good will.  
2C0820 We take this course so that no one should blame us about this generous gift that is being administered by us,  
2C0821 for we aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord’s sight but also in the sight of man.  
2C0822 And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and found earnest in many matters, but who is now more earnest than ever because of his great confidence in you.  
2C0823 As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for your benefit. And as for our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.  
2C0824 So give proof before the churches of your love and of our boasting about you to these men.  
2C0901 Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the ministry for the saints,  
2C0902 for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them.  
2C0903 But I am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you may not prove empty in this matter, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be.  
2C0904 Otherwise, if some Macedonians come with me and find that you are not ready, we would be humiliated—to say nothing of you—for being so confident.  
2C0905 So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for the gift you have promised, so that it may be ready as a willing gift, not as an exaction.  
2C0906 The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.  
2C0907 Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.  
2C0908 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.  
2C0909 As it is written, “He has distributed freely, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.”  
2C0910 He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.  
2C0911 You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.  
2C0912 For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God.  
2C0913 By their approval of this service, they will glorify God because of your submission that comes from your confession of the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of your contribution for them and for all others,  
2C0914 while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God upon you.  
2C0915 Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!  
2C1001 I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!—  
2C1002 I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh.  
2C1003 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh.  
2C1004 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.  
2C1005 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,  
2C1006 being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.  
2C1007 Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ’s, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we.  
2C1008 For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed.  
2C1009 I do not want to appear to be frightening you with my letters.  
2C1010 For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.”  
2C1011 Let such a person understand that what we say by letter when absent, we do when present.  
2C1012 Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.  
2C1013 But we will not boast beyond limits, but will boast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us, to reach even to you.  
2C1014 For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ.  
2C1015 We do not boast beyond limit in the labors of others. But our hope is that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you may be greatly enlarged,  
2C1016 so that we may preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work already done in another’s area of influence.  
2C1017 “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”  
2C1018 For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.  
2C1101 I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me!  
2C1102 For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.  
2C1103 But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.  
2C1104 For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.  
2C1105 Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.  
2C1106 Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge; indeed, in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.  
2C1107 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God’s gospel to you free of charge?  
2C1108 I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.  
2C1109 And when I was with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need. So I refrained and will refrain from burdening you in any way.  
2C1110 As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.  
2C1111 And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!  
2C1112 And what I am doing I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do.  
2C1113 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.  
2C1114 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.  
2C1115 So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.  
2C1116 I repeat, let no one think me foolish. But even if you do, accept me as a fool, so that I too may boast a little.  
2C1117 What I am saying with this boastful confidence, I say not as the Lord would but as a fool.  
2C1118 Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast.  
2C1119 For you gladly bear with fools, being wise yourselves!  
2C1120 For you bear it if someone makes slaves of you, or devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face.  
2C1121 To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that! But whatever anyone else dares to boast of—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast of that.  
2C1122 Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I.  
2C1123 Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.  
2C1124 Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one.  
2C1125 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea;  
2C1126 on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers;  
2C1127 in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.  
2C1128 And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.  
2C1129 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant?  
2C1130 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.  
2C1131 The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.  
2C1132 At Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of Damascus in order to seize me,  
2C1133 but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.  
2C1201 I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.  
2C1202 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.  
2C1203 And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows—  
2C1204 and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter.  
2C1205 On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses—  
2C1206 though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.  
2C1207 So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.  
2C1208 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me.  
2C1209 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.  
2C1210 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.  
2C1211 I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.  
2C1212 The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.  
2C1213 For in what were you less favored than the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!  
2C1214 Here for the third time I am ready to come to you. And I will not be a burden, for I seek not what is yours but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.  
2C1215 I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?  
2C1216 But granting that I myself did not burden you, I was crafty, you say, and got the better of you by deceit.  
2C1217 Did I take advantage of you through any of those whom I sent to you?  
2C1218 I urged Titus to go, and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage of you? Did we not act in the same spirit? Did we not take the same steps?  
2C1219 Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.  
2C1220 For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.  
2C1221 I fear that when I come again my God may humble me before you, and I may have to mourn over many of those who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality that they have practiced.  
2C1301 This is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.  
2C1302 I warned those who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that if I come again I will not spare them—  
2C1303 since you seek proof that Christ is speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you.  
2C1304 For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.  
2C1305 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!  
2C1306 I hope you will find out that we have not failed the test.  
2C1307 But we pray to God that you may not do wrong—not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed.  
2C1308 For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.  
2C1309 For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for.  
2C1310 For this reason I write these things while I am away from you, that when I come I may not have to be severe in my use of the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.  
2C1311 Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.  
2C1312 Greet one another with a holy kiss.  
2C1313 All the saints greet you.  
2C1314 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.  
Ga0101 Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—  
Ga0102 and all the brothers who are with me, To the churches of Galatia:  
Ga0103 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,  
Ga0104 who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,  
Ga0105 to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.  
Ga0106 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—  
Ga0107 not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.  
Ga0108 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.  
Ga0109 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.  
Ga0110 For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.  
Ga0111 For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man’s gospel.  
Ga0112 For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.  
Ga0113 For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it.  
Ga0114 And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.  
Ga0115 But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace,  
Ga0116 was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;  
Ga0117 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.  
Ga0118 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and remained with him fifteen days.  
Ga0119 But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord’s brother.  
Ga0120 (In what I am writing to you, before God, I do not lie!)  
Ga0121 Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.  
Ga0122 And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.  
Ga0123 They only were hearing it said, “He who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”  
Ga0124 And they glorified God because of me.  
Ga0201 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.  
Ga0202 I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those who seemed influential) the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain.  
Ga0203 But even Titus, who was with me, was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek.  
Ga0204 Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery—  
Ga0205 to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you.  
Ga0206 And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me.  
Ga0207 On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised  
Ga0208 (for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles),  
Ga0209 and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.  
Ga0210 Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.  
Ga0211 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.  
Ga0212 For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party.  
Ga0213 And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.  
Ga0214 But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”  
Ga0215 We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners;  
Ga0216 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.  
Ga0217 But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!  
Ga0218 For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor.  
Ga0219 For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.  
Ga0220 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.  
Ga0221 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.  
Ga0301 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.  
Ga0302 Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?  
Ga0303 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?  
Ga0304 Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?  
Ga0305 Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith—  
Ga0306 just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?  
Ga0307 Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.  
Ga0308 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”  
Ga0309 So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.  
Ga0310 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”  
Ga0311 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”  
Ga0312 But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”  
Ga0313 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—  
Ga0314 so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.  
Ga0315 To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.  
Ga0316 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ.  
Ga0317 This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.  
Ga0318 For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.  
Ga0319 Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made, and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary.  
Ga0320 Now an intermediary implies more than one, but God is one.  
Ga0321 Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.  
Ga0322 But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.  
Ga0323 Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed.  
Ga0324 So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.  
Ga0325 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,  
Ga0326 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.  
Ga0327 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.  
Ga0328 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.  
Ga0329 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.  
Ga0401 I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything,  
Ga0402 but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.  
Ga0403 In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.  
Ga0404 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,  
Ga0405 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.  
Ga0406 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”  
Ga0407 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.  
Ga0408 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods.  
Ga0409 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?  
Ga0410 You observe days and months and seasons and years!  
Ga0411 I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.  
Ga0412 Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong.  
Ga0413 You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first,  
Ga0414 and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.  
Ga0415 What then has become of your blessedness? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me.  
Ga0416 Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?  
Ga0417 They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them.  
Ga0418 It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you,  
Ga0419 my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!  
Ga0420 I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.  
Ga0421 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?  
Ga0422 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman.  
Ga0423 But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.  
Ga0424 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar.  
Ga0425 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.  
Ga0426 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.  
Ga0427 For it is written, “Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.”  
Ga0428 Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.  
Ga0429 But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.  
Ga0430 But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.”  
Ga0431 So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.  
Ga0501 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.  
Ga0502 Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.  
Ga0503 I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.  
Ga0504 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.  
Ga0505 For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.  
Ga0506 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.  
Ga0507 You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?  
Ga0508 This persuasion is not from him who calls you.  
Ga0509 A little leaven leavens the whole lump.  
Ga0510 I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.  
Ga0511 But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.  
Ga0512 I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!  
Ga0513 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.  
Ga0514 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”  
Ga0515 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.  
Ga0516 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.  
Ga0517 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.  
Ga0518 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.  
Ga0519 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,  
Ga0520 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,  
Ga0521 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.  
Ga0522 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  
Ga0523 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.  
Ga0524 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.  
Ga0525 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.  
Ga0526 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.  
Ga0601 Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.  
Ga0602 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.  
Ga0603 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.  
Ga0604 But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.  
Ga0605 For each will have to bear his own load.  
Ga0606 Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches.  
Ga0607 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.  
Ga0608 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.  
Ga0609 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.  
Ga0610 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.  
Ga0611 See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.  
Ga0612 It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.  
Ga0613 For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.  
Ga0614 But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.  
Ga0615 For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.  
Ga0616 And as for all who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.  
Ga0617 From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.  
Ga0618 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen.  
Ep0101 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:  
Ep0102 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  
Ep0103 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,  
Ep0104 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love  
Ep0105 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,  
Ep0106 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.  
Ep0107 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,  
Ep0108 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight  
Ep0109 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ  
Ep0110 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.  
Ep0111 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,  
Ep0112 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.  
Ep0113 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,  
Ep0114 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.  
Ep0115 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,  
Ep0116 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,  
Ep0117 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,  
Ep0118 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,  
Ep0119 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might  
Ep0120 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,  
Ep0121 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.  
Ep0122 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,  
Ep0123 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.  
Ep0201 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins  
Ep0202 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—  
Ep0203 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.  
Ep0204 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,  
Ep0205 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—  
Ep0206 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,  
Ep0207 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.  
Ep0208 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,  
Ep0209 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.  
Ep0210 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.  
Ep0211 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands—  
Ep0212 remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.  
Ep0213 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.  
Ep0214 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility  
Ep0215 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,  
Ep0216 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.  
Ep0217 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.  
Ep0218 For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.  
Ep0219 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,  
Ep0220 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,  
Ep0221 in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.  
Ep0222 In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.  
Ep0301 For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles—  
Ep0302 assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you,  
Ep0303 how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly.  
Ep0304 When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ,  
Ep0305 which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.  
Ep0306 This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.  
Ep0307 Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by the working of his power.  
Ep0308 To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,  
Ep0309 and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things,  
Ep0310 so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.  
Ep0311 This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,  
Ep0312 in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.  
Ep0313 So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.  
Ep0314 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,  
Ep0315 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,  
Ep0316 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,  
Ep0317 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,  
Ep0318 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,  
Ep0319 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.  
Ep0320 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,  
Ep0321 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.  
Ep0401 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,  
Ep0402 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,  
Ep0403 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.  
Ep0404 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—  
Ep0405 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,  
Ep0406 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.  
Ep0407 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift.  
Ep0408 Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.”  
Ep0409 (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth?  
Ep0410 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)  
Ep0411 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,  
Ep0412 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,  
Ep0413 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,  
Ep0414 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.  
Ep0415 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,  
Ep0416 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.  
Ep0417 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.  
Ep0418 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.  
Ep0419 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.  
Ep0420 But that is not the way you learned Christ!—  
Ep0421 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,  
Ep0422 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,  
Ep0423 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,  
Ep0424 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.  
Ep0425 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.  
Ep0426 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,  
Ep0427 and give no opportunity to the devil.  
Ep0428 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.  
Ep0429 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.  
Ep0430 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.  
Ep0431 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.  
Ep0432 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.  
Ep0501 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.  
Ep0502 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.  
Ep0503 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.  
Ep0504 Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.  
Ep0505 For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.  
Ep0506 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.  
Ep0507 Therefore do not become partners with them;  
Ep0508 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light  
Ep0509 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),  
Ep0510 and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.  
Ep0511 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.  
Ep0512 For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.  
Ep0513 But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible,  
Ep0514 for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”  
Ep0515 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,  
Ep0516 making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.  
Ep0517 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.  
Ep0518 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,  
Ep0519 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,  
Ep0520 giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,  
Ep0521 submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.  
Ep0522 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.  
Ep0523 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.  
Ep0524 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.  
Ep0525 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,  
Ep0526 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,  
Ep0527 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.  
Ep0528 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.  
Ep0529 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,  
Ep0530 because we are members of his body.  
Ep0531 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”  
Ep0532 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.  
Ep0533 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.  
Ep0601 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.  
Ep0602 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),  
Ep0603 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”  
Ep0604 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.  
Ep0605 Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,  
Ep0606 not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,  
Ep0607 rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man,  
Ep0608 knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free.  
Ep0609 Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.  
Ep0610 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.  
Ep0611 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.  
Ep0612 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.  
Ep0613 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.  
Ep0614 Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,  
Ep0615 and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.  
Ep0616 In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;  
Ep0617 and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,  
Ep0618 praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,  
Ep0619 and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel,  
Ep0620 for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.  
Ep0621 So that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you everything.  
Ep0622 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage your hearts.  
Ep0623 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  
Ep0624 Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.  
Ph0101 Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:  
Ph0102 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  
Ph0103 I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,  
Ph0104 always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy,  
Ph0105 because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.  
Ph0106 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.  
Ph0107 It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel.  
Ph0108 For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.  
Ph0109 And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,  
Ph0110 so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,  
Ph0111 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.  
Ph0112 I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel,  
Ph0113 so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ.  
Ph0114 And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.  
Ph0115 Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.  
Ph0116 The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.  
Ph0117 The former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment.  
Ph0118 What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice,  
Ph0119 for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance,  
Ph0120 as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.  
Ph0121 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.  
Ph0122 If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell.  
Ph0123 I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.  
Ph0124 But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account.  
Ph0125 Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all, for your progress and joy in the faith,  
Ph0126 so that in me you may have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus, because of my coming to you again.  
Ph0127 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,  
Ph0128 and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is a clear sign to them of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God.  
Ph0129 For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,  
Ph0130 engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have.  
Ph0201 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,  
Ph0202 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.  
Ph0203 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.  
Ph0204 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.  
Ph0205 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,  
Ph0206 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,  
Ph0207 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.  
Ph0208 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.  
Ph0209 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,  
Ph0210 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,  
Ph0211 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.  
Ph0212 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,  
Ph0213 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.  
Ph0214 Do all things without grumbling or disputing,  
Ph0215 that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,  
Ph0216 holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.  
Ph0217 Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.  
Ph0218 Likewise you also should be glad and rejoice with me.  
Ph0219 I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by news of you.  
Ph0220 For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.  
Ph0221 For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.  
Ph0222 But you know Timothy’s proven worth, how as a son with a father he has served with me in the gospel.  
Ph0223 I hope therefore to send him just as soon as I see how it will go with me,  
Ph0224 and I trust in the Lord that shortly I myself will come also.  
Ph0225 I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need,  
Ph0226 for he has been longing for you all and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.  
Ph0227 Indeed he was ill, near to death. But God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.  
Ph0228 I am the more eager to send him, therefore, that you may rejoice at seeing him again, and that I may be less anxious.  
Ph0229 So receive him in the Lord with all joy, and honor such men,  
Ph0230 for he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was lacking in your service to me.  
Ph0301 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.  
Ph0302 Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.  
Ph0303 For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh—  
Ph0304 though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more:  
Ph0305 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;  
Ph0306 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.  
Ph0307 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.  
Ph0308 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ  
Ph0309 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—  
Ph0310 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,  
Ph0311 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.  
Ph0312 Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.  
Ph0313 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,  
Ph0314 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.  
Ph0315 Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.  
Ph0316 Only let us hold true to what we have attained.  
Ph0317 Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.  
Ph0318 For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ.  
Ph0319 Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things.  
Ph0320 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,  
Ph0321 who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.  
Ph0401 Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved.  
Ph0402 I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord.  
Ph0403 Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.  
Ph0404 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.  
Ph0405 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;  
Ph0406 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.  
Ph0407 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.  
Ph0408 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.  
Ph0409 What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.  
Ph0410 I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity.  
Ph0411 Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.  
Ph0412 I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.  
Ph0413 I can do all things through him who strengthens me.  
Ph0414 Yet it was kind of you to share my trouble.  
Ph0415 And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving, except you only.  
Ph0416 Even in Thessalonica you sent me help for my needs once and again.  
Ph0417 Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that increases to your credit.  
Ph0418 I have received full payment, and more. I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.  
Ph0419 And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.  
Ph0420 To our God and Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.  
Ph0421 Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.  
Ph0422 All the saints greet you, especially those of Caesar’s household.  
Ph0423 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.  
Co0101 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,  
Co0102 To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.  
Co0103 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,  
Co0104 since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,  
Co0105 because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel,  
Co0106 which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth,  
Co0107 just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf  
Co0108 and has made known to us your love in the Spirit.  
Co0109 And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,  
Co0110 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;  
Co0111 being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy;  
Co0112 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.  
Co0113 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,  
Co0114 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.  
Co0115 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.  
Co0116 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.  
Co0117 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.  
Co0118 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.  
Co0119 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,  
Co0120 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.  
Co0121 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,  
Co0122 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,  
Co0123 if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.  
Co0124 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,  
Co0125 of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,  
Co0126 the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints.  
Co0127 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.  
Co0128 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.  
Co0129 For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me.  
Co0201 For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face,  
Co0202 that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ,  
Co0203 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.  
Co0204 I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments.  
Co0205 For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.  
Co0206 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,  
Co0207 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.  
Co0208 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.  
Co0209 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,  
Co0210 and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.  
Co0211 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,  
Co0212 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.  
Co0213 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,  
Co0214 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.  
Co0215 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.  
Co0216 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.  
Co0217 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.  
Co0218 Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,  
Co0219 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.  
Co0220 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations—  
Co0221 “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch”  
Co0222 (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings?  
Co0223 These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.  
Co0301 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.  
Co0302 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.  
Co0303 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.  
Co0304 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.  
Co0305 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.  
Co0306 On account of these the wrath of God is coming.  
Co0307 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.  
Co0308 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.  
Co0309 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices  
Co0310 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.  
Co0311 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.  
Co0312 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,  
Co0313 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.  
Co0314 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.  
Co0315 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.  
Co0316 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.  
Co0317 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.  
Co0318 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.  
Co0319 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.  
Co0320 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.  
Co0321 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.  
Co0322 Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.  
Co0323 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,  
Co0324 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.  
Co0325 For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.  
Co0401 Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.  
Co0402 Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.  
Co0403 At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison—  
Co0404 that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak.  
Co0405 Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.  
Co0406 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.  
Co0407 Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord.  
Co0408 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts,  
Co0409 and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.  
Co0410 Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, and Mark the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you have received instructions—if he comes to you, welcome him),  
Co0411 and Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only men of the circumcision among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.  
Co0412 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.  
Co0413 For I bear him witness that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and in Hierapolis.  
Co0414 Luke the beloved physician greets you, as does Demas.  
Co0415 Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house.  
Co0416 And when this letter has been read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and see that you also read the letter from Laodicea.  
Co0417 And say to Archippus, “See that you fulfill the ministry that you have received in the Lord.”  
Co0418 I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.  
1h0101 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.  
1h0102 We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers,  
1h0103 remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.  
1h0104 For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you,  
1h0105 because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.  
1h0106 And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,  
1h0107 so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.  
1h0108 For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything.  
1h0109 For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,  
1h0110 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.  
1h0201 For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain.  
1h0202 But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict.  
1h0203 For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive,  
1h0204 but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.  
1h0205 For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness.  
1h0206 Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ.  
1h0207 But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.  
1h0208 So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.  
1h0209 For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.  
1h0210 You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers.  
1h0211 For you know how, like a father with his children,  
1h0212 we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.  
1h0213 And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.  
1h0214 For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,  
1h0215 who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and oppose all mankind  
1h0216 by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last!  
1h0217 But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face,  
1h0218 because we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, again and again—but Satan hindered us.  
1h0219 For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?  
1h0220 For you are our glory and joy.  
1h0301 Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone,  
1h0302 and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,  
1h0303 that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.  
1h0304 For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, just as it has come to pass, and just as you know.  
1h0305 For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.  
1h0306 But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you—  
1h0307 for this reason, brothers, in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith.  
1h0308 For now we live, if you are standing fast in the Lord.  
1h0309 For what thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy that we feel for your sake before our God,  
1h0310 as we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith?  
1h0311 Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you,  
1h0312 and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,  
1h0313 so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.  
1h0401 Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more.  
1h0402 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.  
1h0403 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;  
1h0404 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,  
1h0405 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;  
1h0406 that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.  
1h0407 For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.  
1h0408 Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.  
1h0409 Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,  
1h0410 for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more,  
1h0411 and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,  
1h0412 so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.  
1h0413 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.  
1h0414 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.  
1h0415 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.  
1h0416 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.  
1h0417 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.  
1h0418 Therefore encourage one another with these words.  
1h0501 Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you.  
1h0502 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.  
1h0503 While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.  
1h0504 But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.  
1h0505 For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.  
1h0506 So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.  
1h0507 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.  
1h0508 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.  
1h0509 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,  
1h0510 who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.  
1h0511 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.  
1h0512 We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,  
1h0513 and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.  
1h0514 And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.  
1h0515 See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.  
1h0516 Rejoice always,  
1h0517 pray without ceasing,  
1h0518 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.  
1h0519 Do not quench the Spirit.  
1h0520 Do not despise prophecies,  
1h0521 but test everything; hold fast what is good.  
1h0522 Abstain from every form of evil.  
1h0523 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.  
1h0524 He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.  
1h0525 Brothers, pray for us.  
1h0526 Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.  
1h0527 I put you under oath before the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers.  
1h0528 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.  
2h0101 Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:  
2h0102 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  
2h0103 We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.  
2h0104 Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.  
2h0105 This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering—  
2h0106 since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you,  
2h0107 and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels  
2h0108 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.  
2h0109 They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,  
2h0110 when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.  
2h0111 To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power,  
2h0112 so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.  
2h0201 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers,  
2h0202 not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.  
2h0203 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,  
2h0204 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.  
2h0205 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?  
2h0206 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time.  
2h0207 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.  
2h0208 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.  
2h0209 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,  
2h0210 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.  
2h0211 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false,  
2h0212 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.  
2h0213 But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.  
2h0214 To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.  
2h0215 So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.  
2h0216 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,  
2h0217 comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.  
2h0301 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you,  
2h0302 and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith.  
2h0303 But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.  
2h0304 And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things that we command.  
2h0305 May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.  
2h0306 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.  
2h0307 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you,  
2h0308 nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.  
2h0309 It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate.  
2h0310 For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.  
2h0311 For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies.  
2h0312 Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.  
2h0313 As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.  
2h0314 If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed.  
2h0315 Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.  
2h0316 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all.  
2h0317 I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. This is the sign of genuineness in every letter of mine; it is the way I write.  
2h0318 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.  
1T0101 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,  
1T0102 To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.  
1T0103 As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine,  
1T0104 nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.  
1T0105 The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.  
1T0106 Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion,  
1T0107 desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.  
1T0108 Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully,  
1T0109 understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,  
1T0110 the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,  
1T0111 in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.  
1T0112 I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service,  
1T0113 though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,  
1T0114 and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.  
1T0115 The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.  
1T0116 But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.  
1T0117 To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.  
1T0118 This charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare,  
1T0119 holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith,  
1T0120 among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.  
1T0201 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,  
1T0202 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.  
1T0203 This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,  
1T0204 who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.  
1T0205 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,  
1T0206 who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.  
1T0207 For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.  
1T0208 I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;  
1T0209 likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,  
1T0210 but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.  
1T0211 Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.  
1T0212 I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.  
1T0213 For Adam was formed first, then Eve;  
1T0214 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.  
1T0215 Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.  
1T0301 The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.  
1T0302 Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,  
1T0303 not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.  
1T0304 He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,  
1T0305 for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church?  
1T0306 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.  
1T0307 Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.  
1T0308 Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.  
1T0309 They must hold the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.  
1T0310 And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless.  
1T0311 Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.  
1T0312 Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.  
1T0313 For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.  
1T0314 I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these things to you so that,  
1T0315 if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.  
1T0316 Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.  
1T0401 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,  
1T0402 through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,  
1T0403 who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.  
1T0404 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,  
1T0405 for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.  
1T0406 If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.  
1T0407 Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness;  
1T0408 for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.  
1T0409 The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance.  
1T0410 For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.  
1T0411 Command and teach these things.  
1T0412 Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.  
1T0413 Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.  
1T0414 Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you.  
1T0415 Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress.  
1T0416 Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.  
1T0501 Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,  
1T0502 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.  
1T0503 Honor widows who are truly widows.  
1T0504 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.  
1T0505 She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day,  
1T0506 but she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.  
1T0507 Command these things as well, so that they may be without reproach.  
1T0508 But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.  
1T0509 Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband,  
1T0510 and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work.  
1T0511 But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry  
1T0512 and so incur condemnation for having abandoned their former faith.  
1T0513 Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not.  
1T0514 So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.  
1T0515 For some have already strayed after Satan.  
1T0516 If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are truly widows.  
1T0517 Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.  
1T0518 For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer deserves his wages.”  
1T0519 Do not admit a charge against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses.  
1T0520 As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear.  
1T0521 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality.  
1T0522 Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others; keep yourself pure.  
1T0523 (No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)  
1T0524 The sins of some people are conspicuous, going before them to judgment, but the sins of others appear later.  
1T0525 So also good works are conspicuous, and even those that are not cannot remain hidden.  
1T0601 Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.  
1T0602 Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things.  
1T0603 If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness,  
1T0604 he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,  
1T0605 and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.  
1T0606 But godliness with contentment is great gain,  
1T0607 for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.  
1T0608 But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.  
1T0609 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.  
1T0610 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.  
1T0611 But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.  
1T0612 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.  
1T0613 I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession,  
1T0614 to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,  
1T0615 which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,  
1T0616 who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.  
1T0617 As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.  
1T0618 They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,  
1T0619 thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.  
1T0620 O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”  
1T0621 for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. Grace be with you.  
2T0101 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,  
2T0102 To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.  
2T0103 I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.  
2T0104 As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy.  
2T0105 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.  
2T0106 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,  
2T0107 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.  
2T0108 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God,  
2T0109 who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,  
2T0110 and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,  
2T0111 for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher,  
2T0112 which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.  
2T0113 Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.  
2T0114 By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.  
2T0115 You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.  
2T0116 May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains,  
2T0117 but when he arrived in Rome he searched for me earnestly and found me—  
2T0118 may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day!—and you well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus.  
2T0201 You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus,  
2T0202 and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.  
2T0203 Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.  
2T0204 No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.  
2T0205 An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.  
2T0206 It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops.  
2T0207 Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.  
2T0208 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel,  
2T0209 for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!  
2T0210 Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.  
2T0211 The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him;  
2T0212 if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;  
2T0213 if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.  
2T0214 Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.  
2T0215 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.  
2T0216 But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,  
2T0217 and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,  
2T0218 who have swerved from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some.  
2T0219 But God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity.”  
2T0220 Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable.  
2T0221 Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work.  
2T0222 So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.  
2T0223 Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.  
2T0224 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,  
2T0225 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,  
2T0226 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.  
2T0301 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.  
2T0302 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,  
2T0303 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,  
2T0304 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,  
2T0305 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.  
2T0306 For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,  
2T0307 always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.  
2T0308 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.  
2T0309 But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.  
2T0310 You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,  
2T0311 my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me.  
2T0312 Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,  
2T0313 while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.  
2T0314 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it  
2T0315 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.  
2T0316 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,  
2T0317 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.  
2T0401 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:  
2T0402 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.  
2T0403 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,  
2T0404 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.  
2T0405 As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.  
2T0406 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.  
2T0407 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.  
2T0408 Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.  
2T0409 Do your best to come to me soon.  
2T0410 For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.  
2T0411 Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry.  
2T0412 Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.  
2T0413 When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments.  
2T0414 Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.  
2T0415 Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message.  
2T0416 At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them!  
2T0417 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.  
2T0418 The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.  
2T0419 Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.  
2T0420 Erastus remained at Corinth, and I left Trophimus, who was ill, at Miletus.  
2T0421 Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus sends greetings to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers.  
2T0422 The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.  
Tt0101 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness,  
Tt0102 in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began  
Tt0103 and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior;  
Tt0104 To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.  
Tt0105 This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you—  
Tt0106 if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.  
Tt0107 For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain,  
Tt0108 but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.  
Tt0109 He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.  
Tt0110 For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.  
Tt0111 They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.  
Tt0112 One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”  
Tt0113 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,  
Tt0114 not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.  
Tt0115 To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.  
Tt0116 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.  
Tt0201 But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.  
Tt0202 Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.  
Tt0203 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,  
Tt0204 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,  
Tt0205 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.  
Tt0206 Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.  
Tt0207 Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,  
Tt0208 and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.  
Tt0209 Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,  
Tt0210 not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.  
Tt0211 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,  
Tt0212 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,  
Tt0213 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,  
Tt0214 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.  
Tt0215 Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.  
Tt0301 Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,  
Tt0302 to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.  
Tt0303 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.  
Tt0304 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,  
Tt0305 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,  
Tt0306 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,  
Tt0307 so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.  
Tt0308 The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.  
Tt0309 But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.  
Tt0310 As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him,  
Tt0311 knowing that such a person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.  
Tt0312 When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.  
Tt0313 Do your best to speed Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way; see that they lack nothing.  
Tt0314 And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful.  
Tt0315 All who are with me send greetings to you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all.  
Pm0101 Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker  
Pm0102 and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:  
Pm0103 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  
Pm0104 I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,  
Pm0105 because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints,  
Pm0106 and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.  
Pm0107 For I have derived much joy and comfort from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you.  
Pm0108 Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,  
Pm0109 yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—  
Pm0110 I appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I became in my imprisonment.  
Pm0111 (Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)  
Pm0112 I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart.  
Pm0113 I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel,  
Pm0114 but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own accord.  
Pm0115 For this perhaps is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back forever,  
Pm0116 no longer as a bondservant but more than a bondservant, as a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.  
Pm0117 So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.  
Pm0118 If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.  
Pm0119 I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.  
Pm0120 Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.  
Pm0121 Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.  
Pm0122 At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I am hoping that through your prayers I will be graciously given to you.  
Pm0123 Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,  
Pm0124 and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.  
Pm0125 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.  
Hb0101 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,  
Hb0102 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.  
Hb0103 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,  
Hb0104 having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.  
Hb0105 For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”?  
Hb0106 And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.”  
Hb0107 Of the angels he says, “He makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire.”  
Hb0108 But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom.  
Hb0109 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.”  
Hb0110 And, “You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands;  
Hb0111 they will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment,  
Hb0112 like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end.”  
Hb0113 And to which of the angels has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?  
Hb0114 Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?  
Hb0201 Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.  
Hb0202 For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,  
Hb0203 how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard,  
Hb0204 while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.  
Hb0205 For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.  
Hb0206 It has been testified somewhere, “What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you care for him?  
Hb0207 You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,  
Hb0208 putting everything in subjection under his feet.” Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.  
Hb0209 But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.  
Hb0210 For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.  
Hb0211 For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers,  
Hb0212 saying, “I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”  
Hb0213 And again, “I will put my trust in him.” And again, “Behold, I and the children God has given me.”  
Hb0214 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,  
Hb0215 and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.  
Hb0216 For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham.  
Hb0217 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.  
Hb0218 For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.  
Hb0301 Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,  
Hb0302 who was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s house.  
Hb0303 For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses—as much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself.  
Hb0304 (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.)  
Hb0305 Now Moses was faithful in all God’s house as a servant, to testify to the things that were to be spoken later,  
Hb0306 but Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.  
Hb0307 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,  
Hb0308 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,  
Hb0309 where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.  
Hb0310 Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’  
Hb0311 As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”  
Hb0312 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.  
Hb0313 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.  
Hb0314 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.  
Hb0315 As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”  
Hb0316 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses?  
Hb0317 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?  
Hb0318 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?  
Hb0319 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.  
Hb0401 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.  
Hb0402 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.  
Hb0403 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.  
Hb0404 For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”  
Hb0405 And again in this passage he said, “They shall not enter my rest.”  
Hb0406 Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,  
Hb0407 again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”  
Hb0408 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on.  
Hb0409 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,  
Hb0410 for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.  
Hb0411 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.  
Hb0412 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.  
Hb0413 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.  
Hb0414 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.  
Hb0415 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.  
Hb0416 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.  
Hb0501 For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed to act on behalf of men in relation to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.  
Hb0502 He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness.  
Hb0503 Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own sins just as he does for those of the people.  
Hb0504 And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, just as Aaron was.  
Hb0505 So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”;  
Hb0506 as he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”  
Hb0507 In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.  
Hb0508 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.  
Hb0509 And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,  
Hb0510 being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.  
Hb0511 About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.  
Hb0512 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,  
Hb0513 for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.  
Hb0514 But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.  
Hb0601 Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,  
Hb0602 and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.  
Hb0603 And this we will do if God permits.  
Hb0604 For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit,  
Hb0605 and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come,  
Hb0606 and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.  
Hb0607 For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.  
Hb0608 But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.  
Hb0609 Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things—things that belong to salvation.  
Hb0610 For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.  
Hb0611 And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,  
Hb0612 so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.  
Hb0613 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,  
Hb0614 saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.”  
Hb0615 And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.  
Hb0616 For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.  
Hb0617 So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath,  
Hb0618 so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.  
Hb0619 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,  
Hb0620 where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.  
Hb0701 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,  
Hb0702 and to him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace.  
Hb0703 He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.  
Hb0704 See how great this man was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils!  
Hb0705 And those descendants of Levi who receive the priestly office have a commandment in the law to take tithes from the people, that is, from their brothers, though these also are descended from Abraham.  
Hb0706 But this man who does not have his descent from them received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.  
Hb0707 It is beyond dispute that the inferior is blessed by the superior.  
Hb0708 In the one case tithes are received by mortal men, but in the other case, by one of whom it is testified that he lives.  
Hb0709 One might even say that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid tithes through Abraham,  
Hb0710 for he was still in the loins of his ancestor when Melchizedek met him.  
Hb0711 Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron?  
Hb0712 For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well.  
Hb0713 For the one of whom these things are spoken belonged to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar.  
Hb0714 For it is evident that our Lord was descended from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.  
Hb0715 This becomes even more evident when another priest arises in the likeness of Melchizedek,  
Hb0716 who has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the power of an indestructible life.  
Hb0717 For it is witnessed of him, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”  
Hb0718 For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness  
Hb0719 (for the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God.  
Hb0720 And it was not without an oath. For those who formerly became priests were made such without an oath,  
Hb0721 but this one was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever.’”  
Hb0722 This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant.  
Hb0723 The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office,  
Hb0724 but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever.  
Hb0725 Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.  
Hb0726 For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.  
Hb0727 He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.  
Hb0728 For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever.  
Hb0801 Now the point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,  
Hb0802 a minister in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not man.  
Hb0803 For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; thus it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer.  
Hb0804 Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law.  
Hb0805 They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”  
Hb0806 But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.  
Hb0807 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.  
Hb0808 For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,  
Hb0809 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.  
Hb0810 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  
Hb0811 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.  
Hb0812 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”  
Hb0813 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.  
Hb0901 Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness.  
Hb0902 For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place.  
Hb0903 Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place,  
Hb0904 having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron’s staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.  
Hb0905 Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.  
Hb0906 These preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties,  
Hb0907 but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people.  
Hb0908 By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing  
Hb0909 (which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper,  
Hb0910 but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.  
Hb0911 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)  
Hb0912 he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.  
Hb0913 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,  
Hb0914 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.  
Hb0915 Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.  
Hb0916 For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established.  
Hb0917 For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive.  
Hb0918 Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.  
Hb0919 For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,  
Hb0920 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.”  
Hb0921 And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship.  
Hb0922 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.  
Hb0923 Thus it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.  
Hb0924 For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.  
Hb0925 Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own,  
Hb0926 for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.  
Hb0927 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,  
Hb0928 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.  
Hb1001 For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.  
Hb1002 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?  
Hb1003 But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.  
Hb1004 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.  
Hb1005 Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me;  
Hb1006 in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.  
Hb1007 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”  
Hb1008 When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law),  
Hb1009 then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second.  
Hb1010 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.  
Hb1011 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.  
Hb1012 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,  
Hb1013 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.  
Hb1014 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.  
Hb1015 And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,  
Hb1016 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,”  
Hb1017 then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”  
Hb1018 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.  
Hb1019 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,  
Hb1020 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,  
Hb1021 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,  
Hb1022 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.  
Hb1023 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.  
Hb1024 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,  
Hb1025 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.  
Hb1026 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,  
Hb1027 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.  
Hb1028 Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.  
Hb1029 How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?  
Hb1030 For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”  
Hb1031 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.  
Hb1032 But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,  
Hb1033 sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.  
Hb1034 For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.  
Hb1035 Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.  
Hb1036 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.  
Hb1037 For, “Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay;  
Hb1038 but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”  
Hb1039 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.  
Hb1101 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.  
Hb1102 For by it the people of old received their commendation.  
Hb1103 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.  
Hb1104 By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.  
Hb1105 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.  
Hb1106 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.  
Hb1107 By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.  
Hb1108 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.  
Hb1109 By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.  
Hb1110 For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.  
Hb1111 By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.  
Hb1112 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.  
Hb1113 These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.  
Hb1114 For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.  
Hb1115 If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return.  
Hb1116 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.  
Hb1117 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,  
Hb1118 of whom it was said, “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”  
Hb1119 He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.  
Hb1120 By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau.  
Hb1121 By faith Jacob, when dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bowing in worship over the head of his staff.  
Hb1122 By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, made mention of the exodus of the Israelites and gave directions concerning his bones.  
Hb1123 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.  
Hb1124 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,  
Hb1125 choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.  
Hb1126 He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.  
Hb1127 By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.  
Hb1128 By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.  
Hb1129 By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned.  
Hb1130 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.  
Hb1131 By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.  
Hb1132 And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets—  
Hb1133 who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,  
Hb1134 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.  
Hb1135 Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.  
Hb1136 Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.  
Hb1137 They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated—  
Hb1138 of whom the world was not worthy—wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.  
Hb1139 And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised,  
Hb1140 since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.  
Hb1201 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,  
Hb1202 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.  
Hb1203 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.  
Hb1204 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.  
Hb1205 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.  
Hb1206 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”  
Hb1207 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?  
Hb1208 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.  
Hb1209 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?  
Hb1210 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.  
Hb1211 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.  
Hb1212 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,  
Hb1213 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.  
Hb1214 Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.  
Hb1215 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;  
Hb1216 that no one is sexually immoral or unholy like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.  
Hb1217 For you know that afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no chance to repent, though he sought it with tears.  
Hb1218 For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest  
Hb1219 and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them.  
Hb1220 For they could not endure the order that was given, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.”  
Hb1221 Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I tremble with fear.”  
Hb1222 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,  
Hb1223 and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,  
Hb1224 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.  
Hb1225 See that you do not refuse him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape if we reject him who warns from heaven.  
Hb1226 At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.”  
Hb1227 This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain.  
Hb1228 Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,  
Hb1229 for our God is a consuming fire.  
Hb1301 Let brotherly love continue.  
Hb1302 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.  
Hb1303 Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.  
Hb1304 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.  
Hb1305 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”  
Hb1306 So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”  
Hb1307 Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.  
Hb1308 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.  
Hb1309 Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.  
Hb1310 We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat.  
Hb1311 For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.  
Hb1312 So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.  
Hb1313 Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.  
Hb1314 For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.  
Hb1315 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.  
Hb1316 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.  
Hb1317 Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.  
Hb1318 Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things.  
Hb1319 I urge you the more earnestly to do this in order that I may be restored to you the sooner.  
Hb1320 Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,  
Hb1321 equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.  
Hb1322 I appeal to you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.  
Hb1323 You should know that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I shall see you if he comes soon.  
Hb1324 Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who come from Italy send you greetings.  
Hb1325 Grace be with all of you.  
Js0101 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings.  
Js0102 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,  
Js0103 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.  
Js0104 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.  
Js0105 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.  
Js0106 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.  
Js0107 For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;  
Js0108 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.  
Js0109 Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,  
Js0110 and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.  
Js0111 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.  
Js0112 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.  
Js0113 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.  
Js0114 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.  
Js0115 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.  
Js0116 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.  
Js0117 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.  
Js0118 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.  
Js0119 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;  
Js0120 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.  
Js0121 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.  
Js0122 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.  
Js0123 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror.  
Js0124 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.  
Js0125 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.  
Js0126 If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.  
Js0127 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.  
Js0201 My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.  
Js0202 For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in,  
Js0203 and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,”  
Js0204 have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?  
Js0205 Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?  
Js0206 But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?  
Js0207 Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable name by which you were called?  
Js0208 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.  
Js0209 But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.  
Js0210 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.  
Js0211 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.  
Js0212 So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.  
Js0213 For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.  
Js0214 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?  
Js0215 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food,  
Js0216 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?  
Js0217 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.  
Js0218 But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.  
Js0219 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!  
Js0220 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?  
Js0221 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?  
Js0222 You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works;  
Js0223 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.  
Js0224 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.  
Js0225 And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?  
Js0226 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.  
Js0301 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.  
Js0302 For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.  
Js0303 If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.  
Js0304 Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.  
Js0305 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!  
Js0306 And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.  
Js0307 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind,  
Js0308 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.  
Js0309 With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.  
Js0310 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.  
Js0311 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water?  
Js0312 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.  
Js0313 Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.  
Js0314 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.  
Js0315 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.  
Js0316 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.  
Js0317 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.  
Js0318 And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.  
Js0401 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?  
Js0402 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.  
Js0403 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.  
Js0404 You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.  
Js0405 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?  
Js0406 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”  
Js0407 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.  
Js0408 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.  
Js0409 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.  
Js0410 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.  
Js0411 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.  
Js0412 There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?  
Js0413 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—  
Js0414 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.  
Js0415 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”  
Js0416 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.  
Js0417 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.  
Js0501 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.  
Js0502 Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.  
Js0503 Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.  
Js0504 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.  
Js0505 You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.  
Js0506 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you.  
Js0507 Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.  
Js0508 You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.  
Js0509 Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.  
Js0510 As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.  
Js0511 Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.  
Js0512 But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.  
Js0513 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.  
Js0514 Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.  
Js0515 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.  
Js0516 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.  
Js0517 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.  
Js0518 Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.  
Js0519 My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,  
Js0520 let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.  
1P0101 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,  
1P0102 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.  
1P0103 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,  
1P0104 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,  
1P0105 who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.  
1P0106 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials,  
1P0107 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.  
1P0108 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,  
1P0109 obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.  
1P0110 Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully,  
1P0111 inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.  
1P0112 It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.  
1P0113 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.  
1P0114 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,  
1P0115 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,  
1P0116 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”  
1P0117 And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,  
1P0118 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,  
1P0119 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.  
1P0120 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you  
1P0121 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.  
1P0122 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,  
1P0123 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;  
1P0124 for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,  
1P0125 but the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.  
1P0201 So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.  
1P0202 Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—  
1P0203 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.  
1P0204 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,  
1P0205 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.  
1P0206 For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”  
1P0207 So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”  
1P0208 and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.  
1P0209 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.  
1P0210 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.  
1P0211 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.  
1P0212 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.  
1P0213 Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme,  
1P0214 or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good.  
1P0215 For this is the will of God, that by doing good you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish people.  
1P0216 Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.  
1P0217 Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.  
1P0218 Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.  
1P0219 For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly.  
1P0220 For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.  
1P0221 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.  
1P0222 He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth.  
1P0223 When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.  
1P0224 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.  
1P0225 For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.  
1P0301 Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,  
1P0302 when they see your respectful and pure conduct.  
1P0303 Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—  
1P0304 but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.  
1P0305 For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,  
1P0306 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.  
1P0307 Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.  
1P0308 Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.  
1P0309 Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.  
1P0310 For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;  
1P0311 let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.  
1P0312 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”  
1P0313 Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good?  
1P0314 But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,  
1P0315 but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,  
1P0316 having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.  
1P0317 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.  
1P0318 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,  
1P0319 in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison,  
1P0320 because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.  
1P0321 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,  
1P0322 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.  
1P0401 Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,  
1P0402 so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.  
1P0403 For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.  
1P0404 With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;  
1P0405 but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.  
1P0406 For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does.  
1P0407 The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.  
1P0408 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.  
1P0409 Show hospitality to one another without grumbling.  
1P0410 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:  
1P0411 whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.  
1P0412 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.  
1P0413 But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.  
1P0414 If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.  
1P0415 But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.  
1P0416 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.  
1P0417 For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?  
1P0418 And “If the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”  
1P0419 Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.  
1P0501 So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:  
1P0502 shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly;  
1P0503 not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.  
1P0504 And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.  
1P0505 Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”  
1P0506 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,  
1P0507 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.  
1P0508 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.  
1P0509 Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.  
1P0510 And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.  
1P0511 To him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen.  
1P0512 By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I regard him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it.  
1P0513 She who is at Babylon, who is likewise chosen, sends you greetings, and so does Mark, my son.  
1P0514 Greet one another with the kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.  
2P0101 Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:  
2P0102 May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.  
2P0103 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,  
2P0104 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.  
2P0105 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,  
2P0106 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,  
2P0107 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.  
2P0108 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.  
2P0109 For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.  
2P0110 Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.  
2P0111 For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  
2P0112 Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.  
2P0113 I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder,  
2P0114 since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.  
2P0115 And I will make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things.  
2P0116 For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.  
2P0117 For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,”  
2P0118 we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with him on the holy mountain.  
2P0119 And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,  
2P0120 knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation.  
2P0121 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.  
2P0201 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.  
2P0202 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.  
2P0203 And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.  
2P0204 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;  
2P0205 if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;  
2P0206 if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;  
2P0207 and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked  
2P0208 (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard);  
2P0209 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,  
2P0210 and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,  
2P0211 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord.  
2P0212 But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,  
2P0213 suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.  
2P0214 They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!  
2P0215 Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,  
2P0216 but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.  
2P0217 These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved.  
2P0218 For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.  
2P0219 They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.  
2P0220 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.  
2P0221 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.  
2P0222 What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”  
2P0301 This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder,  
2P0302 that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles,  
2P0303 knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.  
2P0304 They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”  
2P0305 For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God,  
2P0306 and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished.  
2P0307 But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.  
2P0308 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.  
2P0309 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.  
2P0310 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.  
2P0311 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,  
2P0312 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!  
2P0313 But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.  
2P0314 Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.  
2P0315 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,  
2P0316 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.  
2P0317 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.  
2P0318 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.  
1J0101 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—  
1J0102 the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us—  
1J0103 that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.  
1J0104 And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.  
1J0105 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.  
1J0106 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.  
1J0107 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.  
1J0108 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.  
1J0109 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  
1J0110 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.  
1J0201 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.  
1J0202 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.  
1J0203 And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments.  
1J0204 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,  
1J0205 but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:  
1J0206 whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.  
1J0207 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.  
1J0208 At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.  
1J0209 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.  
1J0210 Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.  
1J0211 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.  
1J0212 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name’s sake.  
1J0213 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the Father.  
1J0214 I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.  
1J0215 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  
1J0216 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.  
1J0217 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.  
1J0218 Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.  
1J0219 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.  
1J0220 But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.  
1J0221 I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.  
1J0222 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.  
1J0223 No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.  
1J0224 Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father.  
1J0225 And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.  
1J0226 I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.  
1J0227 But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.  
1J0228 And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.  
1J0229 If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.  
1J0301 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.  
1J0302 Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.  
1J0303 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.  
1J0304 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.  
1J0305 You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.  
1J0306 No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.  
1J0307 Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.  
1J0308 Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.  
1J0309 No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.  
1J0310 By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.  
1J0311 For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.  
1J0312 We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.  
1J0313 Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.  
1J0314 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.  
1J0315 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.  
1J0316 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.  
1J0317 But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?  
1J0318 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.  
1J0319 By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him;  
1J0320 for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.  
1J0321 Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;  
1J0322 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.  
1J0323 And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.  
1J0324 Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.  
1J0401 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.  
1J0402 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,  
1J0403 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.  
1J0404 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.  
1J0405 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.  
1J0406 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.  
1J0407 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.  
1J0408 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.  
1J0409 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.  
1J0410 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.  
1J0411 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.  
1J0412 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.  
1J0413 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.  
1J0414 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.  
1J0415 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.  
1J0416 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.  
1J0417 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.  
1J0418 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.  
1J0419 We love because he first loved us.  
1J0420 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.  
1J0421 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.  
1J0501 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.  
1J0502 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.  
1J0503 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.  
1J0504 For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.  
1J0505 Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?  
1J0506 This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.  
1J0507 For there are three that testify:  
1J0508 the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree.  
1J0509 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that he has borne concerning his Son.  
1J0510 Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.  
1J0511 And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.  
1J0512 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.  
1J0513 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.  
1J0514 And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.  
1J0515 And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.  
1J0516 If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life—to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that.  
1J0517 All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.  
1J0518 We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.  
1J0519 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.  
1J0520 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.  
1J0521 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.  
2J0101 The elder to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not only I, but also all who know the truth,  
2J0102 because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:  
2J0103 Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father’s Son, in truth and love.  
2J0104 I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as we were commanded by the Father.  
2J0105 And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.  
2J0106 And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.  
2J0107 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.  
2J0108 Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.  
2J0109 Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.  
2J0110 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting,  
2J0111 for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.  
2J0112 Though I have much to write to you, I would rather not use paper and ink. Instead I hope to come to you and talk face to face, so that our joy may be complete.  
2J0113 The children of your elect sister greet you.  
3J0101 The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.  
3J0102 Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul.  
3J0103 For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth.  
3J0104 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.  
3J0105 Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are,  
3J0106 who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God.  
3J0107 For they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.  
3J0108 Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.  
3J0109 I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.  
3J0110 So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church.  
3J0111 Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.  
3J0112 Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. We also add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.  
3J0113 I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink.  
3J0114 I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face. [15] Peace be to you. The friends greet you. Greet the friends, each by name.  
Ju0101 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:  
Ju0102 May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.  
Ju0103 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.  
Ju0104 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.  
Ju0105 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.  
Ju0106 And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—  
Ju0107 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.  
Ju0108 Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones.  
Ju0109 But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”  
Ju0110 But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.  
Ju0111 Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam’s error and perished in Korah’s rebellion.  
Ju0112 These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;  
Ju0113 wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.  
Ju0114 It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones,  
Ju0115 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”  
Ju0116 These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.  
Ju0117 But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.  
Ju0118 They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”  
Ju0119 It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.  
Ju0120 But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,  
Ju0121 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.  
Ju0122 And have mercy on those who doubt;  
Ju0123 save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.  
Ju0124 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,  
Ju0125 to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.  
Rv0101 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,  
Rv0102 who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.  
Rv0103 Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.  
Rv0104 John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,  
Rv0105 and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood  
Rv0106 and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.  
Rv0107 Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.  
Rv0108 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”  
Rv0109 I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.  
Rv0110 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet  
Rv0111 saying, “Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”  
Rv0112 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands,  
Rv0113 and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash around his chest.  
Rv0114 The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,  
Rv0115 his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.  
Rv0116 In his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.  
Rv0117 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last,  
Rv0118 and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.  
Rv0119 Write therefore the things that you have seen, those that are and those that are to take place after this.  
Rv0120 As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.  
Rv0201 “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands.  
Rv0202 “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.  
Rv0203 I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name’s sake, and you have not grown weary.  
Rv0204 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.  
Rv0205 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.  
Rv0206 Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.  
Rv0207 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’  
Rv0208 “And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life.  
Rv0209 “‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.  
Rv0210 Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.  
Rv0211 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.’  
Rv0212 “And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: ‘The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.  
Rv0213 “‘I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.  
Rv0214 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality.  
Rv0215 So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.  
Rv0216 Therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth.  
Rv0217 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’  
Rv0218 “And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.  
Rv0219 “‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.  
Rv0220 But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.  
Rv0221 I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.  
Rv0222 Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works,  
Rv0223 and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works.  
Rv0224 But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden.  
Rv0225 Only hold fast what you have until I come.  
Rv0226 The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations,  
Rv0227 and he will rule them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father.  
Rv0228 And I will give him the morning star.  
Rv0229 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’  
Rv0301 “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. “‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead.  
Rv0302 Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God.  
Rv0303 Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.  
Rv0304 Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.  
Rv0305 The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.  
Rv0306 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’  
Rv0307 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.  
Rv0308 “‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.  
Rv0309 Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you.  
Rv0310 Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.  
Rv0311 I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.  
Rv0312 The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.  
Rv0313 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’  
Rv0314 “And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation.  
Rv0315 “‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot!  
Rv0316 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.  
Rv0317 For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.  
Rv0318 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.  
Rv0319 Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.  
Rv0320 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.  
Rv0321 The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne.  
Rv0322 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’”  
Rv0401 After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”  
Rv0402 At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne.  
Rv0403 And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald.  
Rv0404 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads.  
Rv0405 From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God,  
Rv0406 and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal. And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind:  
Rv0407 the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight.  
Rv0408 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”  
Rv0409 And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,  
Rv0410 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,  
Rv0411 “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”  
Rv0501 Then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals.  
Rv0502 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?”  
Rv0503 And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it,  
Rv0504 and I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it.  
Rv0505 And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”  
Rv0506 And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.  
Rv0507 And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne.  
Rv0508 And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.  
Rv0509 And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation,  
Rv0510 and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.”  
Rv0511 Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,  
Rv0512 saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!”  
Rv0513 And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”  
Rv0514 And the four living creatures said, “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshiped.  
Rv0601 Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, “Come!”  
Rv0602 And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.  
Rv0603 When he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”  
Rv0604 And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.  
Rv0605 When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand.  
Rv0606 And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!”  
Rv0607 When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!”  
Rv0608 And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed him. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.  
Rv0609 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne.  
Rv0610 They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”  
Rv0611 Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.  
Rv0612 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,  
Rv0613 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.  
Rv0614 The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.  
Rv0615 Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,  
Rv0616 calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,  
Rv0617 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”  
Rv0701 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree.  
Rv0702 Then I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea,  
Rv0703 saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”  
Rv0704 And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:  
Rv0705 12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed, 12,000 from the tribe of Reuben, 12,000 from the tribe of Gad,  
Rv0706 12,000 from the tribe of Asher, 12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali, 12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh,  
Rv0707 12,000 from the tribe of Simeon, 12,000 from the tribe of Levi, 12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,  
Rv0708 12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun, 12,000 from the tribe of Joseph, 12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed.  
Rv0709 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,  
Rv0710 and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”  
Rv0711 And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,  
Rv0712 saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”  
Rv0713 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?”  
Rv0714 I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.  
Rv0715 “Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.  
Rv0716 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat.  
Rv0717 For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”  
Rv0801 When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.  
Rv0802 Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.  
Rv0803 And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne,  
Rv0804 and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.  
Rv0805 Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.  
Rv0806 Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.  
Rv0807 The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.  
Rv0808 The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.  
Rv0809 A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.  
Rv0810 The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.  
Rv0811 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter.  
Rv0812 The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.  
Rv0813 Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, “Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!”  
Rv0901 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.  
Rv0902 He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.  
Rv0903 Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth.  
Rv0904 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.  
Rv0905 They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone.  
Rv0906 And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.  
Rv0907 In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,  
Rv0908 their hair like women’s hair, and their teeth like lions’ teeth;  
Rv0909 they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.  
Rv0910 They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails.  
Rv0911 They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.  
Rv0912 The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.  
Rv0913 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God,  
Rv0914 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”  
Rv0915 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind.  
Rv0916 The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number.  
Rv0917 And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths.  
Rv0918 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.  
Rv0919 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.  
Rv0920 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,  
Rv0921 nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.  
Rv1001 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.  
Rv1002 He had a little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land,  
Rv1003 and called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. When he called out, the seven thunders sounded.  
Rv1004 And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.”  
Rv1005 And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven  
Rv1006 and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay,  
Rv1007 but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.  
Rv1008 Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”  
Rv1009 So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, “Take and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.”  
Rv1010 And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter.  
Rv1011 And I was told, “You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and languages and kings.”  
Rv1101 Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there,  
Rv1102 but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months.  
Rv1103 And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”  
Rv1104 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.  
Rv1105 And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed.  
Rv1106 They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.  
Rv1107 And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,  
Rv1108 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.  
Rv1109 For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,  
Rv1110 and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth.  
Rv1111 But after the three and a half days a breath of life from God entered them, and they stood up on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them.  
Rv1112 Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here!” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them.  
Rv1113 And at that hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.  
Rv1114 The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.  
Rv1115 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”  
Rv1116 And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God,  
Rv1117 saying, “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign.  
Rv1118 The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”  
Rv1119 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.  
Rv1201 And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.  
Rv1202 She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth.  
Rv1203 And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems.  
Rv1204 His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it.  
Rv1205 She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne,  
Rv1206 and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.  
Rv1207 Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back,  
Rv1208 but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.  
Rv1209 And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.  
Rv1210 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.  
Rv1211 And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.  
Rv1212 Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”  
Rv1213 And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.  
Rv1214 But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.  
Rv1215 The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood.  
Rv1216 But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.  
Rv1217 Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.  
Rv1301 And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.  
Rv1302 And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority.  
Rv1303 One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast.  
Rv1304 And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?”  
Rv1305 And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.  
Rv1306 It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven.  
Rv1307 Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation,  
Rv1308 and all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.  
Rv1309 If anyone has an ear, let him hear:  
Rv1310 If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.  
Rv1311 Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.  
Rv1312 It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.  
Rv1313 It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people,  
Rv1314 and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.  
Rv1315 And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.  
Rv1316 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,  
Rv1317 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.  
Rv1318 This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.  
Rv1401 Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.  
Rv1402 And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps,  
Rv1403 and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.  
Rv1404 It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb,  
Rv1405 and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are blameless.  
Rv1406 Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people.  
Rv1407 And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”  
Rv1408 Another angel, a second, followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, she who made all nations drink the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality.”  
Rv1409 And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,  
Rv1410 he also will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.  
Rv1411 And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”  
Rv1412 Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.  
Rv1413 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”  
Rv1414 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.  
Rv1415 And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, “Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.”  
Rv1416 So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped.  
Rv1417 Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.  
Rv1418 And another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.”  
Rv1419 So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.  
Rv1420 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse’s bridle, for 1,600 stadia.  
Rv1501 Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and amazing, seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is finished.  
Rv1502 And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire—and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands.  
Rv1503 And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!  
Rv1504 Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed.”  
Rv1505 After this I looked, and the sanctuary of the tent of witness in heaven was opened,  
Rv1506 and out of the sanctuary came the seven angels with the seven plagues, clothed in pure, bright linen, with golden sashes around their chests.  
Rv1507 And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever,  
Rv1508 and the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.  
Rv1601 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, “Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God.”  
Rv1602 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and harmful and painful sores came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.  
Rv1603 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died that was in the sea.  
Rv1604 The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.  
Rv1605 And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, “Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for you brought these judgments.  
Rv1606 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!”  
Rv1607 And I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!”  
Rv1608 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire.  
Rv1609 They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.  
Rv1610 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in anguish  
Rv1611 and cursed the God of heaven for their pain and sores. They did not repent of their deeds.  
Rv1612 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east.  
Rv1613 And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs.  
Rv1614 For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.  
Rv1615 (“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”)  
Rv1616 And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.  
Rv1617 The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!”  
Rv1618 And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake.  
Rv1619 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.  
Rv1620 And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found.  
Rv1621 And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on people; and they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so severe.  
Rv1701 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters,  
Rv1702 with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.”  
Rv1703 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.  
Rv1704 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.  
Rv1705 And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.”  
Rv1706 And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly.  
Rv1707 But the angel said to me, “Why do you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her.  
Rv1708 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.  
Rv1709 This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated;  
Rv1710 they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while.  
Rv1711 As for the beast that was and is not, it is an eighth but it belongs to the seven, and it goes to destruction.  
Rv1712 And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast.  
Rv1713 These are of one mind, and they hand over their power and authority to the beast.  
Rv1714 They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.”  
Rv1715 And the angel said to me, “The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.  
Rv1716 And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire,  
Rv1717 for God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by being of one mind and handing over their royal power to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.  
Rv1718 And the woman that you saw is the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth.”  
Rv1801 After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory.  
Rv1802 And he called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.  
Rv1803 For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.”  
Rv1804 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;  
Rv1805 for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.  
Rv1806 Pay her back as she herself has paid back others, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed.  
Rv1807 As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.’  
Rv1808 For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.”  
Rv1809 And the kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning.  
Rv1810 They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, “Alas! Alas! You great city, you mighty city, Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”  
Rv1811 And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore,  
Rv1812 cargo of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all kinds of articles of ivory, all kinds of articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble,  
Rv1813 cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.  
Rv1814 “The fruit for which your soul longed has gone from you, and all your delicacies and your splendors are lost to you, never to be found again!”  
Rv1815 The merchants of these wares, who gained wealth from her, will stand far off, in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud,  
Rv1816 “Alas, alas, for the great city that was clothed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, with jewels, and with pearls!  
Rv1817 For in a single hour all this wealth has been laid waste.” And all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off  
Rv1818 and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning, “What city was like the great city?”  
Rv1819 And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out, “Alas, alas, for the great city where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been laid waste.  
Rv1820 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!”  
Rv1821 Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more;  
Rv1822 and the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will be heard in you no more, and a craftsman of any craft will be found in you no more, and the sound of the mill will be heard in you no more,  
Rv1823 and the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.  
Rv1824 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on earth.”  
Rv1901 After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,  
Rv1902 for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”  
Rv1903 Once more they cried out, “Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up forever and ever.”  
Rv1904 And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who was seated on the throne, saying, “Amen. Hallelujah!”  
Rv1905 And from the throne came a voice saying, “Praise our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, small and great.”  
Rv1906 Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.  
Rv1907 Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready;  
Rv1908 it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.  
Rv1909 And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”  
Rv1910 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.  
Rv1911 Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.  
Rv1912 His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself.  
Rv1913 He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God.  
Rv1914 And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses.  
Rv1915 From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.  
Rv1916 On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.  
Rv1917 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, “Come, gather for the great supper of God,  
Rv1918 to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.”  
Rv1919 And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him who was sitting on the horse and against his army.  
Rv1920 And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.  
Rv1921 And the rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.  
Rv2001 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.  
Rv2002 And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,  
Rv2003 and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.  
Rv2004 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.  
Rv2005 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.  
Rv2006 Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.  
Rv2007 And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison  
Rv2008 and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.  
Rv2009 And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them,  
Rv2010 and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.  
Rv2011 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.  
Rv2012 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.  
Rv2013 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.  
Rv2014 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.  
Rv2015 And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.  
Rv2101 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.  
Rv2102 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.  
Rv2103 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.  
Rv2104 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”  
Rv2105 And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”  
Rv2106 And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.  
Rv2107 The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.  
Rv2108 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”  
Rv2109 Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.”  
Rv2110 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,  
Rv2111 having the glory of God, its radiance like a most rare jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.  
Rv2112 It had a great, high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel were inscribed—  
Rv2113 on the east three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates.  
Rv2114 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.  
Rv2115 And the one who spoke with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls.  
Rv2116 The city lies foursquare, its length the same as its width. And he measured the city with his rod, 12,000 stadia. Its length and width and height are equal.  
Rv2117 He also measured its wall, 144 cubits by human measurement, which is also an angel’s measurement.  
Rv2118 The wall was built of jasper, while the city was pure gold, like clear glass.  
Rv2119 The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with every kind of jewel. The first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,  
Rv2120 the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.  
Rv2121 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.  
Rv2122 And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb.  
Rv2123 And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.  
Rv2124 By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it,  
Rv2125 and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.  
Rv2126 They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.  
Rv2127 But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.  
Rv2201 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb  
Rv2202 through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.  
Rv2203 No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.  
Rv2204 They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.  
Rv2205 And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.  
Rv2206 And he said to me, “These words are trustworthy and true. And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take place.”  
Rv2207 “And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.”  
Rv2208 I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me,  
Rv2209 but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”  
Rv2210 And he said to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near.  
Rv2211 Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy.”  
Rv2212 “Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay each one for what he has done.  
Rv2213 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.”  
Rv2214 Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.  
Rv2215 Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.  
Rv2216 “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”  
Rv2217 The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.  
Rv2218 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,  
Rv2219 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.  
Rv2220 He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!  
Rv2221 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.